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Steve Jablonsky contributes theme tune and 'key music' for EA's blockbuster

LittleBigPlanet isn’t even in stores yet – and yet developer Media Molecule has already announced plans for a sequel. Speaking to the BBC on being a British success story, the firm also revealed that it is in negotiations with Sony to expand the franchise to have its own cartoon and …

Why is something that’s effectively a software update being treated as so important by Microsoft? My feeling is that this is our most important day since we launched the Xbox 360. It truly does reinvent the machine. It’s our goal to turn it from a pure games machine to a …

Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to EA’s Army of Two, according to Variety. The US entertainment paper reports that the studio is looking to ‘fast-track’ the project to begin production in 2009 and has set The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer Scott Z. Burns to pen the script. Scott Stuber will …

Ubisoft has announced sales of €344 million for the first half of FY 2008-2009 – the six months to September 30th. Revenues were up 31.5 per cent on the same period in FY 2007-2008 – when Ubisoft recorded €261 million – or 38.3 per cent at constant exchange rates. Second-quarter …

Ubisoft will tomorrow kick-start a national tour of its Imagine games that will see the DS titles promoted to customers at key shopping centres up and down the UK. The Imagine shopping centre tour will show off all 11 of the range’s games, with a bespoke exhibition area that boasts …

Two key staff appointed at fast-growing Brighton studio

Japanese electronics firm Sony has issued a profit warning ahead of its full year financial reports next March – slashing its profit forecasts by 57 per cent in the process. The Times Online reports that Sony had previously predicted full year profits of YEN 470 billion, but this has now …

The reviews for Fable II are in, and according to scores aggregator Metacritic, Peter Molyneux’s masterpiece is doing pretty nicely. The highly-anticipated title, which is released in the UK this Friday, has earned an average 89 per cent from the reviews, which cover both UK and US press. Eurogamer is …

Ahead of its anticipated release at the end of November, Microsoft has lifted the lid on its North American pre-order scheme for Xbox 360 karaoke title Lips. A post on the firm’s Gamerscore blog states that those who pre-order the title through either Amazon or GameStop will receive a free …