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Read More »PSP price cut in Europe
News agency Bloomberg is reporting that Sony has cut the price of the PSP in Europe. The platform holder reduced the price of the machine in the US earlier this year, with many presuming that the shift in strategy was in preparation for the arrival of NGP later this year. …
Read More »Nintendo stock on the fall
The stock market price of Japanese gaming specialist Nintendo has declined for four straight days in a row. The company’s total value has now decreased by over 15 per cent since the end of February. As reported by Andriasang, investment services company Fisco primarily points the finger at the disruption …
Read More »The new £1,500 Cave game
129.99 not expensive enough for you? How about $300? No? How about a brand new version of Cave shooter Akai Katana for 1,500? Yep, thought so. Cult developer Cave has begun selling some of its titles on a PCB board (as they would be supplied to arcades) to home users, …
Read More »MCV AWARDS: Watch the Battlefield trailer that wowed the crowd
A slice of action from Battlefield 3 was debuted to the MCV Awards crowd last night – and you can relive the clip below. Due out on November 2nd, the game is headed for PS3, 360 and PC. It’s a direct sequel to Battlefield 2 and the twelfth game in …
Read More »MTV launches dev unit
345 Games to operate as â??gaming armâ?? of Comedy Central and Spike TV
Read More »Apple blocks new PopCap game
In news that will generate plenty of publicity and surely not cause too much unease at casual giant PopCap, new release Unpleasant Horse has been blocked by Apple. The game is the first release from PopCap’s new satellite studio 4th & Battery, whose self-defined goal is to "quickly try really …
Read More »Now Activisions Nick Grange joins Apple
Apple has poached not one but two of the games industry’s best PR execs – with Activision’s Nick Grange set to join Nintendo’s Rob Saunders at the manufacturer. As with Saunders, Grange’s appointment is yet to be officially confirmed, but MCV understands that he will be joining the company in …
Read More »Ubi: We can beat EA and Activision
Ubisoft’s founder and CEO Yves Guillemot has told MCV that his company can overtake the industry’s two behemoths, Activision and EA, to become the global games market leader. Commenting on the eve of the firm’s MCV Award Grand Prix win, he said that EA selling its stake in Ubisoft last year …
Read More »25 Years of Ubisoft
It is when Yves Guillemot lists the companies that Ubisoft first worked with that you realise just what an achievement it has been to simply survive for 25 years, let alone prosper. He recalls deals with Domark, Elite, US Gold, Telecomsoft and Ocean – all now either defunct, absorbed by …
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