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Funbox Media has become the new face of defunct publisher Zushi Games. The new company was set up by former Zushi employees and is headed up by managing director Barry Hatch. Funbox will publish a variety of games encompassing a mixture of previous Zushi titles such as Family Gameshow and …

The latest Toy Story game hits retail next month and Disney is expecting it to be ‘an absolute smash hit’. As the follow-up to 1999’s movie sequel, Toy Story 3 already has huge backing from Disney with a massive cinema and internet marketing campaign. The global Toy Story property has …

Gameshastra sets up London outfit as it continues to grow reputation

Square Enix has announced that the PC Collector’s Edition version of MMO Final Fantasy XIV will be released in Europe on September 22nd. The standard SKU will hit retail on September 30th. The PS3 version of the game will not be released until March 2011, with pricing to be announced …

Following five months of decline, the UK games market has finally posted a year-on-year increase. The launch of Red Dead Redemption helped the UK games market post a sales rise of 12 per cent last month when compared to the same period in 2009. But unit sales were down slightly …

The value of the UK games market rose 12 per cent year-on-year in May, boosted by a number of hugely popular multiformat releases. Take-Two’s Red Dead Redemption and EA’s 2010 FIFA World Cup drove sales last month, taking first and second places in the All Formats Top 50 respectively. It was also …

Former EA development director joins studio

Industry trade body voices concerns about the future of in-country development after tax break U-turn

Yes, there’s a problem… Oh no, wait, there isn’t… Apple can’t quite seem to make its mind up about its official line regarding the now infamous iPhone 4 antenna issue. Now BoyGeniusReport has got its hands on Apple’s procedure documents that are given to AppleCare customer service reps tasked with …

Speaking at the GameHorizon Conference today, head of Microsoft Game Studios Peter Molyneux has reportedly unveiled that Fable III will be distributed in an episodic format as well as through retail. The game’s predecessor, Fable II, received an episodic digital release – though that came long after it debuted at …