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In the wake of last night’s financial report from Rockstar-owning Take Two, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has stated that the upcoming financial uplift that will accompany the release of GTAIV is not enough to hide the problems faced by the publisher. Take Two is pretty much the same company …

Following Take Two’s financial results last night , leading games analyst Michael Pachter has said he is unimpressed with the results, though he does expect GTAIV to be an overwhelming success. We are relatively unimpressed with Take Two’s lineup for the next financial year with the glaring exception of GTA …

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 …