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Russian publisher 1C made $1m in revenue from digital sales over Christmas, the firm has told MCV. The revenue was generated through December and the New Year. 1C’s key titles also proved to be big sellers digitally even when shops were closed – 14,000 copies of Kings Bounty: Armored Princess …

Microsoft has announced that it will host an X event in San Francisco next month. X10 is set to take place at the Terra Event Center and will last four hours. Games and hardware set to be on show includes Alan Wake, Splinter Cell, Halo Reach, Natal and Fable III. …

In a move to try and quell the ongoing piracy problem on PC, Ubisoft will require players of a selection of its future PC titles to have a constant connection to the internet. Titles will constantly verify themselves via a connection to Ubisoft’s servers. To spruce up the offering Ubisoft …

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 …