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Creditors at Midway Games have launched a lawsuit against former Midway owner Sumner Redstone and his company National Amusements Inc, claiming that the firm was hurt when Redstone sold his 87 percent stake in it for $100,000. Bloomberg reports than an official committee of unsecured Midway creditors filed a complaint …
Read More »Tiga: Govt narrow-minded with creative industry funds
Tiga CEO Richard Wilson has told Develop that Westminster is once again taking narrow-minded” measures, following reports of new funding initiatives for the creative industries. According to trade publication Music Week*, the Department for Work and Pensions will soon be using over half of its 50 million war chest to …
Read More »Develop 100 toasts Activision Blizzard studios
Activision Blizzard is arguably the big winner in the 2009 edition of the Develop 100 – three of its studios make it into the top ten. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard takes the number one slot, with Call of Duty World at War developer Treyarch at seventh, and CoD creator …
Read More »The winning ticket
The company has scooped three MCV Awards and recently posted excellent end-of-year figures. What’s the secret?It’s because we have a fantastic and perfectly placed product proposition within our stores. As we know, the UK video games market last year reached 4bn – which was a stunning performance for us overall, …
Read More »Sony expanding the PlayStation Network beyond PS3
Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has spoken on how online services have driven the expansion of the PlayStation business, and has implied that Sony is set to push the PSN service on other devices. We will be expanding the PlayStation Network to hardware other than the PS3,” he said in …
Read More »Fourth splinter group rises from Ensembles ashes
Two ex-ensemble programmers have together started their own independent development group, Newtoy. The news marks the fourth independent studio that has formed from the infamous Ensemble closure at the hands of owning company Microsoft. The platform holder’s decision to close down Ensemble – a revered development veteran responsible for the …
Read More »Charlie Brooker producing new games TV show
Is gaming finally getting a decent, grown-up national TV show in the UK? Almost 15 years after Dominic Diamond graced our screens on GamesMaster, it has been confirmed Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker is working on a new TV show called Gameswipe which is being produced by Endemol-owned Zeppotron. Brooker was …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed 2 gets UK TV premiere this weekend
The release date may be some time off, but that’s not stopping Ubisoft’s plans to promote Assassin’s Creed 2 – the game’s first trailer will debut on UK TV this weekend. Broadcast on Five during movie The Da Vinci Code, the promotional push consists of a teaser and full trailer. …
Read More »Capcom FY profit rises 3.3%
Capcom’s net income for the full year to March 31st, 2009 jumped 3.3 per cent to 8,063 million yen, the firm has reported. Net sales increased to 91,878 million yen, up 10.6% from the previous year. Operating income increased to 14,618 million yen, up 11.4 per cent, whilst ordinary income …
Read More »Supermarket battle hots up as Somerfield enters the fray
Somerfield has unveiled a shock warplan to become a leading games retailer – as fellow supermarkets Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s aggressively expand their buying teams in a bid to grab more market share. In yet another new route to market for UK publishers, The Co-operative, which bought Somerfield for 1.5 …
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