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Koch Media wants to be a global games force, with US success the vital next step for the firm. Deep Silver – Koch’s publishing label – has teamed up with SouthPeak Games to help boost its presence in North America. The US firm will work with Koch on marketing, retail …

Twelve of the 20 top grossing games in the UK App Store this week are based on console or PC brands. In fact, the top four places in the chart are filled with console/PC-derived titles: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars; Rock Band; Broken Sword: Director’s Cut; and Call of Duty: …

The CryEngine vendor studio aims to promote the game sector

Recently acquired studio may be working on seminal PC franchise The Sims

There’s no way of knowing how far off the announcement of a successor to the Wii actually is, but new comments from Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata suggest that when the machine does arrive it will pack more than simply a high-definition upgrade. If asked if making the Wii compatible with …

As buzz builds for the upcoming BAFTA awards night

Japanese publisher Namco Bandai has reported a loss of 81.3m for the nine months ending December 31st 2009 – a sharp drop from the 62.3m profit it saw in the same period the year before. So bad were the results that Namco Bandai has confirmed that it is to shed …

EA’s FIFA 10 will take centre stage at a number of key Carphone Warehouse stores in two weeks time as the retailer kicks off its nationwide ‘Supreme Gamer’ tournament. 32 people from each of the supported areas (Manchester, Ipswich, Exeter, Cardiff, Salisbury, Oxford, Brighton and Hanley) will be selected from …

Tell us what you think about the state of the sector in 2010

Namco Bandai will cut around ten per cent of its workforce in a bid to save the company $38m. Some 630 of its workers will be made redundant, the Tokyo-headquartered group said, as part of a wider measure to save the company an annual $88 million. To read the publisher’s …