Publishing

So where was the MCV Award for Activision? After the success of Black Ops, the team from Stockley Park were bound to go home with something shiny, right? Nope. These days, even publishing the biggest selling game doesn’t guarantee anything. And that just about sums up where the games business …

EA walked away with the coveted Best Games Publisher title at tonight’s MCV Awards event in London. It marks an impressive double for the company which also claimed tonight’s PR Team award. EA enjoyed a strong 2010 with a host of chart-topping releases and has got off to a flyer …

Microsoft emerged as the champion of the PR & Marketing category at tonight’s MCV Awards. The Xbox 360 platform holder claimed three prizes – Best Trade Marketing Team, Best New Games Brand for Kinect title Dance Central and Best Use of Social Media for iOS app Fable III: Kingmaker. It …

Big name studios and publishers sign up to this year's show in Cologne

Trion Worlds’ ambitious online RPG Rift will be digitally distributed across Eastern Europe. TripleACodes will handle the game’s downloadable client and subscriptions. Eastern Europe is PC dominant and it’s hungry for MMOs right now,” said TripleACodes’ sales director Marcus Whitney. Rift is a perfect fit for our markets. It further …

The cyberwar declared on Sony by online activists Anonymous has been temporarily suspended, the group has confirmed. Sony yesterday admitted for the first time that revert outages to both its range of websites and PSN were caused by hostile actions. "We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behaviour …

The founder of abandoned studio Bizarre Creations has broken silence on the swift collapse of the longstanding Liverpool stronghold. Martyn Chudley, who established Bizarre in 1995, that the studio’s culture had been tainted after publishing empire Activision acquired the group in 2007. We were always proudly independent," he told Edge …

THQ’s UFC fitness game is due in June, the firm has confirmed. Today the publisher has announced the game officially for the first time – although it actually told investors (and therefore the media) the game was coming back at E3 2010 in June.UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System …

New DX11 features; improved engine front-end; mobile game enhancements

A sequel to 2005 console and PC hit Sniper Elite is on the way next year from publisher 505 Games. Called Sniper Elite V2, the title is being developed by UK studio Rebellion whose other hits include Aliens vs Predator, Star Wars: Battlefront and Rogue Trooper – as well as …