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You’ve been very honest in killing off 14 titles because of a perceived poor return on investment. How is being a ‘slimmer’ company in this respect going to work to your advantage in the market? We want to be a leaner and fitter company in terms of what we do …

'We've made too many average games and need to be more ruthless' CEO Rogers says as quality becomes key to firm's restructuring

Point-and-click adventure Same and Max is coming to Nintendo Wii in North America and across Europe this Autumn. Telltale Games has announced that brining the first episode of six of the popular franchise to the console will ‘extend episodic gaming to new audiences and platforms’. The title will be released …

Head of worldwide studios Jack Sorensen says firm wants to become ubiquitous in games

Zoë Mode on the difficulties in seeking female staff

EA has limited the number of sports games it will release on PC this year – with boss of EA Sports Peter Moore calling the platform a serious business challenge”. On his blog, Moore admits that the firm has been forced to cut its sports output on PC, because the …

Tech and legal firms back world's most successful studio list

Stephen King, author of horror classics such as The Shining and Carrie, has come out in strong defence of violent video games. In an editorial opinion for Entertainment Weekly, in which King admits that he’s not a gamer, the novelist forthrightly attacks HB 1423 – a bill pending approval in …

Gamespot reports that THQ has confirmed the release of Saint’s Row II – and given it an official release date of Tuesday, August 26th for North America. Another THQ title, de Blob has also been dated for September. The news comes from last week’s THQ Gamers’ day in San Francisco, …

HudsonSoft is expecting to increase profits to 10 billion Yen by March 2011, a growth of nearly 400 per cent. According to Bloomberg, The Bomberman studio plans to increase focus on Wii, with eight new games due this year. Two years from now will be the time when game-software developers’ …