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GAME’s outlook for financial year 2008/9 demonstrates the retailer’s current confidence as it looks to expand heavily into France, Spain and Australia, with 100 new stores on the agenda. It also expects to see continued strong current trading” and for the Gamestation acquisition to result in revenue and cost synergies …

GAME Group has released its preliminary results for the year ended 31st January 2008 – and in doing so revealed that the High Street giant is in rude health. Total sales growth for the period stands at 86 per cent, with like for like sales up by 41.2 per cent. …

Four of UK games development’s self-made men feature in The Sunday Times’ 2008 Rich List – Andrew and Paul Gower, heads of Runescape studio Jagex, Traveller’s Tales founder Jon Burton and former Rare owner Chris Stamper. At joint 746th on the list, alongside property magnates and pharmaceutical barons, brothers Andrew …

The organisers of France’s IDEF expo have told MCV the show will be perfect” for any European retailer that feels shunned by E3 – and that it is the only expo to offer previews of Q4 titles with plenty of time for UK buyers to purchase stock before Christmas. IDEF, …

MCV was in attendance at Sierra’s Spring Break event in Mallorca last week – and got an eyeful and plenty of new details about the publisher’s upcoming release slate. Over 350 people from 22 nations flew out to Mallorca last week to get a taste of what’s coming from Sierra …

Sierra is to release a new range of Xbox Live Arcade casual titles online this ummer. The news was revealed at the publisher’s 2008 Spring Break event in Mallorca last week, which was attended by over 350 people from 22 nations. The three titles on show from Sierra Online were …

Infogrames believes that the offer has the potential to be significantly value enhancing to both SCi’s and Infogrames shareholders,” says a statement from the company. Infogrames also confirmed that it has sufficient resources to satisfy the cash element” of the offer and has secured commitments in relation to the potential …

Sierra used its Spring Break event in Mallorca last week to demonstrate its new Spyro title. The game will be released on PS3, 360, Wii PS2 and DS in October, and has been developed by Etranges Libellules. Billed as the concluding chapter in the trilogy started with The Legend of …

At is Sierra Spring Break ’08 event for trade and press last week, the publishr unveiled its new Crash Bandictoot game – Crash: Mind Over Mutant on Wii, PS2, 360, PSP and DS. Crash returns in the family friendly ‘free-romping’ adventure, which has been developed by Radical Entertainment and is …

Sierra unveiled its its new World In Conflict title on Xbox 360 at its Spring Break ’08 event in Mallorca last week. Following the success of World in Conflict’s release on PC, this new title takes the critically-acclaimed original and build upon that with new 360-exclusive levels in which gamers …