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More mergers are going to continue "and you can't stop it" claims Silicon Knights head

Renamed DS audio middleware now official 3rd party tool

Middleware trial 'is proceeding' says Silicon Knights Denis Dyack

Next week sees the release of Canadian studio Silicon Knights' Xbox 360 epic Too Human. We recently caught up with studio head Denis Dyack to find out more about the studio, its pending legal action against Epic Games, and his views on life as an independent studio in North Americaâ?¦

Sony will not announce a price cut to its flagship PlayStation 3 games console at the Leipzig trade expo next week, the company has confirmed. "It’s not going to happen. If you’re coming for that you’ll be disappointed," Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Nick Caplin told Reuters. SCEE president David Reeves …

Nintendo is plotting an aggressive Spanish marketing campaign in Latin America to boost sales of its hardware. The promotional assault will most like happen before Christmas and will focus on sports and fitness games. The platform holder believes the territory’s video game market could be worth up to $2 billion …

In a move that will likely send shudders through the entire retail chain, EA-owned studio Criterion has confirmed that its recent release Burnout Paradise is to be made available as a full download on Sony’s PlayStation Store on PS3. Priced at $29.99 in North America, the game will be available …

Grand Theft Auto IV will finally be released in Japan in October – and distributed under the Capcom label. The title will be made available in the Land of the Rising Sun in a Japan language version on October 30th, on both PS3 and Xbox 360. According to a Kotaku …

UK publisher Codemasters has announced three new titles due out next year based on its Overlord brand – Overlord II on 360, PS3 and PC, Overlord Dark Legends on Wii and Overlord Minions on DS. As a million-plus seller, Overlord is now a significant brand in the ever-growing Codemasters portfolio,” …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has hit out at Warner Music – after the firm demanded games publishers should pay more royalties for tracks used in rhythm-based software. In what the Financial Times calls ‘a sign of increasing tensions between the two companies’, Kotick said Warner Music had failed to …