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Rockstar Games has finally answered the long-running rumours of a sequel to Red Dead Revolver by confirming that the title is indeed in the works and is due for release this autumn. Red Dead Redemption is being developed for Xbox 360 and PS3 by Rockstar San Diego, the studio behind …

Disney Interactive Media has reported a 13 per cent increase in revenue for the quarter ending December 31st 2008, but has nonetheless suffered a loss for period. Revenue reached $313m, up from $276m in the same period the year before. This wasn’t enough to prevent a loss of $45m, down …

North American games publisher EA has pledged to make casual and family gaming a big part of its reinvention roadmap following some disappointing financial results for the firm’s last three months of 2008. It’s online games portal POGO is currently riding high with record subscribers of 1.7m, and EA Mobile …

US publisher EA has announced as part of its Q3 financial results that it is to delay the release of its upcoming The Sims 3 from February 20th to June 3rd. EA boss John Riccitiello said of the decision: We’re moving this title to June 3rd to give us additional …

On the back of some large losses in the publisher’s FYQ3, EA boss John Riccitiello has spoken about the mistakes his company made over the period – and outlined the changes he wants to see in the next 12 months. We are disappointed with our holiday quarter and our FY09 …

EA has announced as part of its latest financial posting that it will release Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Mass Effect II in Q4 this year – adding that the latter title will now be a multi-platform venture. The pair will join a number of others in EA’s 2009 release …

As part of its Q3 financial statement , EA has named FIFA 09 as its top performing title of Q3 2008, with sales topping an impressive 7.8m units worldwide – four per cent up on the performance of FIFA 08 the year before. The publisher’s second best seller, surprisingly, was …

North American publisher EA has announced that it suffered losses totalling $641m for the three months ending December 31st 2008 – this compares to losses of $33m in the same period the year before. Revenue was up, however, hitting $1.65bn compared to $1.5bn in 2007. In further bad news, EA …

ESA, the organizers of America’s leading video games trade show E3, has revealed its initial list of exhibitors for the upcoming event – confirming the support of all three console platform holders. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will be joined by the likes of EA, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, THQ, Sega, Disney, …

Microsoft has continued to see its market share in the software sector ebb away, according to the latest figures from Net Applications, with both Windows and Internet Explorer suffering. Windows has seen its overall use on internet browsing devices drop below the 90 per cent mark for the firm time …