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Read More »DSGi attempting second rights issue
DSGi is reportedly looking to raise several hundred million pounds through a rights issue, which would be the second attempt this year. CEO John Browett is expected to give a statement on the firm’s operations after the firm’s financial year end, which will go some way to decided the success …
Read More »Mortal Kombat devs seeking Midway split
Reports are claiming that the development team behind Mortal Kombat franchise are in active talks with other publishers” over a possible split from current publisher Midway and the formation of a new studio. Kotaku reports that the 50-strong team were pushed into the move for, amongst other reasons, the withholding …
Read More »Microsoft: Packaged goods business ‘won’t decline’
Microsoft has told MCV that it sees downloadable content and Xbox Live as a ‘complementary’ addition to boxed product – and that it doesn’t see the packaged goods business declining. However other standout companies have pointed to 2009’s explosion of download-only new releases – which cut out retail altogether. Speaking …
Read More »Inside Strawdog Studios
Develop pays a visit to the Derby independent
Read More »The DSi at retail
Peter Willis – Games Buyer, DSGi "The DS has been a key product for us for the last couple of years and I am sure the DSi will be just as popular. It’s a great fit with our customers and we are anticipating big things. We have one of our …
Read More »Koch Media targets growth
Koch Media has stepped up its focus on Nintendo products by expanding its team to sell into new markets. Three years after launching the Nindie.com division, the company has responded to the recent widening of the supply chain for Nintendo products by increasing its investment in both existing and new …
Read More »Could Microsoft buy OnLive?
Guy de Beer, the CEO of cloud gaming company Playcast, has suggested that OnLive has not been designed to ever become a self-contained games service, but has instead been created with the intention of selling the technology to an established player in the market – with Microsoft named as a …
Read More »‘The gap between game and film tech is rapidly closing’
Ex-Pixar man on the convergence of creating for console and celluloid
Read More »Now Sony voices OnLive scepticism
Sony has become the second platform holder to voice its doubts about the ambitious proposals outlined by streaming games service OnLive. Yesterday, Nintendo’s American boss Reggie Fils-Aime questioned where OnLive would source the kind of killer-games that has seen Nintendo perform so strongly in recent times. Now SCEA’s director of …
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