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Empire Interactive is to resurrect the popular puzzle title, Pipe Mania on a broad variety of platforms. The original Pipe Mania was initially published in 1989, and achieved sales of over four million units worldwide. It appeared on a multitude of formats, including Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, …
Read More »Now Marvel ends deal with Microsoft
Marvel Entertainment has agreed to end development of an MMO title it has been working on with Microsoft – reigniting rumours that the comic giant is making a unilateral move into video games. The company ended a similar deal with EA last month, which encouraged industry analysts to tell MCV …
Read More »Daily Telegraph slams Byron Review
A prominent opinion piece in today’s Daily Telegraph has slammed Gordon Brown for employing Dr. Tanya Byron to carry out her investigation into the availability of violent video games. Telegraph writer Jim White largely defends the industry in his editorial – albeit with some questionable assumptions (‘[games] are overwhelmingly the …
Read More »Now Netflix abandons HD-DVD
In a further blow to Toshiba’s beleaguered HD-DVD hi-def disc format, giant US DVD rental service Netflix has announced that it to phase out the format this year in favour of Sony’s Blu-Ray format. Tech blog Engadget says the mail rental service cites the dissipating studio support of HD-DVD as …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Nintendo UKs David Yarnton
Current industry darling Nintendo has had a storming year, with Wii overtaking 360’s UK installed base and DS hitting five million sales on these shores and 65 million worldwide. Speaking exclusively to MCV, Yarnton reveals Nintendo’s plans for the year ahead and insists that the platform holder is doing all …
Read More »Viacom and Take 2 strike global deal
Take 2’s 2K Play label has signed up to handle the global release of pre-school products from Viacom’s Nickelodeon division. The three-year deal is an extension of a current agreement between the two firms, and will see DS, PS2 and Wii titles released across the Northern America, Asia and Europe. …
Read More »Far Cry 2 devs pleased with PS3 development
Ubisoft Montreal has said that the PS3’s unique architecture has proved a good fit for the technology behind its upcoming Far Cry 2 – though says that it has taken a lot of effort to get used to the machine. "We were somewhat worried by some of the reported high …
Read More »Gears of War 2 team takes shape
IGN reports that the former head of EA Chicago, Kudo Tsunoda, has been appointed by Microsoft to head up its Game Studios Gears of War team as thoughts turn to the follow up to its smash-hit 360 and PC title. Microsoft Game Studio’s Shane Kim said of the news: "I’m …
Read More »Apple ready to storm games market?
Apple has long been linked with a possible, and indeed probable, move into the mobile games space – and news of some new games-specific trademarks filed by the firm indicate that the company may be on the brink of announcing something. Trademork.com reports that Apple recently filed to protect its …
Read More »Eurogamer hits 1.8m unique users
Eurogamer has seen over 1.8 million unique users as of November 30th 2007, with almost 15 million page impressions. The European-based consumer site undergoes an annual audit by ABC Electronic, with the latest figures representing a 500,000 year-on-year increase. The audit is the first since Eurogamer added new German and …
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