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Square Enix has beefed up its merchandising offer in the UK – with designs on selling toys and figures through all major retailers. The firm established an in-house toys and merchandise offer five years ago, but only last year brought it to Europe, with a range of products rolling out …

A chat with Unity's CCO about the new engine

CEO Helgason says the tech proves â??we can move faster than the restâ??

Activision CEO suggests the Infinity Ward founders used the company for personal gain

It’s something of a chicken and egg thing”. That’s the challenge that Microsoft faces with the Kinect motion camera, according to EA’s European senior VP Jens Uwe Intat. Specifically, the exec thinks that relying on conversation of existing IP and game types to push the appeal of Kinect is a …

ShopTo.net has recorded its single biggest weekly share of the games market in the last 12 months. The retailer recorded a 183 per cent increase in its share of the market compared to the same week in 2009. Chart-Track shows that the market is down 15.6 per cent year-on-year. ShopTo.net …

Bobby Kotick likes Kinect, but he does have one concern with it. For a boss famed for his sharp business sense and sharp attention to profits, can you imagine what that is? With Kinect – I love the idea, but Microsoft has got to get the price down,” he told …

There’s no other exec who provokes quite the same reaction on the pages of MCVuk.com as Activision’s Bobby Kotick. As the head of the most powerful publisher in the world, the hardened businessman is not always a favourite on the site comments. But speaking to Edge magazine, Kotick has admitted …

It’s one of the better known supposed ‘facts’ about Bobby Kotick – he doesn’t like games. But the Activision boss has come out and denied the claims, saying that being a single dad is the only barrier between him and a gaming habit. I don’t even know how that happened!” …

Though its official launch date remains unknown for now, German newspaper giant Bild has slipped a supposed launch date for the machine into a wider story about the device. The paper claims that the 3DS will launch in Japan on November 11th and then in Europe in spring 2011. A …