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Ubisoft has reported a €41 million drop in annual net profit for FY 2008-2009, despite a 14 per cent rise in revenue to €1.06 billion. Net profit in the 12 months ended March 31st, 2009 fell to €68.8 million from €109.8 million a year earlier. The company attributed the drop …

Speaking exclusively to MCV’s sister CasualGaming.biz as part of its Girl Gaming Month, The Sims 3’s associate producer Grant Rodiek has stated that the game’s development team deliberately houses more females than you’d normally find in such a group. We have a large female presence throughout our team – more …

Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage will be released exclusively on Wii this Christmas, Ubisoft has announced. The game is the sequel to last year’s Shaun White Snowboarding, which sold over three million copies worldwide, and will once again required gamers to use the Wii Balance Board in order to compete …

Amidst the backdrop of ongoing legal tussling, developer Genius Inc has lifted the lid on its own turn table peripheral that will be released alongside Scratch: The Ultimate DJ later this year. Designed by established DJ tech firm Numark, the device appears to be somewhat bulkier than that which will …

Microsoft is to release a second boxed title in its Lips series this October as the franchise continues to wrestle with console-karaoke king SingStar for home gaming supremacy. Lips: Number One Hits will, unlike the business model employed by Sony, include all of the debut release’s tracks on the disc …

Sony has confirmed it will launch a new PS3 hardware bundle across the UK this Friday, as part of the company’s plan to promote the launch of the promising action title inFamous. An SCEE representative confirmed that key UK retailers will be stocking an 80GB PS3 package complete with a …

Ex-THQ studio saved by Massachusetts MMO developer

Company cites â??a number of high profile and very positiveâ?? review scores

The game might not hit retail for six months, but Activision is kick-starting the UK hype for Modern Warfare 2 today – with a premiere for the game during tonight’s Champions League final. The game, sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – one of the best-selling games of …

Latin America’s largest video game event, the Electronic Game Show, will return this year at the Expo Bancomer centre in Santa Fe; one of Mexico City’s key business districts. The event will take place from October 23-25 with companies such as Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Activision and THQ already signing …