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Activision 'cuts at least a quarter of studio workforce'

The European Court of Justice has fined Activision Blizzard €1m (845,000) for raising the price of games. Nintendo and seven distributors were originally fined €167.8m (1.4m) collectively for fixing console and game prices between 1991 and 1997. One of which is Activision Blizzard Germany – formerly known as CD-Contact Data. …

Staff say their goodbyes in an emotional outpouring on Twitter

Capcom, Sega and Namco have each sunk the price of their iPhone games just days after EA and Gameloft announced similar sales ploys. The move will add further grief to indie iPhone developers who, hitherto, distinguished themselves favourably from the big publishers with low price points. But now the publishing …

Sarah Kaye will be Tesco’s new senior buying manager for video games, the retailer has announced. She will take the role from Monday, February 28th.Kaye joined the supermarket giant in June last year as buying manager for games. The sales exec was recruited from Call of Duty publisher Activision, where …

iOS edition of Trinigyâ??s tech to be displayed at GDC

Reviews aggregation site Metacritic has named Take-Two as the most critically successful publisher of 2010. The company emerged with a review score average of 77.1 per cent, thanks mainly to the strong reception given to Red Dead Redemption (95 per cent) and Sid Meier’s Civilization V (90 per cent). The …

This husband and wife team are out to earn a living from the indie dream

UK developer said to be exploring options amid mass staff cull

We’ve known that a dedicated premium online version of Call of Duty has been in the works for some time now, but Activision’s confirmation that a brand new studio is working on the title certainly came as a surprise. But details of both the game itself and the people behind …