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Cult shooter Geometry Wars hits Wii tomorrow – and publisher Vivendi is confident that its critical success can translate into impressive sales. The release has been subject to several improvements over the original Xbox Live title and has been wowing the critics, product marketing executive Gary Chantler told MCV: Everyone’s …

Outsource specialist furthers Chinese development

David Edery blogs about how developers can make sure trial games can shine

Canadian studio XGen to make games for Nintendo's downloadable platform

Graeme Struthers, Sarah Seaby and David Noble to open dev-focused publisher's London office

Industry veteran Struthers can boast stints at Take 2, Virgin, Atari, Dixons and more, will be heading up Gamecock’s European office. While Seaby, a former Take 2, Interplay and Virgin exec, will be spearheading all of the fledgling company’s European marketing operations. Fellow industry veteran and former RedOctane sales supremo …

Speaking to French newspaper Les Echos, Leleu set out his battleplan to bring Infogrames and Atari back to former glories. Our current strategy consists of starting to spend on capital projects again, adopting a consistent publishing policy that takes into account new market trends, and restructuring the company, including by …

Infinity Ward, developer of Call of Duty 4, has cited piracy as the main reason for the decline in PC gaming. Infinity Ward’s community relations manager expressed his amazement in a blog entitled They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Any More. To read the story in full, head …

You have just issued 150 million euros in convertible bonds. What are the proceeds going to be used for? Let me first remind you that Infogrames is fortunate to operate in a particularly promising sector. The success of Nintendo’s DS and Wii consoles has given the video game sector a …

Dead Space executive producer Glen Schofield has said that the sci-fi horror title could become a multi-title franchise for EA. I would definitely like to make future Dead Space games,” he said, in an interview with Eurogamer Germany. I’d love for this to become a well established franchise; we’ve created …