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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 …

Following the surprise news that Future is to refrain from ABCing its games magazines today, the publisher has now confirmed that it has closed independent PlayStation title PSW. Future has told MCV that one member of the magazine’s team has already been assigned a new role within the firm, whilst …

More adult Wii games will be release by Sega despite lacklustre sales of titles such as MadWorld. At least that’s according to the publisher’s Western COO and President Mike Hayes, who told Wired that the Wii’s massive user base makes it a lucrative market for adult games, and that he …