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Why expanding development overseas might not be as easy - or as quick - as it may seem...

Relentless and Sports Interactive put weight behind GamesAid

Ubisoftâ??s recent move to buy and rapidly expand a Gameloft studio in India to over 200 staff by 2009 is the latest example of international expansion into lower cost markets by bold companies unafraid to exploit globalisation.

Wii Fit has overtaken Rockstar’s GTA IV at the top of the Australian charts, according to GFk data. According to next-gen.biz, GTA IV was knocked off the top spot after only one week at the summit. However, the sandbox title did claim second and third on the chart, followed by …

Konami has posted an 18.35 billion Yen ($175m) for the 12 months ended March 31st, 2008 – up 13.2 per cent year-on-year. Konami, which alongside video games has businesses in fitness and arcade, reported full year revenues of 297.4 billion Yen ($2.8bn) – up 6.1 per cent from the previous …

President of Sony Computer Entertainment Kaz Hirai has told MCV that the platform holder believes High Street games retail will still have a major role to play in the future. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Ray Maguire recently told an ELSPA conference that Sony expected digital distribution would make up …

How do you feel PS3 is faring against the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii? I think that PS3, PS2 and PSP are all entertainment platforms so I feel that our competition is not Microsoft or Nintendo, but basically any form of entertainment that is competing for the consumers’ attention. So …

Gamecock has this week officially opened its European office – with the games company rolling out its new indie publishing model under the moniker ‘indie label spirit, major label muscle’. MCV first broke news of the new UK office and amagement team back in January – and the European HQ …

US citizens spent $1.23 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in April, up 47 percent from a year earlier – despite the financial pressure from soaring prices of food and gasoline. According to NPD data, software sales were up 68 percent, fuelled by Grand Theft Auto IV – by …

Nintendo’s Wii was the biggest selling console in the US last month, according to NPD Data – as the format hit 9.5 million lifetime sales in the territory. ShackNews reports the Wii ranked as the month’s top-selling hardware with 714,000 units sold. Nintendo’s DS was the second biggest seller with …