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Atari online revenues soar 494%
Atari’s revenues dropped from €92.5m (77.7m) to €41m (34.4m) year-on-year during the nine months ending December 31st. Despite the 55.7 per cent dip in overall revenues, Atari’s online business grew 493.5 per cent during the fiscal period. €18.4m (15.4m) was generated in this area compared to €3.1m (2.6m) the year …
Read More »Calibur11 braced for UK debut
Calibur11 is promoting its first UK products two months ahead of launch. The new peripherals vendor will enter the market this April with a line of interactive console shells for the Xbox 360. The firm is focusing on its Vault line-up: character-based cases that light up when the console is …
Read More »Kotick ‘lost in a time machine’
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick "seems lost in a time machine perspective of a past business model that will never return". That’s according to IndustryGamers publisher Mark Friedler, who in a scathing editorial says that the publisher’s unwillingness to brach into the casual and social gaming sector is a serious …
Read More »Relentless looking at emerging TV platforms
Brighton studio believes diversifying is key after years of PS3 work
Read More »The new Relentless game
Having ditched retail, the Brighton indie has opened its iPhone account with an all-new title
Read More »Super Mario All-Stars lives on
As was rumoured last month, Nintendo of America has confirmed that it will produce more copies of last year’s Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition for the Wii. Kotaku reports that the company has said it will produce a "final run" of the game, with the next shipment due to arrive …
Read More »Relentless confirms redundancies
Brighton-based studio Relentless has issued redundancies to a number of staff, the outfit has told to Develop. The UK independent recently shifted its weight to focus work on digital games. That step away from retail, and the end of an exclusivity deal with Sony, initiated a reorganisation at the outfit. …
Read More »EA learnt from Sports Active 2 RRP
Publisher EA has admitted that it made mistakes with the launch of last year’s fitness title EA Sports Active 2. The game failed to chart in the UK when it arrived at the end of November – complete with a 79.99 RRP. However, it wasn’t until the week ending January …
Read More »GAME: Boxed and digital are not separate
"It’s misleading to think of boxed product and digital sales as separate." That’s the claim of GAME Group CEO Ian Shpeherd who today highlighted the retailer’s intention to further leverage the growth of digital as part of its overall product offer. "Boxed product has been challenging, and will continue to …
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