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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has detailed a restructuring of its its sales teams. In a move that will ‘bring closer alignment to the sales and supply chain teams within the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group’, the publisher has made two key promotions. Kevin Kebodeaux will lead the new sales organisation …
Read More »Namco sets low price for Titans
Namco Bandai has set the RRP of upcoming action adventure game Clash of the Titans at just 29.99, ahead of the game’s May 28th launch. The movie tie-in is a third cheaper than most PS3 and Xbox 360 multiformat titles which usually have an RRP of 44.99 or 49.99. UK product …
Read More »OPINION: Best Buy means business
Best Buy’s arrival in the UK comes at an ideal moment. The UK’s market value is in the gutter – albeit temporarily – driven down by a mix of a weak release schedule, post-recession caution, a lack of new hardware and the distraction of an election. Games’ heartland UK retailer …
Read More »Briton takes â?¬25k in Vodafone Appstar contest
Local winner goes head to head in European public vote for a share of the â?¬1 million prize fund
Read More »APB hits UK on July 2nd
Realtime World’s MMO APB will hit retailers across Europe on July 2nd, the studio has announced. That’s just a few days after the game hits the US, where it lands on June 29th. The PC game is being distributed by EA and will be into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian …
Read More »Bungie deal wont offset Infinity Ward ills
It’s a solid business deal with one of the most reputable developers in the industry, but the announcement of Activision and Bungie’s ten-year agreement is (almost) as much about PR as it is about profits. Nonetheless, analyst Michael Pachter doesn’t believe the news is enough to completely counter the negative …
Read More »TIGA: 44% of todayâ??s games pass cultural tax test
CEO Wilson says itâ??s easy for games to qualify as culturally British
Read More »Microsoft cans Courier tablet
Microsoft has shelved plans to launch a folding, two-screen touch-screen device, known as Courier. The highly anticipated product has been much discussed in tech blogs and news outlets in recent months. The two-screen tablet was to incorporate touch-screen and pen-based controls. And although Microsoft has never confirmed the existence of …
Read More »Industry preview added to EG Expo
The games industry will get hands-on time with key games at October’s Eurogamer Expo during a preview that’s closed off to the public. Organisers of the three-day event have also added a special two-hour preview to the show. Eurogamer Expo runs from October 1st to 3rd at Earls Court, but …
Read More »Bungie unfazed by PS3 ‘challenge’
Arguably the biggest aspect to Bungie’s deal with Activision today isn’t that the Halo-creator has signed with the publisher embroiled in an ugly legal spat over treatment of its studios. No, it’s the fact that the once Xbox-exclusive studio has changed focus to a new IP that will be released …
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