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With Halo 3 currently claiming the title of the most played game on Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, there will be plenty of gamers celebrating the news that Bungie is to release two multiplayer map bundles for the world-beating FPS. Microsoft blog Gamerscore reports that the first bundle will arrive for …

Atari’s financial filing for its second financial quarter of 2008 ending September 30th 2007 shows that net loss for the period reached $7.7 million, up from a loss of $68,000 in the same period the year before. Net revenue for the period was $13.3 million, down from $28.6 million last …

As leading global publisher Electronic Arts continues to press ahead with its grand plans for casual gaming, the publisher has recruited former Mattel executive Russell Arons as its VP of marketing at EA Casual Entertainment. Arons has worked in global brand management for nearly 15 years, with her most notable …

Kynogon's AI middleware to be used in upcoming DC Comics MMO

As well as clinching the top spot in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40, Ubisoft’s Xbox 360 and PS3 title Assassin’s Creed marks the publisher’s first All Formats Number One since the release of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 in March this year. In addition, the game becomes the second …

Highly anticipated historical stealth adventure Assassin’s Creed has knocked reigning chart topper Call of Duty 4 from the top of the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40, with the Xbox 360 version leading the way claiming 67 per cent of the title’s total sales. Activision’s FPS drops to number two following …

CVG reports that an employee of comic publisher and The Darkness rights holder Top Cow Comics has let slip that a sequel to the title is already in the works. The rumours claim that Starbreeze Studios, the developer of the first title and also of celebrated Xbox outing The Chronicles …

European facility renamed to Disney Mobile Games Studio

Harmonixâ??s latest offering boosted by online middleware

Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, has stated that his firm’s Xbox Live network puts the efforts of his gaming rivals to shame. "It’s fair to say that Xbox Live is clearly head and shoulders above anything anyone else has tried to do. We don’t have …