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PS Vita got short shrift during Sony’s E3 presentation, but don’t mistake that for a lack of energy behind the new handheld. According to Sony, the firm focused on just three big brands heading to Vita – Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty and YouTube – to prove the device’s star …
Read More »NASSCOM Gaming Forum’s 2nd Hyderabad meet-up in July
The NASSCOM Gaming Forum is heading to Hyderabad on 7th July for its second developers’ meet. On the agenda is a talk on publishing games on Steam by Vinnie Reddy, CEO of BlueGiant Interactive. The Hyderabad-based studio is currently working on its new PC strategy title – Tryst, and self-published …
Read More »Alleged Xbox leak No.3 – Xbox Surface
Another supposed leak from Microsoft suggests that an Xbox tablet, called ‘Xbox Surface’, is very much in the works. A detailed 56-page document claiming to detail the next generation of Xbox (codenamed Xbox 720) was revealed to the world yesterday. This was shortly followed by claims of a new Microsoft …
Read More »EA Origin’s first year "a huge success"
A year after EA first unleashed its digital download service Origin, the company’s senior VP of global e-commerce David DeMartini has christened its first 12 months as a huge success”. When you consider where we started from, which we kind of say was a standing start, we’ve got 12m downloads …
Read More »THQ Warrington founder forms games consultancy
GamesWISE to offer business advice to investors and developers
Read More »Former GAME boss says UK retail "isn’t properly managing customers"
Ian Shepherd has said that UK retailers are routinely failing to correctly manage their customers. I’ll go out on a limb and assert that there is no retailer in the UK properly managing its customer base, including the ones I’ve worked in,” he wrote on his blog Moving Tribes. That’s …
Read More »Report: Draw Something TV show in the works
Television network CBS acquires rights to new series
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 returns to No.1
The excitement of Euro 2012 has no doubt played a big part in FIFA 12’s return to the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track this week. It would be fascinating to know how many of those customers forked out the additional 15 for the Euro 2012 DLC, too. It’s the …
Read More »Tesco abandons Japanese dream
The significant Japanese aspirations of retail giant Tesco appear to be over. Reuters reports that the supermarket chain has sold 50 per cent of its business to Japan’s second largest retailer Aeon Corp for a nominal sum. Tesco currently operates 117 stores in the country since paying 32.8bn for the …
Read More »Take-Two’s Zelnick "sceptical" about Wii U
One major games publisher has admitted that he remains to be convinced about the prospects of core games titles on Nintendo’s Wii U. As it always does when a new generation is approaching, Nintendo has made big noise about the presence of core IP on its upcoming machine, with Ubisoft …
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