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Ubisoft has obtained a $13.2 million judgement in a copy and trademark infringement dispute MG Entertainment, the owner of the Bratz dolls. Greenberg Glusker represented Ubisoft in the American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration that led to the judgment. "We are thrilled with the result, and we feel completely vindicated," said …
Read More »GameSpot UK announces record figures
GameSpot UK is now attracting more than 3.5 million unique users within the UK each month, according to an audit conducted by ABC Electronics in December. The figure is the highest in GameSpot UK history, with the vast majority of users accounting for the sites audience. The gaming industry has …
Read More »European Blu-Ray sales hit 2m
Europe has bought 2.37 million Blu-Ray disks since the format went on sale in 2006, achieving the landmark figure faster than it took standard DVD to when it first appeared in 1997. The news comes just three months after the format broke the one million European sales mark in November …
Read More »Torque Wii gets upgrade
Version 1.5 adds Torque Game Builder functionality
Read More »UE3 to aid architects
Epic's engine to licensed for stadium design in the US
Read More »NCsoft profits up
Lineage and Tabula Rasa were the key drivers in NCsoft’s full-year financials, which saw an overall sales drop of three per cent, but an operating profit, pre-tax profit and net profit of 14 per cent, 24 per cent and 18 per cent respectively. Fourth quarter consolidated net sales stand at …
Read More »AUSTRALIA: Dark Sector banned down under
Dark Sector has been refused classification by the OFLC, Australia’s classification board. According to IGN, the third-person action game has been described by the board as a violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome. The violence and aggression inflicted upon the protagonist is of a …
Read More »Introducing the Retail Advisory Board 2008
Gerry Berkley, Woolworths A retail stalwart boasting many, many years of expertise, Berkley has mentored many of today’s most successful retail buyers, earning him the moniker ‘the godfather of games buying’. His first involvement with games was at BHS in the 1980s, dealing with Sinclair Spectrum and C64. After a …
Read More »Spore also heading to next-gen consoles
With a European release date of September 5th being set for EA’s massively hyped Spore on PC, Mac and DS just hours ago, talk has already shifted to the possibility of Will Wright’s epic arriving on other platforms. Spanish site Revogamers quotes an EA rep as saying that the Wii …
Read More »Pandemic working on LOTR title?
A recent analyst report from EA has let slip that recently-acquired development studio Pandemic is working on a Lord of the Rings title, according to Kotaku . Pandemic rose to fame following its sterling work on war zone sandbox title Mercenaries and multiplayer shooter Star Wars: Battlefront. Nothing is known …
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