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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 …
Read More »INTERVIEW – Thomas Tippl
What are the key brands for Activision Blizzard going forward – and will you be concentrating more on picking up licences or launching your own new IP? As a result of this combination we probably now have by far the strongest intellectual property portfolio in the entire industry. Look at …
Read More »E3 08: Trophies on the way to PSP?
Some had speculated that a PSP Trophy announcement was on the cards for E3 – but whilst that didn’t materialise, the possibility of the achievement-like system migrating to Sony’s handheld has now been hinted at. GameSpot reports that in an E3 presentation about Sony’s PSP title Buzz! Master Quiz, producer …
Read More »E3 08: Miyamoto confirms new Pikmin
Not content with developing new instalments to its Mario and Zelda franchises ( we think ) and announcing a brand new Animal Crossing title for Wii, Nintendo has now let it slip that a brand new Pikmin adventure is on the way. Eurogamer reports that at an E3 developer roundtable, …
Read More »E3 08: Ubisofts I Am Alive on show
Ubisoft revealed details of its brand new IP titled I Am Alive at E3 this week. Set for release in spring 2009, the survival-adventure title will be available on current generation consoles. The debut of the trailer took place at the LA event. Set in a devastated Chicago, players have …
Read More »Developers upset over Android treatment
Mobile apps developers threaten to down tools because of, well, bad tools
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