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Future Publishing has announced preliminary results for the year to September 30th – including a healthy year-on-year pre-tax profit rise of three per cent, or 300,000. Overall normalised revenues grew two per cent to 162.9 million, with normalised EBITAE up nine per cent to 14.9 million. The company’s net debt …

Bungie has announced that the highly anticipated Halo 3: Recon is to be renamed Halo 3: ODST. In the game players must control an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), who is on the hunt for his missing squad in the occupied new Mombasa. Bungie wrote on its blog: This new …

Reports are claiming that Nintendo has decided to abandon its traditional red logo and instead adopt the grey version currently seen plastered on the Wii and DS. A press release from the German-based Nintendo Europe reads: For several years, a new generation of Wii and Nintendo DS games have adorned …

Trading in the shares of the Woolworths Group has been suspended on the London Stock Exchange. The company said trading would resume once it had announced whether it would be selling its BBC show distribution service and its chain of retail stores. In a statement, the firm’s Board also confirmed …

Professor Layton and the Curious Village has gone missing from store shelves as Nintendo struggle to supply the sensational demand for its DS hit. The game has sold out online at GAME, HMV, Gameplay, Zavvi and Shopto and stock is limited on the High Street. Consumers are now selling their …

Developer and publisher EA has confirmed that Skate 2 will be released worldwide on Xbox 360 and PS3 on January 23rd. The title builds on the success of the first game by introducing loads of new tricks to the brand, as well as taking gamers to a brand new city. …

Axis Animation MD rallies behind the concept video movement

Woolworths has rubbished reports that it is planning to shut down its retail website. Retail Week reported earlier today that the chain was to stop selling toys online – and that it was eventually planning to take down the site altogether. However, a spokesperson told MCV: Reports that we are …

Hot on the heels of the arrival of the new Community Games digital distribution channel which formed part of Microsoft’s redesigned Xbox 360 UI, one developer has hit out at the platform holder for its rigid online pricing structure, claiming that it undervalues many titles. Click here to head over …

Atari is backing DS release What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver with a TV ad campaign, set to hit TV screens in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Creative agency Rushmore put the 20” ad together, which will go on air to promote the title and hammer home the message that …