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With the US arrival of September 25th confirmed only this morning, it hasn’t taken Sony Europe long to state that Sony’s PS3 racer WipEout HD will also arrive on Europe’s PlayStation Network next Thursday. The game is an amalgamation of craft and tracks featured in the many previous WipEout games. …
Read More »THQ exec Akmal forms investment firm
GCube Ventures seeking opportunities within the global games field
Read More »Namco Bandai steps up internal technology efforts
Group looking to recruit more programmers to support its game dev teams
Read More »SCi losses increase in transformative year
Eidos parent SCi Entertainment suffered a 99.1 million overall EBITDA loss in FY 2008, an increase on the 13.3 million posted a year before – but slightly under the 100m loss the company previously forecast . In what CEO Phil Rogers said was a year to transform the business”, the …
Read More »EA terminates Take-Two takeover attempt
Riccitiello's acquisition attempt aborted, but Take-Two is still considering "strategic alternatives" with other parties
Read More »Crytek signs for Steam
German studio's Crysis titles on Valve's download service
Read More »Atari: ‘We’ll be a billion dollar distributor’
Namco Bandai’s investment in Infogrames’ European and Asian distribution business will create an entirely new spin-off firm that could bring up to a quarter of the European trade’s games to market. That was the message from Infogrames CEO David Gardner as he revealed his company’s intentions to MCV. Namco Bandai …
Read More »FreeStyleGames acquired by Activision
Acitvision Publishing has strengthened its stable of UK studios with the acquisition of FreeStyleGames. The publisher said the music game talents of the Leamington Spa-based team, which previously worked on original PSP/PS2 title B-Boy (which won the Develop Award for best audio in 2007), attracted it to the studio.For more, …
Read More »US: Monthly growth slows amid credit crunch concerns
Amid a global climate of credit meltdowns and consumer struggles, the US games market continued to grow in August, but its rate of growth has dropped to its lowest in over two years. August sales were nine per cent up on the same month in 2007 – reason to cheer, …
Read More »US: Microsoft hails 600 per cent 360 Arcade sales hike
Microsoft is understandably delighted by its August sales victory over Sony’s PS3 , and has highlighted the massive surge in Xbox 360 hardware sales in early September in its response to NPD’s August US sales figures. Having been crowned the victor in its battle of Sony in August, Microsoft immediately …
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