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Read More »Vivendi UK closes; Activision-Blizzard team finalised
It’s lift-off for Activision Blizzard this week as the majority of Vivendi’s UK staff complete the switch to Activision’s Stockley Park facility. Activision Blizzard’s UK managing director Andrew Brown has told MCV that the new team will come together for the first time this week as Vivendi’s office in Marlow …
Read More »Samsung: Blu-Ray has five years left
Despite its belief that the next few years will bring massive profit to those who’ve invested in Sony’s high-def disc format Blu-Ray, Korean electronics firm Samsung has stated that it thinks Blu-Ray will be dead by 2013. Speaking to Pocket-Lint, Samsung UK’s director of consumer electronics Andy Griffiths stated: I …
Read More »Football Manager 2009 kicks off
Sega has confirmed that Sports Interactive’s Football Manager 2009 will be released on PC, Mac and PSP on November 14th – but there’s bad news for console owners with the confirmation that there’s no Xbox 360 version planned this year. The details were revealed last night at a London press …
Read More »New PSP does NOT have shorter battery life
SCEA’s hardware marketing director John Koller has released a statement correcting claims he made earlier in the week regarding that battery life of the firm’s upcoming PSP 3000. On Monday he stated that the machine’s brighter screen would reduce its operating time by up to 30 minutes – however, a …
Read More »Tecmo rejects Square Enix takeover
Tecmo has released a statement claiming that it has rejected Square Enix’s bid to take over the firm. The statement, translated by Kotaku, reads: For Tecmo, this proposal was received in a short span of time, but within the company we collected opinions from management and game creators as well …
Read More »US: Xbox 360 price drop confirmed
Just hours after analysts predicted a North American price drop , Microsoft has confirmed that is has dropped the RRP on all three of its Xbox 360 SKUs – with the now sub-$200 Arcade pack leading the charge. Coming in below the price of rival Nintendo’s popular Wii, Microsoft has …
Read More »Bethesda: Global censorship variations frustrating
The product manager for Fallout 3 developer Bethesda Pete Hines has said that different sensitivities in different global regions are a source of frustration for the firm, CVG reports. The statement comes after the studio was forced to make a number of changes to its upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG in order …
Read More »Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 blasts into view
Japanese developer and publisher Koei has announced that it is hard at work on Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 for Xbox 360 and PS3. The game offers fundamentally the same formula as is seen in fellow Koei titles Dynasty Warrior and Samurai Legends, but replaces the classical Japanese setting with a …
Read More »Korg DS-10 music synthesizer revealed
The functionality of the DS looks set to be expanded once again with the news that leading music synthesizer company is to release a powerful software package on the machine, entitled Korg DS-10. The software, which has been designed for use by both professionals and amateur’s, will allow musicians to …
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