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LittleBigPlanet developers to reflect on anticipated title's development

Business Review On 29 February 2008 we announced a restructuring plan and concluded that our focus should be on cornerstone franchises in order to optimise returns on these titles. The key aspects of the new business plan are as follows: Fundamental change in business structure The Group’s business structure has …

In an interview with British daily broadsheet The Guardian , current EA Sports boss and the ex head of hardware for both Xbox 360 and Sega has admitted that it was he who made the final decision to pull Sega out of the hardware market. We had a tremendous 18 …

SCi Entertainment’s Board has recommended that the firm changes its name to Eidos PLC. According to CEO Phil Rogers: The Board feels that it would be beneficial to align the name of the listed Company to the strong product brand that Eidos represents in order to benefit from a single …

Following a recent article from renowned Xbox 360 insider Dean Takahashi concerning the saga of Xbox 360’s hardware troubles, a Microsoft employee who spoke about the saga openly and on the record has been let go by the company. Takahashi’s article, entitled ‘Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s …

UK developer Criterion has announced on the US PlayStation blog that a massive update is to be made available to Xbox 360 and PS3 owners of Burnout Paradise free of charge this Thursday. The standout feature is the addition of bikes to the game, opening up a brand new licence …

Eidos parent SCi Entertainment suffered a 99.1 million overall EBITDA loss in FY 2008, an increase on the 13.3 million posted a year before – but slightly under the 100m loss the company previously forecast . In what CEO Phil Rogers said was a year to transform the business”, the …

A report showing that EA’s PC hit Spore is suffering from unusually high numbers of illegal downloads has been blamed on the fact that EA has implemented stern digital rights management restrictions on its game. Spore’s DRM prevents the game being installed more than three times – a problem for …

China isnâ??t just the country with the higest population, itâ??s also a major player in the games industry. Lai Ke Yan offers up a glimpse into the marketâ?¦

According to Chinese research firm Niko Partners, Chinaâ??s 46 million gamers spent $1.7 billion on online games in 2007, up 71 per cent from 2006.