As the Game Convention Asia Conference gets underway in Singapore this week, the event’s head has told us that the Asia-Pacific region is primed for expansion that could see it become a key market for the industry – comparable to Europe, Japan or North America. Specifically Joerg Zeissig, MD of …

Atari has revealed that 90 per cent of its output will be online-only in a few years as it increasingly favours online titles over traditional retail. The publisher’s recent deal with Namco Bandai includes a clause which gives the Japanese developer and publisher the option to buy Infogrames’ distribution business …

Could you explain what your intentions are with the Namco Bandai deal? David Gardner: We’ve being saying all along that we want to make the business online and so what we’ve decided to do is separate the distribution company. The distribution side will handle Infogrames, Namco Bandai and other publishers’ …

Head of GC Asia event predicts boom for games industry in Asia thanks to online and casual games

As the countdown to Christmas continues, Nintendo has unveiled a series of new DS bundles designed to appeal to the whole family. Each pack is set to hit retail across Europe in time for the Christmas period, with the following five bundles set for the UK next month: – White …

Zavvi managing director Simon Douglas has been elected chairman at the Entertainment Retailers’ Association for the next year. The decision was made at the ERA’s Annual General Meeting, which took place in London this morning. Douglas – who last year led the buy-out of the Virgin Megastores chain to create …

Joerg Zeissig, MD of Leipziger International Asia, tells us about Game Convention Asia, and offers up his outlook on the industry in the Asia-Pacific regionâ?¦

Spore publisher EA has responded to a number of the complaints being levelled at the publisher regarding its seemingly strict DRM measures included in Will Wright’s latest PC outing – and it has stated that it intends to make changes to its current three install limit on the game. Speaking …

Woolworths has reported group losses of almost 100 million for the six months to the start of August. Sales for the retail business were 660.7 million in the half-year, down 3.2 per cent like-for-like. The company’s entertainment wholesale and publishing arm – including its BBC Worldwide joint venture 2entertain – …

French publisher Ubisoft has confirmed the UK release date of its upcoming voice-controlled RTS, Tom Clancy: Endwar – it will hit UK retail on November 7th. Other news to emerge from the publisher’s release schedule includes the slight slippage of Gearbox’s Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway on PC, which will …