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There’s plenty going on at GAME Group – on top of integrating its former rival Gamestation into its existing infrastructure, it continues to broaden its business by reaching out to new consumers and expanding in Europe. We get the full story from CEO Lisa Morgan and David Thomas, deputy CEO …

Analysts may well look back at 2007 as the tipping point when the games industry began to eat itself. So many developers were bought up that we could fill all 900-odd words of this feature listing them all; Vivendi bought Activision and in so doing squared up to a dominant …

3D benchmark firm founds new team to make new IP which drives forward computer graphics

PS3 and Xbox 360 versions set for San Francisco debut

Newly-created role sees Martin Gannholm join casual games firm to oversee its future technology

Marvel Comics has cleared the way to set up its own video games publishing arm, after terminating its licensing deal with EA after only one game. Industry analysts have suggested to MCV that the US firm could be set to take its own slice of the publishing market, following years …

Nintendo has responded to worries that only first-party titles are selling on the Wii, stating that it believes the situation is only temporary. According to the company’s third-quarter report meeting transcription, translated by MCV sister site Develop, the problem is simply one of the Wii still being a young system …

Following a whopping multi-million dollar merger with GSPAC, newly-named SouthPeak Interactive Corporation has told MCV that it will step up its game portfolio and take on the big guns of the publishing world. The big-money merger with Global Services Partners Acquisition was revealed last week, a transaction which is made …

Woolworths has announced that Lloyd Wigglesworth has stepped down as managing director of EUK. Wigglesworth has led the distribution arm of Woolworths through a number of changes during his time at EUK, including the acquisitions of THE and Bertram, and will also retire from the Board. Steve Lewis, currently MD …

Comic publisher clearing way for entry into games market?