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Early-bird registration open as MIGS prepares keynotes from Valve, Square Enix, Maxis and more

Army of Two: The 40th Day, EA’s follow-up to its surprise 2008 next-gen hit, will no longer be released this year and will instead join the growing number of titles hitting retail in the first quarter of 2010. The game sees original protagonists Salem and Rios venture to Shanghai and …

Start-up devs can enter the Game Connection Europe contest for free

As the fifth annual Montreal International Games Summit fast approaches, event organiser Alliance Numrique has opened early bird registrations for the show. The event, set to launch from November 16-17, will see key speaker sessions from companies such as Maxis, Valve, Square Enix and Media Molecule. Early-bird registration discounts could …

The publisher is confident the Andersson brothers will find their feet

EA Sports has finally solved the dilemma of how to appeal to the female market. That was according to label boss Peter Moore this morning, speaking to delegates at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Discussing the reinvention of EA Sports since his arrival in 2007, Moore said that the firm had …

Market data firm GameVision provided some key insight into the games market in Europe at a talk at the Edinburgh Interactive conference this morning, revealing that €8.5bn was spent on software last year. However the firm said that the widely reported rise of casual and massmarket gamers hasn’t accounted for …

Moore says some EA Sports staff found accepting Wii and mass market audiences too tough

EA Sports president Peter Moore has claimed that the label will become a more important to sports fans than Nike, Adidas, Sky Sports and Fox in future – as it bids to become the world’s leading sports brand”. Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this morning in a loudly applauded …

Former SCEE president and Codemasters chairman Chris Deering told the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that publishers of today’s biggest games should aim for ten million sales – as the ‘winners win big’ from changes in business models. Industry legend Deering cited Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, which he said had sold approximately nine …