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Activision has made the claim that its balance sheet is stronger than the US Treasury’s” at its E3 conference last night. The publisher’s chief financial officer Thomas Tippl told investors: We’re the only publisher that developers can count on for being around in the long term. Around $1.5bn was handed …

Rare-created N64 classic now in hands of another UK studio

WoW and Starcraft II resources boosted in time for E3

UK retailer GAME doesn’t just see the Xbox 360 Slim as a chance to sell the console to a wider audience – it wants to sell the console to existing Xbox owners, too. Speaking via Twitter, the retailer stated: Looking for our trade-in deals for the new Xbox? We will …

In the build up to its celebrity studded E3 party last night, Activision confirmed that in just three years it has added an impressive 300 staff to its Call of Duty team. Speaking in the firm’s E3 investor conference call Thomas Tippl, CFO of Activision said: Over the last 3 …

Pre-orders for this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops are already on par with those made for last year’s best-selling Modern Warfare 2. Activision’s chief financial officer Thomas Tippl was speaking to investors at the publisher’s E3 conference last night. He said: Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops are …

Cult Japanese arcade developer Cave, which is famous for its notoriously challenging and collectible shmups, has told Develop of its plans to tailour its creations for an international market. Having released very few home platform titles outside of Japan, the studio behind 2D shooter genre stalwart Dodonpachi recently ported its …

Capcom, Square-Enix, Sega, and Konami building titles for streaming service

We’ve got no surprises left!” That’s what a Sony rep jokingly told MCV last month as rumour upon rumour about possible E3 reveals flooded the internet. But if current talk doing the rounds is to be believed, Sony still has some surprises left for the tonight’s show. VG247 reckons that …

It was just three years ago when organisers ESA radically cut down on the glitz & glamour and bells & whistles of E3 in an effort to reduce the spiralling costs – it’s what all the publishers had told it do to. 12 months later? Publishers were grumpy. E3’s just …