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High Street retailer Zavvi has heralded a successful first year on the market by announcing strong improvements over the performance of the company it bought out in 2007 – Virgin Megastores. Sales in its online operations increased an impressive 148 per cent over the last twelve months compared to the …

Performance Designed Products (PDP) has acquired In2Games, the British and Hong Kong-based developer of motion sensing gaming technology and upcoming casual title Squeebles In2Games’ technology, Gametrak Freedom, is an ultrasonic 3D motion sensing technology which it claims ‘delivers performance, control and flexibility far in excess of that offered by existing …

Games and IP expert joins creative industries' law firm

Californian Performance Designed Products buys British peripherals developer

Nintendo makes more profits per employee than both investment bank Goldman Sachs and Google, according to survey put together by the Financial Times. Each of the 3,000 staff at Nintendo – most of which work in games development or R&D – will produce $1.6m in profile this year.For the full …

Figures from US sales analyst NPD group have shown that Nintendo’s DS sold more hardware units in August than any machine has ever sold throughout the month in North America. Videogamer reports that DS sold 518,000 units in the territory last month – beating the previous record set by PS2 …

Austin-based Armature signs exclusive, long-term partnership with EA

Publisher Activision Blizzard has vowed to triple the number of Guitar Hero games on the market by 2010, the firm said at its investors gathering yesterday according to Shacknews . Moreso, the number of titles on the market will be doubled by next year. The UK Charts are currently littered …

Special series of features to delve into emergent games development markets in the East

As part of its latest analyst gathering in the US, publisher Activision Blizzard has said that the number of hours ploughed into games such as Call of Duty 4 online is a business opportunity the company can’t ignore. Plus, the firm also sees online premium content as a way of …