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Its offering might not yet be quite broad enough to rival some of the more established players in the market, but Microsoft’s MP3player/iPodKiller/portableXbox multimedia device Zune has taken its first tentative steps into the games market with the arrival of a number of 3D games on its digital storefront. The …

Video games distributor Discstribution has gone live with its brand new trade-only website which will allow the firm’s customers faster and more efficient access to stock and special offers. As well as games, the company also offers a range of products including DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray and various gaming accessories, as …

â??Father of PlayStationâ?? forms new business in Tokyo

Perennially popular Geordie duo Ant and Dec have helped Nintendo win a weekly marketing award from UTalkMarketing thanks to their new TV ad campaign for the Wii. The advertisement was named as this week’s UTalkMarketing People’s Choice winner having won over 1,000 of the site’s users, receiving 21 per cent …

Yet a studio handover remains possible with Vancouver focused on Max Payne 3

An admission from American composer Shawn Lee suggests that Rockstar is currently working on a sequel to free-roaming school romp Bully. Speaking to The Gaming Liberty Lee, who composed the soundtracks to both the first Bully and Sony’s The Getaway, stated: It looks like I will be doing the soundtrack …

Next on our tour of Canada, we stop at the Rainbow Six studio...

â??Great technology doesnâ??t help a game thatâ??s not built around that technologyâ?

ELSPA has vowed to throw the book” at individuals that pirate games software and sell it to consumers this Q4. Speaking to MCV, ELSPA director general Michael Rawlinson said that the body’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (IPCU) was already trawling the streets and the internet” to clamp down on criminal …

A total of seven EA-owned studios are alleged to be hit by the publisher’s mass-layoff operations. Pandemic, EALA, Maxis, Rupture Studios, Mythic, Tiburon and Black Box are all thought to be downsized as EA looks to shed 900 developers from its global workforce. EA has declined to comment on where …