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MMO publisher NCsoft’s sales rose to 647.9bn South Korean Won (or 360.6m) last year. The consolidated sales increased by two per cent year-on-year, while operating profit rose by four per cent to 242.9bn Won (145.7m). NCsoft broke its own records with Lineage reaching its greatest annual sales ever, generating 181.2bn …

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