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Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes its Xbox 360 and Zune operations, has announced its first full year of profitable operations, with the fiscal year ending June 30th ’08 bringing $426 million in profit. This compares to the $1.9 billion loss the Division suffered in the previous fiscal year. …
Read More »Channel 4 to join forces with Edinburgh
4Talent Scotland reveals series of sessions to help new talent enter the industry
Read More »Q&A: More on how Activision Blizzard’s merger impacts its studios
CFO Thomas Tippl discusses strategy and plans following the creation of a publishing and development giant
Read More »Blaze announces portable MegaDrive
Gamecheat specialist Blaze has announced a brand new Sega MegaDrive based handheld, which includes 20 16-bit titles built in out of the box. Due out some time this month, the 29.99 device includes headline titles such as Sonic and Knuckles, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Kid Chameleon, Altered Beast, Alex …
Read More »E3 08: Future PSP could have hard drive
With Sony putting plenty of emphasis on its still-blossoming portable machine at this year’s E3, Sony’s American CEO has spoke openly for the first time about his ideas for the platform going forwards. Kotaku reports that speaking to a reporter’s gathering this morning, when asked about the possible introduction of …
Read More »Sony Buzz! competitions are now closed
That’s it folks. The Sony and MCV trade competitions offering up the chance to win Buzz! Quiz TV and Buzz! Master Quiz prizes are now well and truly over. All further entries will be sent to the back of the class. So if you didn’t enter, it’s too late, and …
Read More »GameJacket offers ‘huge audience reach’ through casual games ads
A new company looking to revolutionise the way free online games are monetised is offering core games publishers the chance to promote their products to a huge games-savvy audience. GameJacket is an advanced advertising solution for online games – developers using the system can sign up to the service and …
Read More »Partnertrans UK re-brands to Universally Speaking
Partnertrans UK is to officially unveil its new corporate image and identity – Universally Speaking – at the Develop Conference in Brighton, MCV can reveal. The Cambridgeshire-based QA, localisation and audio specialist is the proud sponsor of Publishing Hero Award at this year’s Develop Industry Excellence Awards, and will be …
Read More »Universally Speaking to sponsor Develop Awards
Newly-rebranded QA and localisation firm to support Publishing Hero award
Read More »Activision Blizzard to suffer job cuts
Following the completion of the Activision and Blizzard merger, the publisher’s CFO Thomas Tippl has revealed to MCV that it is now creating an all-star team” from the staff of the two companies – but admitted that overlaps” will lead to redundancies, and hinted that the sales teams could be …
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