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Blitz Games Studios is to wind down and close its 1UP initiative, which helped small studios develop, distribute, and promote their games. What’s changed is that the market seems to have shifted quite a lot in the way games are sold,” 1UP producer Neil Holmes told Develop, where you can …

Peripherals firm Mad Catz says that it had to move into publishing or risk becoming ‘redundant’. The company wants to become a multi-platform game publisher and is even considering bundling its games with its accessories. Earlier this month it signed a publishing deal with Microsoft to produce games for Xbox …

Future Publishing has confirmed to staff which titles are to be sold or closed as part of the recent job losses revealed by MCV last week – and the company’s video games teams have survived unscathed. The Guardian reports, however, that eight titles are less fortunate, with DVD & Blu-Ray …

One US analyst had rubbished Microsoft’s belief that its first party Xbox 360 titles are superior” to the catalogues offered by either Nintendo or Sony. In fact, Michael Pachter thinks that Nintendo is the clear leader when it comes to the quality and success of first party console software. I …

Develop Conference: BBC commercial arm to work with UK devs for worldwide distribution

Having successfully brought the PC version of acclaimed RPG The Witcher 2 to PC, Namco Bandai has launched legal action against CD Projekt over its decision to hand the Xbox 360 publishing rights to THQ. Gamepur reports that Namco Bandai is filing action on two counts – firstly, that the …

Peripherals manufacturer Mad Catz has signed a publishing agreement with Microsoft to produce games for Xbox 360. The news comes following the firm’s opening of in-house developer ThunderHawk Studios which is working on a flight simulator game. Other details on its first Xbox 360 games have not yet been revealed. …

Publisher Sega has reached a deal with EA to act as distributor for its games in Japan. Andriasang reports that the agreement kicks off right away with the publishing of EA’s Shadows of the Damned on September 22nd. And next next month Sega hopes to publish some of EA’s back-catalogue …

Independent business media specialist and MCV publisher Intent Media has agreed to acquire the UK entertainment and technology product portfolio of UBM plc for a total cash consideration of 2.4m. Intent specialises in entertainment, technology and leisure markets. Its portfolio already consists of over a dozen market leading online, print …

THQ now has the capacity to invade every genre and sector it targets, CEO Brian Farrell has stated. The exec says his company now stands amongst the likes of Activision, EA and Ubisoft as one of the very top publishers in the business. His confidence comes following the success of …