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Some good news for Disney has come out of this week’s Box Office in the US – as Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian knocks off Iron Man from the top of the charts. Iron Man has been brought to console with some success by Sega, and has steadily moved up …

Take Two’s Board has once again taken the opportunity to tell the world that EA’s $25.74-per-share tender offer ‘undervalues’ the company – and revealed that it is already talking to other interested parties. EA announced this afternoon that it had extended the deadline for acceptance of its bid until Monday, …

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As predicted this morning , Electronic Arts has extended the deadline of its tender offer for Take Two. The last deadline expired at 11.59pm (Eastern Time) on Friday without any response from EA or Take Two’s shareholders. The new deadline gives Take Two’s investors until 11.59pm (Eastern Time) on Monday, …

Action Replay Managing director Steve O’Brien puts the success of his Action Replay store down to his ‘phenomenal’ staff. Although there are no immediate plans for expansion, O’Brien expects to see a huge increase in revenues this year as casual gaming continues to grow the market. Action Replay is one …

The North American president of Ubisoft has revealed that casual games were responsible for 25 per cent of the firm’s $1.5 billion revenue for fiscal year 2007-2008. CasualGaming.biz reports that Laurent Detoc said: "[Casual has been] a good opportunity for us. "People want games that are more accessible and less …

Electronic Arts is expected to extend again the deadline for its hostile tender offer to acquire Take-Two, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning. The deadline for EA’s last bid for the Rockstar parent passed by without any announcement on Friday, but the WSJ believes the Redwood company may …

It’s a phenomenon to top any that our industry has produced before. It is a talking point as much as it is a lucrative product for retail. It’s the swapping of anecdotes which has set forums ablaze with talk of this game – stories involving epic car chases, against-the-odds escapes …

It’s been a bumper year for Activision even before its impending merger with Vivendi – and European boss Joerg Trouvain has told MCV that he is hugely proud of his team’s efforts to push the business forward. As revealed on MCVUK.com this week, the Us publisher reported a $344.9 million …

Phil Harrison’s successor as president of Sony’s worldwide studios operation has been named, with the company choosing SCEA studios boss Shuhei Yoshida to run the format-holder’s global games teams. Yoshida joined Sony Computer Entertainment Interational in 1993, and was one of the initial members in establishing the PlayStation business. Later, …