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Newly established Internal Development team headed by Gary Penn focusing on original ideas

Data from Enterbrain, the publisher and analyst firm behind Japanese games bible and MCV media partner Famitsu, has shown that Japan’s games market in August was down 17 per cent compared to the same month last year. The decline was lead by a 29 per cent drop in hardware sales …

EA has cut the price of the full instrument edition of Rock Band – ahead of the game’s sequel’s release in September. The Instrument Edition of Rock Band will now retail for €139.99 in Europe and 109.99 in the United Kingdom on Xbox 360. The price will also apply to …

After a big hitting week of new releases last week , things are a little calmer this Friday, though there’s still something for owners of any of the next-gen consoles, as well as a couple of treats for portable console owners. The long-awaited PS3, Wii and PS2 versions of EA’s …

Electronic Arts’ UK PR department has pulled off a major coup in the battle between FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer – securing a large news story in best-selling tabloid The News Of The World. Yesterday’s article, which carried the headline ‘Wayne Rooney’s at it five times a night’ informed readers …

Just months after poaching SCE WWS president Phil Harrison from Sony, hiring EA vet David Gardner as CEO and appointing a former Apple exec to its team, the Atari reformation continues – the company has hired SingStar director Paulina Bozek to head up a new online games studio. The new …

Eidos creative director Ian Livingstone has told Edge that the publishers’ re-structuring program is ‘going very well’ after the beleaguered publisher revealed that it would be cutting 25 per cent of its workforce and moving to a ‘studio-led’ structure. The publisher has been releatively quiet since the announcement was made …

BAFTA-winning director of SingStar franchise to head up new London-based online studio

Following yesterday’s US announcement , Activision Blizzard has announced that Call of Duty: World at War will deploy at UK retail on November 14th on Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS, PS2 and PlayStation 3. The game marks a return to WWII for the franchise, and multiplayer betas are due to …

Quitting CTW after many years of service in June 1998, the MCV launch team knew they had to get Issue One out by ECTS, being held in September at Olympia. This meant eleven weeks between heart-breaking resignation and first deadline. Eleven weeks to start being accepted by somebody, anybody, at …