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Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes its Xbox 360 and Zune operations, has announced its first full year of profitable operations, with the fiscal year ending June 30th ’08 bringing $426 million in profit. This compares to the $1.9 billion loss the Division suffered in the previous fiscal year. …
Read More »Channel 4 to join forces with Edinburgh
4Talent Scotland reveals series of sessions to help new talent enter the industry
Read More »First Austin GDC keynote announced
SCEE audio manager Jason Page to talk on whether 'next-gen' audio has delivered
Read More »Why Brighton Rocks…
With Brighton booming for games development and the cityâ??s Develop conference looming, we gathered key staff from the leading games companies in the area to find out why the South Coast has become one of the fastest growing hubs for UK talent â?? and how it could develop in futureâ?¦
Read More »BigWorld expands to Japan and South Korea
MMO middleware firm looks to target huge East Asian online market
Read More »Q&A: More on how Activision Blizzard’s merger impacts its studios
CFO Thomas Tippl discusses strategy and plans following the creation of a publishing and development giant
Read More »Bizarre’s Chudley: ‘We’re fighting to stop UK industry decline’
Commercial director of PGR studio uses Liverpool newspaper opinion piece to rally industry support
Read More »Blaze announces portable MegaDrive
Gamecheat specialist Blaze has announced a brand new Sega MegaDrive based handheld, which includes 20 16-bit titles built in out of the box. Due out some time this month, the 29.99 device includes headline titles such as Sonic and Knuckles, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Kid Chameleon, Altered Beast, Alex …
Read More »E3 08: Future PSP could have hard drive
With Sony putting plenty of emphasis on its still-blossoming portable machine at this year’s E3, Sony’s American CEO has spoke openly for the first time about his ideas for the platform going forwards. Kotaku reports that speaking to a reporter’s gathering this morning, when asked about the possible introduction of …
Read More »Sony Buzz! competitions are now closed
That’s it folks. The Sony and MCV trade competitions offering up the chance to win Buzz! Quiz TV and Buzz! Master Quiz prizes are now well and truly over. All further entries will be sent to the back of the class. So if you didn’t enter, it’s too late, and …
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