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Disney has announced two new High School Musical games for console, due for release around Christmas. High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! for Wii, Xbox 360, PS2 and PC allows players to ‘dance’ along with favourite characters to familiar ‘High School Musical’ songs from all three movies. Players move …
Read More »Xbox looks to RPGs to boost 360 in Japan
Microsoft has unveiled the range of RPG titles it hopes will reverse its fortunes in Sony and Nintendo-loving Japan. At a press event in Tokyo yesterday, Xbox execs introduced a series of titles, which will be released in Japan over the next 18 months. The Xbox 360 is famously struggling …
Read More »UK Treasury promises tax break action
EXCLUSIVE: Brown's Government to 'collect and review' evidence for a production tax credit
Read More »God Of War studio quits PSP
The developer of God Of War: Chains Of Olympus on PSP has announced that it will no longer be making games for the format. Ready at Dawn, which also produced 2006’s Daxter, placed a statement on its website earlier today, which read: ‘With Chains of Olympus going gold in Japan, …
Read More »Tesco suffers from credit crunch in Q1
Tesco has reported a bigger-than-forecast slowdown in sales in its core UK business for its first quarter – particularly in non-food categories. Like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to May 24th rose by 3.5 per cent excluding petrol and new store openings – winding down from the growth of over …
Read More »Ubisoft dev boss predicts even bigger budgets and team sizes in future
Christine Burgess-Quémard Q&A fleshes out targets for studio growth and development acquisitions
Read More »Civilization MMO really intriguing, says Meier
Head of Firaxis Games Sid Meier has said that he finds the prospect of a Civilization MMO ‘really intriguing’ – and hinted that it may soon become a reality. Speaking to readers of GameDaily.biz, Civilization creator Meier also hinted that a game from the series could come to the Wii …
Read More »LucasArts denies halt to internal development
LucasArts has denied previous reports that it will be completely closing its games development studio. The new comes just hours after Shacknews reported that ‘reliable sources’ had confirmed LucasArts would fire a further 100 staff after letting 75-100 staff go last week. Talking to Joystiq, LucasArts rep Margaret Grohne said: …
Read More »New Civilization game announced
Take Two subsidiary 2K Games has announced that a new addition to the Sid Meier’s Civilization series will be released this autumn. Civilization IV: Colonization will be released on PC for Games for Windows and is currently in development at long-term Civ studio Firaxis Games. The title is based on …
Read More »Apple unveils 3G iPhone
Steve Jobs unveiled the 3G iPhone (or iPhone 3G as it’s officially called) at this year’s WWDC event last night, citing the technology as the product’s next challenge. Apple’s top 22 markets (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, …
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