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Another interesting snippet in EA’s recently released and much-discussed financial statement was the claim that new extreme-sports outing Skate outsold Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. CFO Warren Jensen boasted: "Despite the fact we launched on three fewer platforms, Skate outsold Tony Hawk 2 to 1." Tony Hawk’s is one of …

Japanese outfit co-founded by Mikami uses social networking site for company blog

Following a spate of under-your-breath internet rumours that upcoming RTS Halo Wars is bound for PC as well as Xbox 360, Microsoft has rubbished the talk. Speaking to IGN, a spokesperson stated: "Halo Wars is being developed from the bottom up for the Xbox 360 and its control scheme to …

Sky News reports that National Geographic is to drop the HD DVD format in favour of rival hi-def format, Blu-Ray. National Geographic, along with New Line Home Entertainment, HBO Home Video and BBC Home Video, are all distributed under the Warner umbrella. Warner announced it was to drop HD DVD …

Following its inclusion in EA’s successful The Orange Box, Valve’s dimension-bending shooter Portal has become somewhat of a cult classic – and now developer Valve has said that there’s plenty more to come from the franchise. Speaking to Eurogamer, Valve’s Doug Lombardi said of a possible add-on or sequel: "There’ll …

February 8th can’t come soon enough for fans of Capcom’s successful hack ‘n’ slash (‘n’ shoot) action series Devil May Cry, but PS3 gamers face a costlier outlay than their Xbox 360 rivals. The PS3 version of Devil May Cry 4 looks set to retail for 49.99 in most High …

Amongst the news to emerge from EA’s latest trading statement was the confirmation that two of its key next-gen titles, Mercenaries 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company, will now arrive some time in the publisher’s fiscal 2009 year. In layman’s terms that means some time between April this year and April …

The full transcript from the conference call that followed EA’s announcement of its financial results for Q3, 2007 is now available online. The document reveals that the megapublisher believes PS3 takes longer to develop for than Xbox 360, Rock Band is to be released on Wii and that much-anticipated titles …

London-based studio focused on handheld games shuts up shop

Bullish EA boss talks company overhaul and elusive pursuit of an internally-developed Metacritic hit