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MMO publisher NCsoft has banished the memories of a financially challenging 2008 with an impressive start to 2009 – net income for the quarter ending March 31st was up 315 per cent year-on-year, reaching $27m. Operating income jumped 128 per cent at $34.3m, whilst sales hit $107.7 per cent – …

Industry's most bankable studios list causes a stir - but where's your studio?

2009 event promises stronger focus on connected games

Parappa the Rapper and Flower creators latest additions to July event

Famed producer enlisting elite talent in Halo 3 producer Jim Veevaert and ex-Ubisoft exec Jay Cohen

XBLAâ??s first General Manager and PopCap VP Greg Canessa is set to join the World of Warcraft studio

With the fifth game in the series having recently arrived at UK retail, North American publisher Majesco Entertainment has revealed that total sales of the franchise in the region have now passed the 4m unit mark. To read the full story, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.

Tiga CEO Richard Wilson has told Develop that Westminster is once again taking narrow-minded” measures, following reports of new funding initiatives for the creative industries. According to trade publication Music Week*, the Department for Work and Pensions will soon be using over half of its 50 million war chest to …

It’s been known for really quite a long time now, but the official announcement of Thief 4, or Thi4f as Eidos would like us to refer to it, will still be enough to excite the masses. The game is already well underway at Eidos Montreal – the same studio handling …

Music sector to get over half of the £50m funds earmarked for the creative industries, no plans yet set for the games business