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Paramount has announced its new SVP of videogames following the departure of Sandi Isaacs last year – former Kuju America boss John Kavanagh. Kavanagh, who was also previously VP of product development at Eidos, will oversee all aspects of Paramount Digital Entertainment’s video game group – which includes development and …

Former Eidos and Kuju man becomes SVP of film studio's video games division

Executive director leaving after almost nine years; hunt begins for a successor

Nintendo’s Wii Fit has secured a third consecutive week at the top of the UK charts this week – its seventh week in total at number one. It has become Nintendo’s second best chart-topper – Pokemon Gold also made it to No.1 a total of seven times in 2001. Wii …

Sweidsh developer to create new game based on Robert Ludlum book

New games based on the Bourne books by Robert Ludlum are to be made by EA. The publisher has forged a deal with Ludlum Entertainment, the company which manages the deceased author’s estate, after Activision-Blizzard jettisoned the licence after acquiring Vivendi Games last year. With the exclusive worldwide licence in …

A new report from brands and marketing agency Vitrue claims that Xbox was the fifth most discussed brand on social networking sites in 2008. The company compiled its results by monitoring online conversations across a number of social networking sites, measuring the frequency in which a number of blue-chip” brands …

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Combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets grew 11 percent in calendar year 2008 to 409.9 million – up from the 367.7 million units recorded in 2007. The data comes in new findings from Top Global Markets, the integrated monthly report from leading providers …