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Despite suffering a heavy stock fall following the news that key upcoming title Metal Gear Solid 4 will not arrive until next year, Konami has posted a 23 per cent rise in net income for the first half of its financial year ending September 2007. Net income reached YEN 13,075 …
Read More »LGF: EA’s ‘Be the One’
Few things stand so tall over the city of London that they can be seen for miles around. There’s Canary Wharf, obviously, the BT Tower, The Millennium Wheel, Ken Livingstone’s famous Gherkin and, erm, Homer Simpson. Okay, so he might not be a regular fixture of Europe’s most celebrated city, …
Read More »Zavvi completes Fastest ever re-branding today
The huge Zavvi roll-out that will once and for all see the Virgin Megastore name disappear from the UK’s High Streets has today completed, with the retailer calling it the fastest re-brand in entertainment retail history.” Stephen Lynn, senior PR and promotions manager at Zavvi Entertainment group told MCV last …
Read More »LGF press was incredible, says EA
EA boss Keith Ramsdale has hailed the ‘unprecedented’ exposure the firm received after its Be The One event at the London Games Festival – and hinted that it may host an even more ambitious showcase next year. As revealed by MCV, Be The One was the most high profile marketing …
Read More »Sega: "Golden Compass can be next LOTR"
Sega has compared the family appeal of its upcoming movie adaptation The Golden Compass to that of The Lord Of The Rings. The publisher is confident that it can use the promotional clout of movie distributor New Line to push the title high up the Christmas chart – and become …
Read More »Flurry of promotions at Nintendo UK
Following its domestic growth and global success, Nintendo’s UK office has handed out a string of promotions across the business. Rob Lowe and James Honeywell – UK product managers for Wii and DS, respectively – have both been made senior product managers. PR supremo Rob Saunders becomes senior UK PR …
Read More »Report claims Warner paid £100m for Traveller’s Tales
Develop reports that EA may have stolen the title of ‘most cash happy acquirer’ last month when it spent big ( $860m big ) to buy BioWare/Pandemic, but it seems Warner Bros wasn’t being tightfisted either when it came to buying Traveller’s Tales. A report on the Manchester Evening News …
Read More »GTA IV still scheduled for Q1 2008
Following his statement that upcoming next-gen title Grand Theft Auto IV will only be released once the developer in utterly convinced” that it is ready, Take 2 chairman Strauss Zelnick has now said that that game will ship by the end of April next year as previously stated. Speaking to …
Read More »Nintendo trails 360 and PS2 in EA revenues
It has been revealed that despite the global dominance of Nintendo’s Wii and DS gaming duo, both the Xbox 360 and the PS2 were more profitable for global publishing giant EA for the quarter ending September 30th – reinforcing concerns that third party publishers are finding it hard to tap …
Read More »Nvidia breaks $1 billion revenue barrier
PC Retail reports that Nvidia has posted revenues in excess of $1 billion for a single quarter for its first time ever. The billion per quarter virgins broke through the barrier by a further $12 million. "We are very proud to have achieved our first billion dollar quarter. And, while …
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