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Read More »Rumours of big job cuts at SOE
Sony Online Entertainment has closed down three of its studios and made sweeping redundancies across the company, according to unsubstantiated rumours. News site Kotaku claims the firm has closed studios in Seattle, Arizona and Denver. The website claimed that nearly one-third” of Sony Online Entertainment had been axed across the …
Read More »Ubisoft granted THQ injunction
THQ has been issued an injunction preventing it from illicitly pulling talent away from a Ubisoft studio in Canada. It has been discovered that Patrice Dsilets, a new THQ employee, had helped target developers working at Ubisoft Montreal who were believed could be convinced to switch employers. Last year, Dsilets …
Read More »Android PlayStation emulator pulled
A PlayStation emulator has been removed from the Andorid Market today – because of the upcoming Xperia Play launch. That’s according to ZodTTD, the developer behind PSX4Droid. The emulator was available to Android phones before it was removed due to content violation”, reports Pocket Gamer. ZodTTD claimed on Twitter he …
Read More »Court blocks THQ from snatching more Ubisoft devs
Legal twists, and bitter accusations, in the battle of the Montreal studio giants
Read More »Marvel vs Capcom 3 ships 2m units
Xbox 360 and PS3 brawler Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds has shipped over 2m copies worldwide. The Capcom game was released in February following an 11-year hiatus for the series. Demand for a sequel was at an all-time high, and expectations were soaring,” read a statement on …
Read More »New 360 discs get 1GB boost
Tech blog Digital Foundry claims to have word that the "updated disc format" being trailed on Xbox 360 adds around 1GB of extra capacity to DVD discs. It says the new standard is called XBG3. Current Xbox 360 discs have a capacity of 7.95GB, though 1.15GB of this is dedicated …
Read More »A farewell to UK Resistance
Popular games journo Gary Cutlack has officially called time on his popular video games blog UK Resistance. The blog, which was a winner at the first ever Games Media Awards in 2007, has for a long time been a favourite amongst industry insiders for its glorious combination of brilliant writing, …
Read More »Molyneux hopes for new Syndicate title
Though we’re no closer to knowing whether or not EA’s long-rumoured Syndicate revamp is actually in the works, the series’ original creator has said he’d love to get involved with the mystery project. Speaking to CVG, current Microsoft Game Studios boss and the founder of Syndicate developer Bullfrog Peter Molyneux …
Read More »Trip Hawkins in trouble with the tax man
A San Francisco judge has rejected Trip Hawkins’ plea to use personal bankruptcy to cancel $20m of tax obligations. According to a Forbes blog, US District Court judge Jeffrey S White has upheld an earlier bankruptcy court ruling related to tax shelters Hawkins used to shield the personal wealth he …
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