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Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has candidly revealed the development cost of the publisher’s biggest games – and questioned the megabucks approach of the firm’s rivals. The revelations came in Cousens’ speech at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this week, in which he made the case for the UK’s strength as a …
Read More »UE3 powers new Brothers in Arms-inspired TV show
New animated series will use assets from Gearbox's WW2 shooter
Read More »Spore to hit the cinema?
EA wants to licence upcoming release Spore for use in movies and TV, the game’s developer Will Wright has stated. "With Spore, we’re looking way outside the game space, such as TV, movies, etc. We’re basically planting the seeds to spread Spore out to a much wider group of people …
Read More »Activision-Blizzard shakedown continues: half of Radical to go
Canadian studio will make 100 staff redundant as part of publishing merger
Read More »Atari Inc posts promising financials
Atari Inc has revealed its financials for the quarter ended June 30th 2008, boasting of vastly improved financial performance. Net revenue for the period was $40.3 million, around four times the $10.4 million posted in the same period last year. Publishing net revenue was $36.7 million, versus $9.7 million in …
Read More »Another new MegaDrive heads to retail
After the announcement of its portable MegaDrive system caused a bit of a stir at the beginning of the month, Blaze is at it again with the launch of another retro MegaDrive machine. Unlike the machine announced at the beginning of the month, which resembled an Atari Lynx and was …
Read More »Crysis Warhead dated
EA has dated the release of its anticipated expansion to the hugely popular PC FPS Crysis – and the surprise news is that Europeans will get access on September 12th, four full days ahead of those in North America. That’s according to Joystiq, who also reports that the title will …
Read More »Suzuki still at Sega
Sega of America CEO Simon Jeffery has clarified comments made this week over the reported departure of development stalwart Yu Suzuki from the company. Jeffery has now corrected those stories, confirming that Yu Suzuki still holds a senior position at the company. "I can safely say that Yu Suzuki is …
Read More »AMD unveils ‘Cinema 2.0’
New tech to offer unparalleled human likeness in real-time
Read More »Activision-Blizzard kills off Scarface 2
Another major planned Sierra release appears to have gone the way of Ghostbusters – with Activision Blizzard making no mention of a sequel to Scarface: The World Is Yours in its confirmed list of adopted Vivendi titles. According to Variety blog Cut Scene – which claims a ‘high level source’ …
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