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Canadaâ??s 37.5 per cent tax relief â??allows us to put all the money on the screenâ??

In what comes across as a somewhat ambitious move, a Brazilian court is seeking an injunction that looks to not only block global sales of GTA IV expansion Episodes from Liberty City but also recall all previously sold units in every country around the world. Kotaku reports that the dispute …

Microsoft shares fell by over 2 per cent on news that its chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, has decided to resign from the group. Ozzie was a key player at the upper echelons of Microsoft, and took over the company’s software role after Bill Gates retired from the group. He …

Publisher THQ has announced that Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Dsilets is to head up its new owned development studio in Montreal. Dsilets’ previous credits also include Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. He will take charge of the new studio in summer of next year and will be tasked …

UK has extraordinary talent, says THQ, but opening studios is about money

ShopTo.net has invested 750,000 in a new five-minute dispatch system. Consumers who buy specific titles from the online games retailer – such as FIFA 11 – will get their items packed in less than five minutes and sent out on the same day. Orders placed after 5:30pm will be sent …

Creative Specialist Freeform.London has tied up with the UK’s premier games conference. The company is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s event, entitled London Games Conference: Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry. The firm joins sponsors Multiplay, AGI, InComm, Virgin Gaming and The Hut, with IGN UK the Platinum Sponsor. …

Xbox 360 was triumphant as video game sales surged in the UK last month, according to GfK Chart-Track. Taking in games sold between Sunday, August 29th and Saturday, October 2nd, the UK games market saw sales rise 23.5 per cent in value and seven per cent in units compared to …

It might be the sixth-biggest software market in Europe, but Spain claims one of the biggest consumer shows for video games – and it’s run by GAME. The first inaugural GAMEFEST 2010 came to a close on Sunday, October 10th, after attracting 40,000 consumers to its show in Madrid. A …

Publisher opens new studio giant in Canadaâ??s subsidy-supported Quebec region