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US sales body NPD has released its figures for games industry sales in February in North America, and they show a massive 47 per cent increase in software sales and 19 per cent hike in hardware sales – with total national sales hitting a massive $1.33 billion. Breaking that number …

Chance to add more "great developers" to EA stable has spurred Take 2 takeover attempt says CEO

WiiWare â?? with its accessible, low-cost, connected environment - has convinced all kinds of talent to make games for the platform. In the final of our WiiWare Week features, we talk to D2C founder Scott Orr, also the creator of EA's Madden franchise, about his launch game Spogs Racingâ?¦

SCE boss takes charge of Sony's entire online games business

President of Sony Computer Entertainment Kaz Hirai has taken charge of the company’s online business – separate to its PlayStation division – as part of a company restructuring that will sees the platform holder aggressively pursue the online gaming market. Current president of Sony Online entertainment John Smedley will report …

Take Two’s Board of directors has recommended that its stockholders ‘take no action at this time’ in response to EA’s new $2 billion tender offer. EA announced this morning that it has made an unsolicited conditional tender offer to acquire all of Take-Two’s outstanding shares of common stock for $26 …

Sony is set to buy 2Waytraffic, the independent production company that owns the rights to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. According to BrandRepublic, the deal is valued at 137.5 million. 2Waytraffic was set up in 2004 by former Endemol executives. The firm snapped up the rights to Who Wants …

Ambitious new publisher Brash Entertainment has signed a multi-game deal with developer Factor 5 to produce titles based on movie IP. Factor 5 has worked on a mix of licence-based games in the past, such as Star Wars Rogue Squadron, and original IP including as Lair and Turrican. The studio …

Adds that yesterday's Budget will worry studios further thanks to 'increase in overall tax burden'

COO Tim Sweeney lays out roadmap for popular middleware - PC not a priority