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Dan Cornelius, UK marketing manager for Xbox 360 hardware has said that the Xbox 360 price drop will inevitably lead to flood of consumer uptake for the Microsoft console – and that the move has highlighted the differentiation between it and Sony’s PS3 by not forcing consumers to foot a …

Top Vivendi executive Pascal Brochier reveals his expectations for the frantic end-of-year period and talks about re-structuring, product and the importance of the UK market in our exclusive interview. He also reveals the firm’s intentions to be increasingly creative and aggressive” in European markets. To read the full interview, just …

The British Midlands Development Corporation, an American development agency for central England, has been toasting the growth of the games sector in UK’s midlands. MCV sister publication Develop reports that two key announcements have been key to this growth – namely the expansion of Sega’s Racing Studio in Solihull, which …

Next-gen.biz reports that the success of the Japanese publisher’s Wii titles has boosted Capcom’s stock significantly, after Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition shipped 750,000 units globally. Capcom’s shares have already risen 33 per cent this year. The publisher also has Camelot-developed We Love Golf in the pipeline, which is expected …

Procedural content, 100MB file size, just six dev staff and self-publishing ambitions - all in an exclusive Develop interview

We speak to NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil about the companyâ??s decision to move into full game production and how procedural content is helping its small development team build a new IPâ?¦

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Finalist projects from student game design competition now online

What is the thinking behind the recent re-jig of your managerial structure? We have re-organised Europe under a single leadership. The UK is a critical market for us so it is important that we continue to invest, especially on the console side of things. We want to continue to invest …

There have been a lot of consumers waiting for this to happen because we’ve taken so long to do it, and now they will buy into the world of Xbox 360. The Core, which we have dropped to just 179.99, still does very well for us in the UK. It’s …