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Atari’s revenues dropped from €92.5m (77.7m) to €41m (34.4m) year-on-year during the nine months ending December 31st. Despite the 55.7 per cent dip in overall revenues, Atari’s online business grew 493.5 per cent during the fiscal period. €18.4m (15.4m) was generated in this area compared to €3.1m (2.6m) the year …

Scottish group Axis Animation behind the highly popular video

Microsoft has teamed-up with Australian pop legend Kylie Minogue on a European marketing push. The firm’s Kinect title – Dance Central – is the headline sponsor of the star’s upcoming Aphrodite: Les Folies European Tour 2011. The partnership will mean the game will be prominent at each of the tour’s …

Calibur11 is promoting its first UK products two months ahead of launch. The new peripherals vendor will enter the market this April with a line of interactive console shells for the Xbox 360. The firm is focusing on its Vault line-up: character-based cases that light up when the console is …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick "seems lost in a time machine perspective of a past business model that will never return". That’s according to IndustryGamers publisher Mark Friedler, who in a scathing editorial says that the publisher’s unwillingness to brach into the casual and social gaming sector is a serious …

Hasbro’s family board game Monopoly can now be played on Facebook online for free. Facebook users can play Monopoly Millionaires in a web browser on PC and invite friends to play together. As usual the aim is to buy hotels across the board and amass the biggest fortune in Monopoly …

Alleged insider describes the post-Halo project as 'WOW in space'

Bungie’s next project is believed to be a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter named Destiny. The nature of its new game universe – which will be published by Activision – was reportedly outed by a source claiming to be an ex-Bungie employee, according to Kotaku. Destiny – allegedly codenamed Tiger” …

UK studio was not involved with axed game

Capcom has been warned by Apple that its hugely popular Smurf’s Village has earned the iPhone manufacturer a significant number of severe complaints. The game has been causing problems with parents, who have complained that their children are spending too much on Smurfberries without their knowledge. The Smurfberries are purchased …