Publishing

The new big name and EA HQ will lead EA’s global publishing organization, corporate communications and government affairs, as well as the online, central development and technology teams. Pleasants begins immediately and reports to EA CEO John Riccitiello. EA is billing its new big cheese as ‘a leader in consumer …

Man who discovered Lara Croft says D&D inventor "was one of the most influential people in gaming"

Would you like to see more synergy between music, video and games? How is this achievable? We don’t think of it as synergy, we just think of our audience, what they want to do and how we deliver it to them. We deliver both music and games to them. We …

Entertainment media behemoth MTV is keeping a close eye on the current culture of consolidation at the top level in games – and refused to rule out a move to swoop for a publisher. In an exclusive interview with MCV, conglomerate MTV Newtorks also discusses the ‘definite possibility’ of a …

Chance to add more "great developers" to EA stable has spurred Take 2 takeover attempt says CEO

Take Two’s Board of directors has recommended that its stockholders ‘take no action at this time’ in response to EA’s new $2 billion tender offer. EA announced this morning that it has made an unsolicited conditional tender offer to acquire all of Take-Two’s outstanding shares of common stock for $26 …

Sony is set to buy 2Waytraffic, the independent production company that owns the rights to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. According to BrandRepublic, the deal is valued at 137.5 million. 2Waytraffic was set up in 2004 by former Endemol executives. The firm snapped up the rights to Who Wants …

A new Research and Markets report has forecast that the Mexican video games market could be worth as much as $1 billion by 2010. The review states that the Mexican video game industry is ‘exploding’ and ‘attracting major new marketing investment and luring global game publishers to establish local offices’. …

Ahead of the release of the official North American NPD sales figures for February, Microsoft has conceded that its Xbox 360 was most likely outsold by Sony’s PS3 last month – though only thanks to supply restrictions. Speaking to Reuters, Greenberg claimed: "We definitely expect we will trail in February …

UK Chancellor Alastair Darling has today delivered his Budget – but not included any concessions to the games industry as has previously been demanded by numerous voices in the sector. To read the story in full, head over to MCV’s sister site Develop.