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The flood of bad games – and the damaging effects of piracy – have ruined the software market on Wii and DS according to Namco Bandai’s VP of sales, marketing and publishing Olivier Comte. It’s a tough market,” he told MCV in an exclusive interview. We had a lot of …

Publisher LucasArts has revealed the first details of the Collector’s Edition release of the upcoming Star Wars: the Force Unleashed II. Included in the SKU will be a Mimobot designer 2GB USB flash drive on which users will find a Force Unleashed II digital art book, a transcript of the …

More than 100 million gameplay sessions have been racked up through the Ben 10: Alien Force Game Creator across Europe. Turner Broadcasting also announced that over 300,000 games have been created since the online tool launched on Cartoon Network in the UK back in September 2009. It has also been …

Having already demonstrated its digital ambitions by releasing PSPgo, the world’s first ever digital-only console, could Sony be about to embark on another digital first in the console market? Colin Sebastian of analysts Lazard Capital Market thinks that PSN will play a large part in Sony’s presentation, including a possible …

Associate producer of Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions discusses tech challenges

A few months ago it was one of the hottest rumours in the games industry, but the Xbox 360 Slim seems to have dropped off of the radar – until now. Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian reckons that an appearance for the new machine at E3 next week is …

Kotick wants his franchise to stop â??suckingâ??, while Beenox is looking to match its peers

Nintendo’s official unveiling of its brand new 3DS handheld will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of next week’s E3, but could Nintendo be planning a truly unexpected show-stealing surprise? In his summary document for the LA event, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian claims: We note that Nintendo is …

Great Scott! As if it weren’t enough that Telltale has announced it is working on a series of games based on Jurassic Park, now it has emerged that the developer also has its hands on the Back To The Future licence. The developer will be creating episodic titles based on …

You may be able to watch the World Cup in 3D, but FIFA fans will just have to settle with the standard two dimensions – for now. EA Sports has been experimenting with 3D, as MCV revealed last week, and line producer David Rutter has admitted that a 3D version …