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Ben Feder promotes stricter standards before signing publishing deals

Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles have been complemented with DLC. How is Take-Two approaching this model and what are the benefits to it? First and foremost, downloadable content vastly enhances the gameplay experience for our audience. For example, The Lost and Damned, our first downloadable episode …

Localisation of Wii horror title canned as game remains exclusive to Japan

Danish outfit Deadline Games set to close; board states the developer could not fulfil its financial obligations

Activision Blizzard might not be a member of E3-organiser the ESA, but that hasn’t stopped it from making a bid to, in the word of one insider, ‘own’ the event. E3 starts today with press conferences from publishers and format-holders – but Activision didn’t want to wait. So along with …

E3 '09: New PlayStation Portable puts emphasis on shorter games to attract studios

At its investor briefing today, Activision further detailed its collaboration with superstar musicians Jay-Z and Eminem on DJ Hero- and revealed that a premium SKU featuring their music will also be available at retail. Last week it emerged that the two were to serve as consultants to developer FreeStyle Games …

E3 '09: CEO Kotick kick-starts E3 with bold investor event detailing market growth

E3 '09: Morhaime says community and audience-driven development boost the bottom line

Koch’s Deep Silver publishing label has snapped up the rights to distribute the game based on TV show Prison Break. The game, commissioned in 2007, was cancelled by original publisher Brash – a Hollywood firm which made bold claims about improving the quality of licensed games, only to fail miserably …