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Based in Washington, En Masse Entertainment is a new publisher with the aim to transform eastern games to better suit western audiences. Its parent company Bluehole considers the west to be a key area for growth, and has faith that its properties in the east can compete with the biggest …

A group of NCSoft employees have merged to head up a new MMO specialist outfit. Based in Washington, En Masse Entertainment is a new publisher with an aim to transform eastern games to better suit western audiences. En Masse is comprised of talent from the likes of Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft, …

Valve is in the process of completing a major update to its digital platform Steam. The Washington-based indie giant’s new Steam client boasts a sharper UI, an integrated Steam news service, as well as enhanced customisability and more thorough game and download info pages. A opt-in Beta version of the …

iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has bought developer Freeverse and announced that it has raised a further $25 million in funding bringing its total – after three rounds – to over $40 million. To read the full story, head over to sister site CasualGaming.biz.

Too right – the chain has sold games for as long as I remember, from before a heyday of Spectrum and C64 titles and onwards. It helped solidify games’ legitimacy on the High Street, and its buying decisions kept some of developers in the Britsoft Hall of Fame in business. …

Electronic Arts’ troubles – fiscal losses, massive job cuts, a thinning roster, waning market confidence – serve as an illustration of the whole industry’s troubles. The firm’s second-in-command, COO John Schappert used his DICE presentation in Las Vegas to show the industry a way out. He said EA and the …

OnLive, which streams top-notch games direct to any device, including TV, has its share of skeptics. Since the service’s announcement at GDC last year, critics have cast doubt on its claims to eliminate latency. But at DICE yesterday (Thursday), OnLive’s president and CEO Steve Perlman showed a live, working demo …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick delivered a winning keynote at DICE in Las Vegas that was full of charming anecdotes about his own mistakes, as well as a vision for how large publishing companies can and should work with creative teams and individuals. His speech to a packed house verged …

Today’s social networking technologies and consumer offerings are direct descendants of ideas pioneered by Walt Disney, such as the theme park, according to Disney Interactive boss Steve Wadsworth. Delivering a keynote speech at DICE in Las Vegas Wadsworth said, "Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company have always understood that …

Atari says it has steadied its rocky financial performances with a very slight year-on-year sales decline of 1.2% for the nine months ended December 31. The firm was helped by a strong performance in the U.S, which offset declines in Europe. European operations were down by 52.5% to €13.8 million …