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DICE says sequel to adventurous action title was in development but poor sales scuppered plans

The Blur and Project Gotham studio closes on Friday; what will be its legacy?

FIFA 11 keeps Electronic Arts at the top spot for a second month, and Ubisoft racks up a third consecutive month of growth. Interestingly, EA only outranks Ubi in terms of full-price software – the ongoing success of the Just Dance series makes the latter leader of the budget market. After …

Publisher Namco Bandai is working on Android, iPad, and iPhone versions of its biggest franchises. The news comes as the company finalises the merger of its US boxed games division with its Networks department – which looks after digital and mobile games. Namco Bandai US vice president Carlson Choi says …

With Sony pursuing legal avenues against famed PS3 hacker George ‘Geohotz’ Hotz, the bedroom coder has fought back in an unexpected way – by publishing a confrontational hip-hop piece on YouTube. With lyrics that proclaim himself to be "a personification of freedom for all", Hotz goads Sony into continuing its …

Twenty firms already backing the device; 50 launch games inbound

Almost 11 years on from its Japanese debut in March 2000, Sony’s PlayStation 2 has now passed 150m unit sales across the world. The number was hit on January 31st – ten years and 11 months after its debut. This cements the console’s position as the best selling gaming hardware …

Hopes of a sequel to 2008 first person platform outing Mirror’s Edge appear to have diminished with word from EA-owned developer DICE that the project has been put on hold. In an interview translated from Swedish games site Vicachu, DICE boss Patrick Soderlund says that sales of the first game …

One US analyst has predicted that publisher Take-Two would accept a takeover bid of around $20-$22 per share from rival company Activision. MCV exclusively revealed last Friday that there’s increasing noise about a possible move amongst some of the industry’s highest level execs. And now speaking on Twitter, US analyst …

The shock alliance between Nokia and Microsoft nearly never happened, with the Finnish company admitting that it gave serious consideration to switching to Google Android mobile OS as opposed to Windows Phone 7. "We spent time with our colleagues at Google," CEO Stephen Elop confessed. "It’s an attractive ecosystem, but …