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Wii and DS games make up eight of the current top ten selling titles in Germany, and seven in Spain, reports Next Generation . For the second week running Pokemon Diamond and Pearl top both charts. The top three titles in the Spanish charts are unchanged from the previous week, …

New issue features Rockstar Leeds exclusive interview plus a special look at project management

EAResults for the quarter ended June 30th: Net revenue: $395m (Down four per cent year-on-year) Gross profit: $229m (Seven per cent drop year-on-year) What EA said: This cycle is developing quite differently than the last cycle. The next-gen hardware build is going a little more slowly.” John Riccitiello, CEO What …

Toy specialist Hasbro has struck a major licensing deal with Electronic Arts – further verifying MCV’s recent exclusive that the kids’ firm is set to muscle in on the video games space. The partnership grants EA exclusive global rights to create games based on Hasbro IP including Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, …

Famed for its cinematic interpretations of World War II, Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat, which as the title suggests abandons the 1940’s in favour of contemporary battling, will hit UK and European retail on November 9th, Eurogamer reports . The news apparently emerged a press event earlier this …

German middleware firm opens office in Austin, Texas

Compression middleware aims to help cut manufacturing costs

The Leicester-based firm is being headed up by Jonathan Hales as managing director. He brings with him seven years experience from Codemasters where he was most recently VP and general manager of Northern Region Europe. Founded last year by German games industry veterans Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, Kalyso Media …

We sit down with Autodesk's Michel Kripalani and Curtis Garton to find out more about the recently announced new versions of the company's softwareâ?¦

VP Jamie MacDonald joined by SingStar guru Paulina Bozek and Home director Peter Edward