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Casual games specialist PopCap has announced that Rick Fox has become the seventh member of its board of directors. We’re very happy to have Rick join our board of directors, where his decades of entrepreneurial and technology industry leadership will help us take PopCap to the next level,” PopCap CEO …
Read More »Game revenues up at Warner
Media powerhouse Time Warner has reported Q2 revenues of $6.4bn, an eight per cent year-on-year increase and its biggest annual jump since Q2 2008. Its Filmed Entertainment division, which includes Warner Interactive Entertainment, saw revenues increase by eight per cent to $2.5bn. Video games revenues were increased thanks on the …
Read More »New Bungie game made for PS4 and Xbox 3
Bungie has stated that its still mysterious debut game for new partner Activision is being deliberately designed to carry over to a new generation of console hardware. Speaking to CVG, Bungie community director Brian Jarrard explained: I don’t know if developers aren’t ‘ready’ to kick off a new generation of …
Read More »Xbox 360 has a storage problem
The developer drafted in by Konami to work on the upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadows has said that while the game will be shipping on a single Blu-ray disc for PS3, the Xbox 360 SKU will have to be put onto two DVDs. Furthermore, it thinks that the problem is …
Read More »German publisher makes rival takeover bid
Gameforge acquires majority stake in Frogster, seeks to seal ownership
Read More »Gaming arrives on Kindle
Though it’s never likely to emerge as a games platform to rival the likes of iPad or the DS, Amazon has released two games that are compatible with its Kindle ereader device. Shuffled Row and Every Word are both available to download for free right now. Both, unsurprisingly, are word …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet goes digital
Though we’re accustomed to games once exclusive to PSN making the move to retail, Sony has bucked the trend and moved one of its most important retail releases to its digital portal. LittelBigPlanet, which was released in November 2008 on the High Street, will arrive on the UK arm of …
Read More »Nexon hires new chief financial officer
Experienced finance man Owen Mahoney joins Korean studio
Read More »GT5 Signature Edition surfaces
Seeing as the wait for Gran Turismo 5 has been such a long one, Sony is hoping that dedicated fans of the series have had plenty of time to save up for the recently announced 149.99 Signature Edition of the game. Included in the metallic black metal case is a …
Read More »Futures Q3 revenue up 2%
Media group Future has reported what it describes as an encouraging” two per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for its 2010 Q3. Year-to-date revenues for the group are down three per cent however, though this compares favourably with the five per cent dip seen in the first half of the …
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