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The MMO is potentially the most lucrative genre in the world. There are over 11.5 million subscribers to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, while the Chinese MMO market is expected to reach $5.5bn by the end of the year (according to Pearl Research). But for every Lord of the Rings Online, …

The MMO is potentially the most lucrative genre in the world. And in the coming years there are some major new MMOs due for release, from APB, to Star Trek Online, past Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dust 514, The Agency, Warhammer 40,000 Online, Guild Wars 2, DC Universe Online …

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The MMO genre is a challenging and congested sector, with a series of big name MMOs due out over the next couple of years. So what do the MMO developers need to do to grow the market? Should developers and publishers look away from the PC and towards the home …

US web entrepreneur and blogger Jason Calacanis has been spending the morning tweeting details about Apple’s new tablet device, which he claims Apple gave him ten days ago. All of this is open to speculation, of course, and should be taken with a rather large pinch of salt. The real …

Marvelous Entertainment will make dramatic cuts to the wages of its key executives and staff, reports suggest. Company CEO Haruki Nakayma will reduce his wages by 77 per cent, with directors hit by a 25-43 per cent salary cut. And according to news site Siliconera, other executives at the firm …

Ubisoft has revealed Red Steel 2 will be available bundled with the Wii MotionPlus add-on when it arrives this March. The publisher has also confirmed the game will be released in Europe on March 26th, three days after its launch in the US. The MotionPlus SKU was revealed in Ubisoft’s …

Going gets tough for the multimedia outfit as CEO salary is cut by 77%

PS3’s days as a piracy-free platform are under threat with the news that famed hacker George Hotz has publicly released the details of the exploit he uncovered over the weekend. Hotz had previously claimed to have found a way to gain read/write access to the console’s system memory and HV …