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Catalyst's Ivan Davies on getting the most out of outsourcing

It’s official – gaming is cool. And as if that statement of undeniable fact isn’t enough, Apple is seemingly the coolest of them all, having dislodged last year’s winner Aston Martin at the top of the pile. The results come from consumer analyst agency Interactive Brand Profiles, which has just …

Western-facing mega-publisher cutting ties from its native country

A teaser site from publisher Capcom promises that some exciting news for fans of acclaimed battle Street Fighter IV is on the way tomorrow – though question marks remain concerning exactly what the publisher has in store. Leaked images courtesy of JV247.com (pictured) show a brand new character – a …

RTW may move to Ireland - Scotland replies by calling for independence from UK game tax system

Sports Interactive studio head Miles Jacobson has revealed why its console strategy is currently non-existent”, and why the studio is in no rush to create FM games for the Wii, 360 or PS3. Between 2005 and 2007, Sports Interactive had released three Xbox 360 editions of Football Manager, before the …

The games industry will suffer more staff cuts and studio closures unless its ‘core-market’ consoles begin to reach PS2-levels. That was the warning offered by Miles Jacobson, studio head at Sports Interactive. At the moment I don’t think the Xbox 360 or PS3 are completely mass-market devices,” said Jacobson. The …

Brace yourselves, storekeepers: Fischer asserts that the interplay between online and physical retail means that digital gets to ‘premiere’ the riskier or more out-there ideas first. Bricks and mortar is just too hostile an environment for quirky content. He’s not wrong. Whether you have heard of Bonsai Barber or Super …

GoPlay platform looking for new developers

Sony will court iPhone users and gadget fans when the PSPgo hits retail next week. The device, which only plays digital downloads, launches on October 1st priced 224.99 and will be promoted as part of a 6m warchest being spent on the handheld’s 2009 marketing. The PSPgo is positioned differently …