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Dubai International Capital, an investor acting on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, has purchased an estimated $500 million worth of Sony shares, or around one per cent of the company, Bloomberg reports. "The combination of Sony’s truly global brand, its leadership position in product design and its global footprint …

Next-Gen reports that leading global MMO firm NCsoft is looking to expand the internet technology side of its business on the back of a recent dip in the firm’s share price. NCsoft owns some of the most popular names in the MMO business, and has backed the recent expansion of …

Low-cost offering to support developers in pitching process

Despite already proving a solid commercial success, the critical reception to Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 has been mixed – and now lead developer Shingo ‘Seabass’ Takatsuka has admitted that he has gone back to the drawing board for the development of PES 2009. Speaking to Future’s PSM3 magazine, the …

After struggling to meet the high demand for its machine shortly after it launched last year, Nintendo has once again found itself in the middle of a global hardware shortage as demand for its machine reaches a new high in the UK in the build up to Christmas. CVG reports …

French developer set for American onslaught with help of Montreal International

...and we've singled out the most interesting sessions at the inaugural French conference

In one week the first French Game Developers Conference takes place. Lyon GDC promises a mix of sessions and talks looking at a variety of issue relating to modern games production through all the disciplines from coding to business. Here, we pinpoint some of the key lecturesâ?¦

Six devs win Nordic Game Programâ??s second round of funding

MCV sister site Develop reports 2008 sees the release of Pivotal’s first next-gen Conflict game, which sees the brand move into the FPS genre – but the team is taking aim at the staples of the shooter category to devise something new. Conflict: Denied Ops is being built for PS3, …