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Financing round boosts casual games firm's plans for community-driven titles

PhysX physics tech will be paired with graphics firm's GeForce cards

Next-gen menu-free metal-crunching racer Burnout Paradise has become the first game of 2008 to hold onto the top spot in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 for two weeks on the trot. EA’s title does so despite a 13 per cent drop in sales – thanks in part to a …

While the acquisition of rival specialist Gamestation during 2007 has driven total sales growth, the incredibly buoyant market has aided the like-for-like improvements. Like-for-like growth of over 30 per cent is almost unheard of among maturing retailers which – like GAME – have not added a considerable amount of organic …

Though there’s still no word on when it will arrive with PS3 gamers, or even when to expect a public beta, Sony has shown off the latest build of its console social networking community Home to attendees at a recent technology show in Monte Carlo, CVG reports. The most obvious …

The latest issue of US games mag GamePro has got Xbox 360 fans excited thanks to its double mention of the as-of-yet unannounced Gears of War 2 on its cover. No more details are known as of yet, though the news had reignited previous talk that Epic’s much-wanted sequel could …

The long-awaited release date for the PS3 version of Midway’s Unreal Tournament III has finally been set in stone, according to CVG . Both leading retailers and publisher Midway have confirmed a February 22nd release according to the site, but a date for the Xbox 360 version of the title …

New information about last year’s purchase of Activision by French games publisher Vivendi have revealed that the deal faced near collapse on at least two occasions, The Wall Street Journal reports. Apparently the first roots of the buyout appeared in late 2006, and by April last year an offer was …

SPECIAL REPORT: London-based Qube says its new technology, to be shown at GDC, has fixed the 'fundamental flaws' of middleware

Sony's SN Systems team reduces price of handheld development tools by 50 per cent