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2K global president Christoph Hartmann has told MCV that he believes the games industry’s progress will not be halted by the current economic slowdown. In our exclusive interview, Hartmann said that if young people could still afford to spend 500 to go crazy in Ibiza”, games would not be high …
Read More »Talking 2K
How do you think the industry will be affected long-term by the so-called ‘credit crunch’?Traditionally, when the economy does badly, the entertainment market grows. I don’t see why it should be any different this time. The recession is coming, but it’s not only about the sad situation of people worrying …
Read More »Sony to give £10k grants to five new UK studios
Get in the Game victors granted cash to develop new projects for PlayStation formats
Read More »Pikmin and Mario Tennis dated for Wii
Nintendo has announced the UK release date of the first two GameCube titles scheduled to receive the Wii-control makeover treatment – Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis. To find out what they are, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »London is â??the best city in the worldâ? for developers
LONDON FOCUS: Develop profiles the first studios in its week-long focus on the capital
Read More »Wii to topple PS2 from console throne
Following some serious number-crunching of NPD’s latest sales figures for North America, Venture Beat has predicted that Nintendo’s Wii is on track to snatch the PS2’s title of the world’s most successful ever home console – though it also predicts that PS3 is destined to finish third in the current …
Read More »UK to get Killzone 2 PS3 bundle
SCEE has announced that it is to bundle it’s excitedly anticipated FPS Killzone 2 with the PS3 in the UK upon the game’s release at the end of February. Priced at 299.99, the package will include an 80GB PS3 console, one DualShock 3 controller and a copy of the gritty …
Read More »Mythic suffers job losses
It seems that the Mythic Entertainment, the developer of successful PC MMO Warhammer: Online, has become the latest EA-owned studio to face losses as a result of the cost-cutting measures currently being implemented by the North American games publisher. MCV’s sister website Developmag.com has the full story – click here …
Read More »Job losses at Mythic
Warhammer Online developer the latest to be affected by EA cost-cutting measures
Read More »AUSTRALIA: Market jumps by 47 per cent
Australia has become the latest nation to following the footsteps of the UK , USA and Canada (though sadly not Japan ) by reporting impressive rises in the value of its video game industry in 2008. The market reached AUD 1.96bn ($1.3bn) last year, up 47 per cent on 2007. …
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