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Future’s new CEO Mark Wood predicts the company will be quite different once it is ‘transition to a digital business model’ is complete. In his statement published with today’s full-year results – ‘disappointing’ numbers that show the US business dragging down UK performance – he said that Future sees opportunity …
Read More »Future looks ahead after ‘disappointing’ results
Future’s full-year results show ‘resilience’ in its UK business – but the US business continues to slow the Group down. So it will merge the two to create "a singleglobal product line". This morning the firm announced that strong digital revenue growth (up 36 per cent) in the UK has …
Read More »Single virtual item ‘makes £1.7m in four days’
Bigpoint delight as â?¬1000 in-game item is sold in the thousands
Read More »FEATURE: Call of Duty’s Modern Art
Whichever way you look at it – the UK/US Day One of 6.5m, or $400m in 24 hours, or 75 copies sold a second – Modern Warfare 3 is a juggernaut. As a Call of Duty game, it was always going to be, of course; there’s probably a graph on …
Read More »Apple begins game subscriptions and streaming
Big Fish offering OnLive-like service for $6.99 per month; iPad only
Read More »Download charts ‘worth the wait’
The UK digital sales charts have been a long time coming, but Sega’s John Clark is confident the industry will be satisfied. The managing director for Sega’s UK arm also heads up the publisher’s digital projects, and has been involved with the creation of the digital charts from the beginning.While …
Read More »GB Eye signs EA poster deal
GB Eye has signed the rights to produce official 2D and 3D posters, stickers, badges and temporary tattoos for EA games Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3. "We’re very pleased to extend the range of gaming merchandise to include not only Dragon Age 3 but also Mass Effect 3,” …
Read More »2003’s Rayman 3 getting HD update
Ubisoft has announced that Rayman 3 is being remade in HD and will receive a digital release on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. The game was originally released in 2003 on PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC. As well as 720p HD visuals, this new version will also run at …
Read More »Independent studio Playground Games joins Tiga
Leamington Spa based developer working on 'big budget' console game
Read More »Industry Fight Club smashes targets
The Namco X Capcom Industry Fight Club Christmas special event has already passed its 5,000 target for charity GamesAid – but there’s time yet to make it an even bigger success. The event takes place on Friday 2nd December at Namco Station, Westminster SE1 7PB. Proceedings kick off at 6pm. …
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