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Trilogy Logistics has fallen into administration, MCV can reveal – with unconfirmed reports surfacing that Gem has already negotiated a double-quick buyout of the Northamptonshire firm’s assets. Trilogy has suffered from a difficult year, following the fall-cum-acquisition of exclusive publishing partner Midway. MCV revealed last week that Ubisoft had ended …

Planning a strong push into the games sector, social network hi5 has hired outspoken industry veteran Alex St. John as president and chief technology officer. Until late last year, St. John was CEO of online gaming destination WildTangent. Previously, he was a Microsoft bigwig, whose credits include co-creating DirectX. His …

US Wii sales for the crucial Thanksgiving week checked in at 550,000 units, according to Nintendo, down from 800,000 last year. Nintendo said it was happy with the result, following 2008’s high peaks. The firm recently dropped the console’s price $50 to $199 to stimulate demand in the console, which …

Despite announcing a drastic drop in sales for its half-year, and a loss of 78m euros, Ubisoft says strong sales of Assassin’s Creed II – up 32 per cent on the original game in its first week – point to a bright future for big name franchises. The firm’s R&D …

So CEO Yoichi Wada’s comments to us last week about the potential death of the home console should not to be dismissed as outlandish. He says the trade’s bread and butter sales and distribution forces will be hit hard by the oncoming tidal wave of browser games and online distribution. …

The Call Of Duty series has surpassed 55 million unit sales to date worldwide, taking a whopping $3 billion in retail sales in the process. That’s according to a combination of data from The NPD Group, ChartTrack, GfK and internal Activision estimates, released today by the publisher. The series has …

Future Publishing has revealed that it is trialling paywalls on its websites – to discover how much its online consumers are willing to pay for content. Future CEO Stevie Spring said that the firm produced ‘must-have, very special content’, which consumers were more willing to pay for than national or …

Future Publishing’s full year profits dropped 61 per cent in the 12 months to September 30th – with CEO Stevie Spring admitting the US division of the firm suffering a difficult” year. However, it was better news for the UK office of the company, which Spring said had out-performed the …

Square Enix chief Yoichi Wada is preparing his firm for the demise of physical media – and potentially the death of home consoles. In an exclusive interview with MCV that will be published next week, the CEO of the publisher – which now owns Eidos and is famous for its …

Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption will hit shelves in April 2010, according to a mail-out from the publisher. The long-awaited title was ‘delayed’ earlier this year, when an earnings call from Rockstar parent Take Two revealed it was to be released in Q1 2010. The firm’s mail-out to press today also …