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Sega has compared the family appeal of its upcoming movie adaptation The Golden Compass to that of The Lord Of The Rings. The publisher is confident that it can use the promotional clout of movie distributor New Line to push the title high up the Christmas chart – and become …
Read More »Flurry of promotions at Nintendo UK
Following its domestic growth and global success, Nintendo’s UK office has handed out a string of promotions across the business. Rob Lowe and James Honeywell – UK product managers for Wii and DS, respectively – have both been made senior product managers. PR supremo Rob Saunders becomes senior UK PR …
Read More »Report claims Warner paid £100m for Traveller’s Tales
Develop reports that EA may have stolen the title of ‘most cash happy acquirer’ last month when it spent big ( $860m big ) to buy BioWare/Pandemic, but it seems Warner Bros wasn’t being tightfisted either when it came to buying Traveller’s Tales. A report on the Manchester Evening News …
Read More »GTA IV still scheduled for Q1 2008
Following his statement that upcoming next-gen title Grand Theft Auto IV will only be released once the developer in utterly convinced” that it is ready, Take 2 chairman Strauss Zelnick has now said that that game will ship by the end of April next year as previously stated. Speaking to …
Read More »Nintendo trails 360 and PS2 in EA revenues
It has been revealed that despite the global dominance of Nintendo’s Wii and DS gaming duo, both the Xbox 360 and the PS2 were more profitable for global publishing giant EA for the quarter ending September 30th – reinforcing concerns that third party publishers are finding it hard to tap …
Read More »Tesco cancels £35 Xbox 360 orders
Quick-thinking retailers and consumers that moved to snap up the Xbox 360 console bundle available for just 33.24 have had their orders cancelled. As reported by MCV yesterday, the offer was available for a short time at the supermarket’s online retail site. Anyone that placed an order was sent the …
Read More »Super Mario Galaxy up for grabs
The Nintendo boys and girls love you so much that they’re offering three of you the chance to win a copy of one of the biggest games of the year, Super Mario Galaxy, just by answering the following, jaw-droppingly simple question: Which English footballing superstar has recently started playing for …
Read More »Nvidia breaks $1 billion revenue barrier
PC Retail reports that Nvidia has posted revenues in excess of $1 billion for a single quarter for its first time ever. The billion per quarter virgins broke through the barrier by a further $12 million. "We are very proud to have achieved our first billion dollar quarter. And, while …
Read More »Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan
Microsoft is celebrating a rare moment of success in Japan where the latest data from Media Create shows that for the week ending November 4th Xbox 360 hardware outsold rival PS3, albeit by just over 200 units, Next Gen reports. 360 sold 17,673 in the period, massively up on the …
Read More »New IP and new Halo on the way from Bungie
MCV sister site Develop reports that Harold Ryan, the man in charge of running Halo-creator Bungie, which recently parted ways with Microsoft to become an independent studio, has revealed that the studio is "actively" working on new non-Halo IPs. In an exclusive interview with Develop, available to read here, Ryan …
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