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The year ending March 31st saw a fall in both sales and profits for Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo. Sales hit $380m, though this was 13.8 per cent down on the same period the year before. Profits fell by over $2m to $29m. The numbers are higher than the revised predictions …

A new multiformat golfing title has emerged – O-Games’ John Daly’s ProStroke Golf will hit retail in autumn for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The publisher has signed pro golfer John Daly to front the game which it says allows players to shape and control real golf shots like never …

Composer Joris de Man takes home first game score award at high-profile event

The E3 edition of MCV will launch as a special iPad app next month, kick-starting a brand new digital edition strategy for the leading games industry publication. Available from June 11th, the interactive version of MCV arrives just days after the UK roll out of the Apple device. Leading video …

Google has detailed its new online app store, which is named the Chrome Web Store. Introducing the new rival to Apple’s App Store at the company’s San Francisco I/O developer conference yesterday, Google’s vice president of product management Sundar Pichai demonstrated how flash versions of the likes of Plants vs. …

The industry must work together to address falling software sales by changing the way games are priced and sold. That’s according to Namco Bandai Partners’ vice president and head of sales and marketing Olivier Comte. Speaking to MCV at the publisher’s recent Level Up showcase in Barcelona, Comte said publishers …

Comedian Rufus Hound will host this year’s Develop Industry Excellence Awards. Hound is an upcoming star on the live circuit, and has a permanent seat on panels for TV shows Celebrity Juice and Argumental – although he is perhaps best known for his entertaining parody of Cheryl Cole for Sport …

The organisers of Gamescom in Cologne have confirmed that a handful of places remain from its offer to fly 100 UK retailers over to the event in August. The original deadline for the deal was May 14th but Koelnmesse has decided to extend the offer to fill up the few …

Emerging game engine vendor ties with search engine giant

In the face of one of the most hostile times in the history of games retail, global games retailer GameStop has reported net earnings of $75.2m for its fiscal Q1 ending May 1st 2010 – a jump of 6.8 per cent year-on-year. Total sales were up 5.1 per cent at …