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Take-Two’s bottom line results were slightly better than we expected, with lower than expected R&D and marketing expenses accounting for most of the EPS upside. On the top line, revenues were higher than expected due to significant contribution from the company’s distribution business. The company’s margins were slightly lower than …

Developers dash to use Apple portable device's development kit just a week after its launch

A video games show for all the family with previews of blockbuster films coming this summer and performances from some of the biggest bands in the UK… Play.com Live has grown from an idea only four months ago to an entertainment spectacle that will be a fantastic day out! "The …

MTV-owned studio which created Guitar Hero files for unpaid $14.5m royalty statement, then cancels action

WiiWare Week: Independent studios the world over are out in force backing Nintendoâ??s upcoming distribution platform

It seems that there’s life left yet in the dilithium crystals of the once dead MMORPG Star Trek Online, with a new holding page online suggesting that more news on the troubled project is on the way. It was reported in January that former developer Perpetual Entertainment had walked away …

Fans of Mortal Kombat rejoice: Midway boss David Zucker has confirmed what many consumers expected – a new Mortal Kombat game is on the way this year. Nothing is known of the game or its title, but a boxed version of the title is likely to arrive on next-gen formats …

Midway CEO David Zucker has revealed that the percentage of the company’s revenue derived from Europe has reached almost 50 per cent on some of its biggest titles. Talking in Midway’s Q4 earning call, Zucker said that the publisher’s decision to ‘go direct’ in the region had seen the figure …

Midway CEO David Zucker has announced that the publisher’s new IP Stranglehold and recent FPS Unreal Tournament 3 have both sold over one million units worldwide. Rampage: Total Destruction on Wii, which was first released back in 2006, has also reached the milestone. Said Zucker: Over the last year we’ve …

The full transcript of Midway’s earnings call for Q4 2007 – which came in the wake of the announcement of the firm’s recent fiscal results – is available now. CEO David Zucker discusses the firm’s net losses, million-selling titles and prospects for 2008. You can read the full transcript here.