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Activision is looking to outstrip EA’s Rock Band with its new Guitar Hero World Tour title. Featuring a newly redesigned guitar, an electronic drum kit and a microphone, the new iteration of the mega-selling franchise also introduces a music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own …

Ahead of the publisher’s quarter century in the business (in June), Capcom has posted strong financial results for the year ending March 31st 2008. Net sales for the firm hit 83 billion Japanese Yen (approx $803m), up 11.5 per cent year-on-year, while net profit increased by a whopping 33 per …

Titantic and Aliens director James Cameron has said that Ubisoft is staying loyal to his forthcoming fully 3D movie Avatar – by creating a game that is visually in stereo”. Cameron’s film, which is due for release next year, takes advantage of stereoscopic (3D-capable) projectors in cinemas. Cameron told Cnet …

This year has been a record breaker in terms of revenues – what do you feel were the key drivers for this success? Our performance was driven by strong market conditions as well as the continued success of our franchise portfolio. You need great products to be successful and we …

Studio that made XBLA game Undertow to remain focused on making games using Unreal Engine 3

The CEO of Deep Silver parent Koch Media has told MCV he is confident that the label can avoid direct competition against the likes of EA, Activision and Ubisoft – and be an independent success. Speaking in a wider interview, Klemens Kundratitz said that the company had to "play our …

Among the many companies in the games space eyeing expansion at the moment is Koch Media – and it may surprise you to learn exactly how ambitious its plans are. While most consider Koch to be simply a software distributor, it is busily setting about overturning that perception to become, …

President Yoichi Wada reiterates long-running expansion plans and bid to grow international empire

The advent of the next generation has meant our world of pre-rendered CG and the world of the real-time video games have been pushed so much closer together. The PS3 is capable of such amazing graphic quality that throughout the whole games industry the bar on production values has been …

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 …