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Executive vice president promoted to lead PC software specialist

Koch Media has stepped up its focus on Nintendo products by expanding its team to sell into new markets. Three years after launching the Nindie.com division, the company has responded to the recent widening of the supply chain for Nintendo products by increasing its investment in both existing and new …

Eidos has revealed that it is to release a new Lara Croft software bundle on PSP next week, dubbed the Tomb Raider PSP Double Pack. The SKU will include both Tomb Raider: Legend, which was first released in 2006, and Tomb Raider: Anniversary, a remake of Lara Croft’s very first …

OnLive is the brainchild of Mike McGarvey (the onetime global head of Eidos) and Steve Perlman (developer of QuickTime and WebTV). It promises to allow state-of-the art online gaming without users owning a game, or even a console. All you need is a PC or Mac. Or even a TV …

There are just three weeks until this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards, with tickets and tables already close to selling out. The big night takes place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, London. Always a sell-out, the Awards attract over 600 retailers and excutives from the UK games market. …

Ratchet and Clank team working on unannounced PS3 title using Dutch system

Guy de Beer, the CEO of cloud gaming company Playcast, has suggested that OnLive has not been designed to ever become a self-contained games service, but has instead been created with the intention of selling the technology to an established player in the market – with Microsoft named as a …

Cryptic video reveals casual developer's newest title

It’s being coy with the details, but PopCap has finally revealed the title of its brand new casual games franchise – Plants vs. Zombies. The game appears to be a tower defence title where players grow defensive weapons to fend off hoards of the undead attempting to break into player’s …