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The world’s biggest media conglomerates will snap up publishers left, right and centre in the coming months – but they would be wasting their time by tapping up Ubisoft. That’s according to Yves Guillemot, who this week told MCV that he was chomping at the bit to take on the …
Read More »Activision reveals record $1.48bn revenues
Activision has announced record financial results for the third fiscal quarter, with net revenues of $1.48 billion. An 80 per cent increase over the previous year, with net income at $272.2 million. Nine month net revenues were $2.3 billion, over $1 billion more than the previous fiscal year. Net income …
Read More »Capello bans England from playing games
The manager of the England football team Fabio Capello has banned his players from playing video games whilst on training duty. Capello, who saw his team beat Switzerland 2-1 in his debut game last night, has put an outright ban on the ‘PlayStation culture’ that he saw as plaguing the …
Read More »US: Mature-rated games on the fall
Whilst the tabloid press may like us to believe that the games industry is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, ESRB stats have shown that Mature rated titles are now accounting for 50 per cent less of the market than they were in 2005. Next-gen quotes ESRB president Patricia …
Read More »Japan: Super Smash Bros dominates
Japan’s hunger for all things Nintendo looks set to continue into 2008 with the news that the firm’s latest Wii outing Super Smash Bros Brawl has sold 820,000 copies in its first week on the shelves. The colourful fighter outsold its nearest rival, Capcom’s PS3 version of its gothic slasher …
Read More »3D Realms on Duke Nukem Forever
2K Games is to bring the latest in the Duke Nukem series to the global market – but is still without a release date for the title. The company will publish Duke Nukem Forever on ‘multiple formats’ according to developer 3D Realms – most likely to include both PS3 and …
Read More »US: 360 HD-DVD price slashed
With many predicting that the hi-def DVD war is fast approaching an end, and an end that will be marked with a Blu-Ray victory, Microsoft has slashed the price of its HD-DVD Xbox 360 drive in North America to $129.99. This represents a discount of $50 – and means that …
Read More »Tabloid aggression would be Prime evil
Gordon Brown’s mug is in stark contrast. There’s the Pillsbury Doughboy chin, for a start. And that moistened, sloppy mini-stroke of a mouth, which looks as if it demands a sodium chloride gobstopper just to stop it dribbling on the PM’s size nines. Why the sudden obsession with the visages …
Read More »Funcom financially strong despite loss
Funcom has suffered declining operating losses, as well as a decline in revenues during the fourth quarter of 2007. The developer of upcoming MMO, Age of Conan, has reported that group operating losses increased from $1 million to $3.1 million in the fourth quarter. The company has also revealed that …
Read More »Double Fusion reveals Spill partnership
Double Fusion has announced a partnership with Spill Group, a generator of online game traffic. The video game advertising provider is set to serve Spill’s Casual Games portals with exclusive open ads for GamesGames.com and GirlsGoGames.com. The partnership includes the sales of pre-and post-roll advertising, custom sponsorships and web inventory, …
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