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Codemasters will be a publicly quoted company by September 1st unless a major media company or acquisitive games publisher decides to pounce on the last big privately-owned target in the market. And in a climate of stagnating music and DVD sales and the fallout of the bar-raising Activision/Vivendi deal still …

Whilst those crazy Americans have been lapping up the Xbox Live demo for months now, European Katamari fans have been putting up with a frustrating wait for the region-encoded game to arrive on this side of the Atlantic – but the wait is now over. Atari has confirmed that it …

Path-finding middleware sees speed improvements

Sega has confirmed that the Xbox 360 version of its massively popular Football Manager 2008 will arrive on March 28th. Having already gone down a storm on PC, where it continues to trouble the charts, and enjoyed a very successful stint on PSP, the Xbox 360 version is highly anticipated …

Shanda grants over £500,000 for the development of new titles

Growing publisher Codemasters has said that it is to life the wraps on a brand new MMO outing at its upcoming Connect 2008 event in March. We have no idea what the title is called of what it will be about, but the publisher has said that it will be …

12 staff let go as management chooses next step for completed in-house tools and engine

Electronic Arts is to open a new studio in Seoul, Korea. According to a report in Korean newspaper Chosun , the new development offices will be opened within 2008 and will work on creating up to three online titles for the publisher. To read the story in full head over …

Speaking at a gathering for Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier body, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has predicted that the Japanese games market will enjoy a third consecutive year of growth and reach an all new high in 2008. Bloomberg reports that revenue for the period should exceed YEN 700 billion, …

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