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It’s official – the hi-def format war is over, with news of Toshiba’s decision to cease production of HD-DVD equipment, handing victory to Sony’s Blu-Ray technology. Reuters reports that the news was broken by Japanese broadcaster NHK, with the outlet predicting that Toshiba’s losses could amount to hundreds of millions …

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While setting out his vision for a new Atari, CEO David Gardner admitted that the firm’s US-based operation has lost Infogrames money – but insists that there will be no sell-off within the loss-making division. It’s true it has lost plenty of money,” he told MCV. We don’t directly control …

GTA publisher, Take-Two, has unveiled three new appointments to its management team. The Board of directors has named Strauss Zelnick, currently non-executive chairman, as the new executive chairman. Ben Feder has been employed as CEO of Take-Two until October 31st 2012. And Karl Slatoff was named executive vice president, with …

What do you think was the secret behind such a successful 2007 for the company? The key to the performance was a combination of elements. The most important was innovation. We were able to be successful with new products on the casual business, with a lot of new products for …

Gardner’s CV is not to be sniffed at – most would be pleased enough with setting up and running EA Europe in the mid-eighties, but he subsequently climbed the ranks of the industry’s largest third party publisher to become VP of international publishing and then EVP of EA’s worldwide studios, …

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If you're heading to the US for GDC08, then this is the page for you â?? a comprehensive summary of whatâ??s planned for this yearâ??s eventâ?¦