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Studio led by famed game producer Yoshiki Okamoto to work on Hollywood IP-based game for 2010 release

Ubisoft is to release Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2: Legacy Edition for the Xbox 360 in April. As well as including the original game, Legacy Edition will feature an additional DVD incorporating all the GRAW 2 downloadable packs available on Xbox Live, since the game’s original release. The …

The full list is unveiled next month, but a peak at this year's Develop 100 shows UK studios succeed despite global pressures.

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