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Californian developer Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has axed 41 of its employees, representing a workforce cut of 5 per cent. The SCEA subsidiary cited cost-efficiency as the key reason behind the job losses, though it was not prepared to discuss who had left the studio. SOE is responsible for popular …
Read More »Nominate now for the Games Media Awards
The nominations process for this year’s Games Media Awards is now open You can vote for yourself or your own brand, a colleague or one of your favourite writers or titles. You can vote in as many or as few categories as you like. You don’t need to include any …
Read More »$40m hinges on Blur’s sales performance
Bizarre Creations’ upcoming racer Blur is at the centre of a crucial $40 million payout deal between the Liverpool-based studio and its owning company Activision. Develop has today revealed that Activision paid out $67.4 million in cash to wholly acquire the Project Gotham Racing developer back in 2007. However, an …
Read More »41 staff gone at Sony Online Entertainment
SCEA subsidiary cites cost-efficiency as 5% of staff are handed their notice
Read More »MTV, Microsoft strike landmark Rock Band deal
All musicians given chance to take tracks to Rock Band, submissions to go through XNA
Read More »Epic Diaries: Wolverine
Raven Software sharpens the heroâ??s claws with Unreal Engine 3
Read More »Pay-to-Play debuts on PSN
With new games business models very much at the forefront of people’s attentions right now, an experiment by Sony of Japan could lead to a brand new payment model rolling onto the PlayStation Network. A new version of Yen Gomibako, which was recently released under the title Trash Panic on …
Read More »Microsoft: Blu-ray threw Sony off strategy
Xbox 360 group product manager Aaron Greenberg has stated that Sony’s insistence on selling PS3 on its credentials as a Blu-ray player as much as a games console has knocked the firm off track, allowing Xbox 360 to maintain its momentum. We started in the inner circle, and we’ll continue …
Read More »Chancellor Darling faces game industry
Blitz Games CEO Philip Oliver meets with the man in charge of the UK economy
Read More »Ashes Cricket 2009 coming August
Codemasters has announced that Ashes Cricket 2009 will be released on Friday August 7th. The game is set to hit Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and is the official tie-in to the nPower-sponsored cricket series that is being played right now. As well as a full Ashes mode, featuring …
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