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Post-Christmas sales of Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games have helped push Sega’s Q1 revenues for 2008-2009 up 90 per cent to 30.5 billion Japanese yen ($279.6m). The result, for the three months to March 31st 2008, means that the division reduces its operating loss from 7.2 billion yen …

Microsoft says there is ‘no question’ that the sale of downloaded games will overtake the sales of games at retail in the coming years. According to David Gosen, Xbox Europe’s VP of strategic marketing and Live, There’s no question digital will overtake physical. It happened in music and will happen …

The highly anticipated LEGO Batman is just the beginning of developer Traveller’s Tales brick-based output under parent Warner Bros, the boss of the studio has revealed. Traveller’s Tales president Jon Burton said that the company was already working on LEGO titles based on Warner IP. Warner Bros., which acquired Traveller’s …

From the land of the online game comes a solution for online behaviour and bandwidth testing we discoverâ?¦

Chinese outsourcer will use money to further growth 'through acquisitions'

In this opinion piece Chris Doran, founder of Enlighten game lighting tool creator Geomerics, aruges the case for why developers should be looking to film not just for inspiration in storytelling, but in the use of smart lighting and camera tricks, to inspire their gamesâ?¦

Crackdown developer makes call as it joins developer association

VP Gosen says format-holder will put more cash into dev relations and content deals

Las Vegas-based developer thinks middleware will 'push production dates backwards for the first time'

Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft and its expansion The Burning Crusade have both finally seen a release in Russia. The titles have been fully localised and allow consumers to begin playing on dedicated realms with the benefit of a Russian-language customer-support team. The release is the fifth European-language version of World …