Supply and demand people.  If you're not happy with these prices, don't buy the games. Then companies will either make cheaper games, go out of business or cut game prices.

The British Pound has gone a lot down so they're trying to get their profit margins back.

"I have a bad feeling about this..."

If they raised the price of the less popular games that would make them even less profitable. It's just good business sense to raise the price of the more popular ones.

Even with these price increases, games are still cheaper in UK than in the rest of Europe, so you're still getting a better deal than most.

This does seem outrageous, but then again so did the utterly unprecedented Price Raise for the Wii in the UK.

I really hate piracy, but if these companys want to charge rip off prices for thier games then I say Pirate the games to hell.  No DS game should cost more than £24.99 everr....

^ i agree as if $60 wasnt way to much to begin with im glad i have a modded 360 so i can start burning these games and play them. THe only way im going to keep buying games are if they have AWESOME multiplayer!

Yeah this economy is hitting hard.

So is this hike worldwide or Uk only ^_^
Here's to Piracy, make the gaming industry fuck itself hard with its own greed :D.

agree. Let's teach them a lesson they'll never forget 

Maybe you should blame your politicians for collapsing your currency instead.