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Splash Damage, the independent UK developer, has appointed Richard Ham as creative director.

Publisher EA is to give its NASCAR racing a brand a drastic makeover with the release next February of new Wii racer NASCAR Kart Racing. The firm recently admitted that it has struggled to establish its sports brands on Nintendo’s machine – and the targeted thinking behind this family-friendly reinvention …

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The extent to which the games industry is or is not ‘recession-proof’ will be revealed over time, but two leading industry analysts have warned that casual-centric games firms, and more specifically Nintendo, could be more severely affected than most. To read more, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.

Gaming giant Sega has become the latest established player from the games market to make a move into the casual gaming sector with the launch of its new Flash games portal PlaySega. For the complete story, head over to MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz.

National industry could slip to fifth in global rankings, falling two places in two years

GameStop has denied an MCV report that claimed the company was in the process of tabling a bid for Woolworths’ stores. The news comes after a highly-placed source informed MCV that the company was interested in buying around half of Woolworths’ oustanding 800 outlets from administrator Deloitte. If GameStop was …

The clock is ticking on Sony’s recurrent pledge to release an open beta for its PS3 social network Home by the end of the year – and a report in yesterday’s issue of The Sunday Times suggests that December 17th may be the day. The piece reads: To try Home, …

Sony has announced via the X-Play show on G4TV that Guerilla’s feverously anticipated gritty FPS Killzone 2 will be released in North America on February 27th. And whilst the game remains TBA in all other regions, an SCE UK spokesperson has told Videogamer that Europeans can expect to receive the …

New brand and US studio to target global audience