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Despite announcing poor Q3 financial results and some high-scale company restructuring last week, publisher EA has pledged to not backtrack on its newfound love of original IP and fleshing out new ideas. We can take risks because we are pretty sure our blockbusters are going to generate good revenue that …
Read More »Activision to join the Wii family revolution
Publisher Activision Blizzard has launched a new label of Wii family games dubbed Fun4All, with the drive kicking off next week with six Wii exclusives hitting retail. The range includes Pirates: Hunt for Blackbeard’s Booty, Monkey Mischief, Block Party, Pitfall: The Big Adventure, Little League World Series Baseball and World …
Read More »Activision returns to Transformers IP
Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that it is back aboard the Transformers bandwagon and lining up a games release to coincide with the summer arrival of DreamWorks and Paramount’s movie sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The game, which will be released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PC, DS and …
Read More »WH Smith to ditch games… but will anyone notice?
The ghost of EUK is still haunting the High Street – with WH Smith this week telling MCV that it is to ditch entertainment products – but it seems there have never been more opportunities for games companies to take advantage of new routes to market. WH Smith, one of …
Read More »Konami to publish Saw
Sources” close to Japanese games publisher Konami are claiming that the firm has snapped up the rights to publish Zombie Studios’ upcoming game based on the ultra-violent movie franchise Saw. Question marks were placed over the future of the game following the collapse of former publisher Brash. However, Variety reports …
Read More »Retail games event GamePlan announced
A brand new business-to-business event named GamePlan that is aimed directly at UK retailers is to debut on June 24th in Surrey. The gathering comes after widespread discussions with both UK retailers and games publishers and promises to offer a business environment focusing on one-to-one meetings and an environment where …
Read More »iPhone Gaming the story so far
As part of CasualGaming.biz ‘s ongoing iPhone month, MCV’s sister site brings you the essential history of the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the devices’ rise to power and the industry-changing impact they have had on the casual gaming market. Click here to take a look at the feature.
Read More »Iwata: Wii Music has fallen short of expectations
Saturo Iwata, the boss of platform holder Nintendo, has admitted in an investor call that the firm’s recent release Wii music has not yet lived up to the firm’s expectations – but insisted that it’s day in the sun could still be on the way. I agree that Wii Music, …
Read More »Iwata: Something is wrong with the Japanese market
Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata has expressed concern about the state of the Japanese games market, citing the fact that the US market is has now grown ten times its size. Enterbrain revealed earlier this year that the overall Japanese games market shrank in 2008, and MCV recently predicted that the …
Read More »Virtua Tennis 2009 takes to the court
Sega has announced that Virtua Tennis 2009 will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in May. The game will feature real-world tennis stars such as Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams. And, for the first time, British number one and world number three Andy Murray …
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