Game industry business news

Some say that licensed games have enjoyed their time in the sun, but Atari has proved many naysayers wrong with news that licensed action outing Ghostbusters: The Video Game has sold over 1m copies in North America. Of course, unlike in Europe where all non-PS3 owners are having to wait …

Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, whose releases were previously planned for Ubisoft’s third fiscal quarter, will now be released in the fourth fiscal quarter – which means an early 2010 release. Ghost Recon and I am Alive, which were previously scheduled for release in the fourth fiscal quarter, …

Certain publishers continue to dodge paying royalties, claims Icon Games

Ubsioft has reported that sales for the first quarter of 2009-10 came to €83 million, down 50.6 per cent (or 50.8% at constant exchange rates) compared with the €169 million recorded for the same period of 2008-09. First-quarter sales for 2009-10 came in 12.6 per cent below the company’s guidance …

As another month draws to a close, it’s easy to loose track of the various conferences, expos and consumer shows. For that reason, to keep you abreast of all the essential diary dates, MCV bring’s you a round up of the forthcoming events and conferences. Keep an eye out on …

DSGi is to step up of its renewal and transformation programme with 120 stores to be refitted by the end of 2009. According to Mobile Today, around 120 stores will be refurbished throughout its portfolio under the ‘Get Connected’ theme, with 15 of those expected to be Currys.digital outlets. The …

Namco Bandai Partners has announced that Ghostbusters will arrive in Europe on October 26th for Xbox 360, DS, PC and Wii. The titles were originally scheduled for release in June, before Sony secured publishing rights for the PlayStation games – forcing the other SKUs to get pushed back. Ghostbusters was …

Speaking exclusively to MCV, popular games journalist Gary Cutlack has expressed his sadness at the demise of UK blog publisher Shiny Media. ”The death of Shiny makes me sad rather than angry,” he said in a blog piece written for MCV. ”Never once did Shiny sell a ‘proper’ advert on …

I wasn’t expecting it to last, though. My previous noisy start-up experience was with Computec Media UK which, much like Shiny, started off making all the right sexual sounds about throwing its money around, hiring all the best people regardless of salary demands and changing various industry landscapes. Then budgets …

EA’s solid work in successfully bringing new games IP Dead Space to the market last year tastes that bit sweeter for the US publisher today with news that the franchise is to be spun-off into a Hollywood movie. Variety reports that D.J. Caruso has been drafted in to direct the …