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One of the leading figures behind many of LucasArts’ big-hitting Star Wars titles, Isa Anne Stamos, has re-emerged at MMO publisher and developer MindFuse. Industry veteran Stamos has worked in the games industry for 14 years, and has produced a number of top line tiles including Star Wars Episode III: …

Nintendo has sold 8.3 million units of its Wii console in 2008, making it the largest annual home console seller in European history. The figure is a 58 per cent increase over 2007, and takes the total European Wii installed base to 14.2 million units. Nintendo’s DS also broke European …

KOEI has announced Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 in Europe on March 27. Gundam 2 is the latest game in the long-running Dynasty Warriors franchise, a series that is hugely popular in Japan. This version trades in the traditional sword-based battles for armoured …

Cats, Evita and more top stage musicals could all soon have their own video games, as the company in charge of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s most famous brands enters discussions with video games companies. The Really Useful Group, the international musical entertainment company founded in 1977 by Lloyd-Webber, has begun preliminary discussions …

Speakers to address multi-platform potential of social networking sites

Sega and THQ’s annual Business Partners Summit has been retired after two successful years. MCV understands that both companies wanted to find alternative routes to showcase their products to European retail in 2009. Sega has confirmed to MCV that it will be switching support to this year’s less US-centric E3. …

Swedish Space Corporation integrates project management solution

Mock the Week star â??delightedâ?? to present 2009 event

HMV’s buyout of 14 Zavvi stores has saved 269 jobs at the beleaguered entertainment chain, it has emerged. Zavvi administrator Ernst & Young has revealed the locations of the stores – after MCV broke the news yesterday. The nine stores HMV has bought in the UK include one in Crewe, …

There was more doom and gloom on the High Street this morning as two major players in the entertainment retail sector reported significant sales declines over the Christmas period, The Retail Bulletin reports. Argos suffered a 7.5 per cent like-for-like decline in the 18 weeks to January 3rd compared to …