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Nintendo’s US senior director of product development Tom Prata has revealed there are about 100” games in development for the firm’s WiiWare service. According to Prata, the games are at various stages of completion”. He ruled out the introduction of a ‘try-before-you-buy’ trial demo system for each game. Speaking to …

Peter Jackson game team, headed by Kiki Wolfkill, promoted in new 'You At Microsoft' recruitment campaign

Football Manager 2008 has stayed at number one in the Metaboli Download to Own charts for the third month. The Sega-published title continues to outsell Eidos’ Championship Manager, which has to make do with second place. Atari titles The Witcher and Test Drive Unlimited take up the third and fourth …

BioWare and Disney representatives to speak at spin-off event

Back in December 2007, MCV reported that a certain game had cooked up one million sales in Europe, after only a year of release. Shortly afterwards the game got international credentials, when it clocked up 1.6 million sales in the US. Not bad for a DS and Wii game based …

No-cost download goes live on Havok website

BBC current affairs TV show Newsnight has filmed two boys playing a ’15’-rated game in front of one of its reporters – despite the pair clearly being younger than the title’s BBFC age classification. Last Wednesday evening’s episode of the show featured an examination of the legacy of media critic …

Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, has said that the firm must "continue to grow at a rapid pace in the years to come" to remain competitive – revealing he has up to 780m Euros (or $1.2bn) to spend on acquiring studios or publishers which will grow the company. Speaking to …

Prime Minister endorses 20 per cent production cost tax credit as pressure mounts on UK Government

French publisher CEO looks to 'rapidly' grow company via various means including films, licences and development deals