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French publisher Ubisoft’s financial report for the six months ending September 30th 2007 has been announced, and the figures show that the publisher’s sales climbed by over 50 per cent compared to the same period last year. The firm’s gross margin hit 64.1 per cent, up from the 59.4 per …

North American games retail will this Friday see the arrival of two brand new themed DS bundles – one based on The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and the other on new software release Nintendogs: Best Friends. The former machine will be gold in colour and carry the in-game Triforce …

Ahead of its release in the territory on Friday, Nintendo of Japan has admitted that it won’t be able to meet demand for its DS TV Tuner add-on as it had not anticipated the level of interest it has encountered, CVG reports. The company has been accepting online orders for …

The European arm of Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has begun a promotion designed to reward those who persuade a friend to buy an Xbox 360 – by giving both parties ten Xbox Live Arcade titles each. The titles included in the promotion are Every Extend Extra Extreme, Sonic The …

Scotland's computer software and games industry could employ 5,000 by 2010, says report

Leading global games retail force GameStop has posted record financial results for the quarter ending November 3rd, with net earnings reaching $52 million – up a massive 283 per cent compared to the same period last year. Sales increased by 59.3 per cent to hit $1.6 billion, up from $1.0 …

New mocap tech to boost internal production and service offering

Virtual world event as part of GDC gains key speakers

Then there is literature with every sort of kink and perversion that you can possibly imagine. All done without any age ratings. It seems to be that sex is what people want to read about. What works with books is also pretty true of the film industry. Except for the …

RETAIL Overview: Retail is (and will remain for the foreseeable future) the dominant sales and distribution channel for games. The mechanisms behind retail – manufacturing, infrastructure, POS, inventory, sale or return agreements – are the foundations of the industry’s most common commercial models, whose rigidity is reflected in common commercial …