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France can now implement 20 per cent rebate on game budgets; move paves the way for other EU countries to do the same

With the topic of tax rebates for developers raising eyebrows all over the world Guillaume de Fondaumière, president of French industry association APOM, looks back at how his country has fought for government attention and says that the argument video games have cultural relevance must be amplified across Europe�

Speaking earlier today, Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said that the firm’s three-year cost cutting reforms, which included the sale of its Cell CPU business to Toshiba , had placed the firm in a strong financial position that will allow it to bring back some of the wow factor that …

The CEO of Metacafe and former CEO of Pogo.com (property of global publishing giant EA) Erick Hachenburg has joined the board of directors at blossoming online games publisher K2 Networks. Hachenburg has been in the online games industry for over 15 years, and also formerly served as EA’s online publishing …

Maya Muscle facilitates skin and muscle animation

â??Do the Hudson!â?? content portal to feature one new title per week

Australian institution joins NaturalMotionâ??s Academic Partner Program

Features new .NET layer for easier CIL interfacing

Who doesn’t want Wii to win this Christmas? It’s the most joyous, innovative, honest, uncynical games machine we’ve seen in years. It’ll fly out of stores – and continue to sell out well into 2008 – largely because of Wii Sports, and the simple-yet-completely-irresistible appeal of its ‘play tennis in …

MCV has a new editor, with Gamestation’s Martyn Gibbs coming on board to manage the Christmas issue of your favourite games trade read. There are only two issues of MCV left before we all take a well-earned break for the Christmas period. But they’re ones to watch. This Friday we …