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This year’s Gamescom has pulled in a record amount of exhibitors with 505 companies attending at the Koelnmesse in Germany. Publishers, developers, distributors, accessories firms and more travelled from 33 different countries to make the show. Of these companies 275 are based in Germany while more than 50 made the …
Read More »THQ body slams pre-owned
Mirroring THQ’s strategy with recent fighting release UFC Undisputed 2010, the publisher has confirmed that October’s release WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 will include a DLC code in the box that will be required to access the game’s online mode. In addition, those redeeming their code will also receive the …
Read More »Q2 sales up at GameStop
Video games retailer GameStop has reported a 3.4 per cent increase in overall sales to $1.08bn for the quarter ending June 30th 2010. Like-for-like store sales increased by 0.9 per cent thanks mostly to a 5.3 per cent jump in the sale of new games. Net earnings for the period …
Read More »Games exec joins Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company has announced the appointment of experienced video games executive Giles Jones as its new head of commercial development. His former employers include Ubisoft and LEGO Software and most recently served as the European general manager at The Game Factory. The announcement comes as The Official Charts …
Read More »Hirai rules out download-only PSP2
PlayStation CEO and Chairman Kazuo Hirai says future PlayStation consoles will not be download-only. Speaking in an interview with MCV, Hirai insists Sony’s digital-only PSPgo was a success, despite slow sales of the portable. But the firm has no intention of adopting the download-only model for future PSP consoles. We …
Read More »Codemasters joins RTW rescue attempt
Famed UK studio contacts senior management and administrators at Realtime Worlds
Read More »EA: FIFA will maintain its edge over PES
EA is confident that its flagship FIFA franchise can maintain an edge over Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series. While the two games are coming close to a release date head-to-head, Jens Uwe Intat told MCV at Gamescom this week reiterated that the FIFA games have made year-on-year improvements due to …
Read More »Bioshock Infinite steals the show in Cologne
It isn’t being shown to the thousands of gamers that have descended on Koelnmesse for Gamescom’s public opening today, but talk of the show amongst the trade is Bioshock Infinite. Irrational Games’ second Bioshock title was unveiled to the press two weeks ago in New York but has been flown …
Read More »Studios flock to capture RTW staff
SCEE has sent a team of nine artists, programmers, designers and recruiters to the Apex hotel in Dundee to conduct interviews with affected staff at Realtime Worlds. Over 150 staff at APB studio Realtime Worlds have been made redundant, the firm’s new administrator confirmed yesterday. Along with Blitz, The Creative …
Read More »Respawn hasnt started its EA game
Vince Zampella and Jason West’s Respawn Entertainment has yet to decide exactly what its first game for publisher EA will be. The thing everybody needs to remember is they were starting at absolute zero,” EA Partners boss David DeMartini told Eurogamer. This is two guys who really know what they’re …
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