Game industry business news

London-based games publisher System 3 has announced that the recently departed editor of Future’s Official Nintendo Magazine Chandra Nair has joined the firm as Brand Manager. Nair’s first duty is to develop the publisher’s Ferrari Challenge brand into a market-leading franchise. With 13 years of experience across retail, publishing and …

A leaked memo has reportedly revealed that Home 1.0, the version of Sony’s hyped social networking software that will eventually be released to the public, will become available to closed beta testers tomorrow. CVG reports the memo as reading: 1.0 will arrive in the closed beta this Thursday November 20th …

You can find the original version of this article here. The New Xbox Experience is in the process of being deployed to all Xbox LIVE members, but it will take a few hours for everyone to get the prompt to update to NXE….be patient! In the meantime I thought I …

Undercover multimedia gaming collective goes the way of publisherâ??s casual label; question mark now hangs over Boom Blox 2

MCV understands that THQ has this week commenced a series of changes to its UK organisation. At this stage no official comment has been made by the company but MCV believes that, as part of a global alignment, a number of UK staff have been placed at risk of redundancy …

Leading global games publisher EA has reportedly closed down its mysterious Blueprint division, an area of the business that was supposedly working on casual-orientated gaming across a range of media. The news comes not long after the departure of EA’s Casual boss Kathy Vrabeck and the merging of the EA …

Nintendo US boss Reggie Fils-Aime has asserted that the majority of third-party publishers don’t get” Wii – and aren’t taking full advantage of the console. And in a frank discussion with Forbes, Fils-Aime also said that Nintendo was nowhere near” the point of cutting the Wii’s price. "I will be …

The director of technology at the soon to be closed Microsoft developer Ensemble Studios has admitted his surprise at the decision to shut the studio down. Ensemble is currently hard at work at the massively anticipated Halo Wars on Xbox 360, though its solid reputation was built on the back …

Studioâ??s director of technology Dave Pottinger admits to staffâ??s surprise at Microsoftâ??s decision

The games side of Namco Bandai’s business reported a fall in profits, dropping 92.4 per cent over the firm’s second quarter. The fall saw profits slip to $3.4 million from $45.5 million. Games revenue also dipped to $319 million from $385 million. Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit, Super Robot Wars …