Publishing

Do you have a pic of your sales director doing the dosey doe with Lara Croft? Was your store manager ever snapped burning his Carmageddon POS stuff? Perhaps your MD had his arms round a man dressed as Croc – with a face that said ‘this is definitely going to …

Ubisoft has opened a new business office in Warsaw, Poland. Edge reports that the HQ will focus on growing the firn’s market share in Eastern Europe. The publisher announced the news at Leipzig Games Convention yesterday. Ubisoft Eastern Europe export area manager Rose-Marie Nargaud will head up the office. "Opening …

SCEE is to move into PC games publishing via the distribution of its Sony Online Entertainment division’s new titles, the firm has just announced at Leipzig’s Game Convention event. New MMOs The Agency, DC Universe Online, and Free Realms, all of which are being designed for PC and PS3 – …

Publisher partners with Louisiana Department of Economic Development to create EA Sports testing team

Sony has agrred a deal with Player X to bring its PlayStation IP to mobile for the first time in history. The three-year deal marks the first time Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios has licensed its titles to be published by a third party on mobile. SCE has previously released …

Codemasters, Atari, Reality Pump, Topware and Techland to take 25,000 pirates to court

2K Games has just officially finalised the release date for Bioshock on PS3 – it’ll arrive in North America on October 21st, closely followed by its international release on October 24th. The PlayStation 3 version follows on from the critical and sales success of the Xbox 360 version, and contains …

Management system to provide infrastructure for publisher's 'online plans'

Gareth Edmondson says Ubisoft would match investment in other territories, but only if Government stepped up

Electronic Arts says newly-opened 200-strong India studio can 'enhance the local gaming ecosystem'