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Ubisoft has announced that forthcoming shooter Haze has been delayed until fiscal 2008-2009, having originally been scheduled to appear during the fourth quarter of 2007-08. The publisher has raised its 2008-09 sales target to approximately €1 billion, compared with the previously-announced forecast of around €975 million, in order to take …
Read More »Wii hits six million sales in Europe
Nintendo has revealed its latest installed base figures – and can boast six million Wii sales and a phenomenal 20 million DS sales across Europe. The platform holder also announced its financials for the year ending December 31st 2007, confirming that it has sold over 20 million Wiis and over …
Read More »THQ cleans up IP house
Last night THQ announced a number of changes to its product portfolio and internal development business, Develop reports, including the decision ‘not to pursue’ certain IPs and the closure of one US studio, in a bid to boost its slate of owned property and begin a new product quality strategy. …
Read More »Ubisoft beats Q3 forecasts as sales hit 450m
Sales for the third quarter ended December 31st 2007 came to €450 million, up 44.4 per cent compared to the €311 million recorded for the same period the previous year. Ubisoft put its forecast-beating performance down to exceptional” sales of Assassin’s Creed, which in the US was the second-top seller …
Read More »Iwata: ‘We can expand gaming audience even further’
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has asserted that the platform holder is confident it can reach even more new, non-gaming audiences with Wii and DS. Speaking to Japanese site Yukan Fuji (as translated by IGN), Iwata said Nintendo was going to try new things” this year in order to ensure the …
Read More »After an exciting new job? Let us help
Maybe you meant to apply for a new job after New Year and haven’t had the time… Maybe you haven’t yet spruced up that CV… But whenever you’re ready, you’ll find the best list of jobs in games at Mcvuk.com. This week, online retail giant Amazon is advertising for a …
Read More »Sega and THQ expand retail event
Nearly 400 retail and distribution delegates from across Europe, Africa, Australia and beyond will descend on Lisbon in Portugal for a strictly non-media event running between Wednesday June 4th and Friday June 6th. The 2008 Business Partners Summit follows the success of last year’s inaugural Malta event, which was praised …
Read More »Gizmondo to return this year
A new Gizmondo website has gone live and promises the return of one of gaming’s most notorious brands by the end of the year. The legend is reborn”, begins the flashy video posted over at gizmondolive.com, which also references an open source environment,” a Gizmondo live marketplace,” and Create your …
Read More »God of War III almost two years away
Consumer games site GamesRadar is claiming that a ‘reliable Sony source’ has told it that the highly anticipated God of War III for PS3 will not be released until Christmas 2009. Although official information about the game is more or less non-existent at the moment, it is said to support …
Read More »Games set to star at Toy Fair
Organisers of Toy Fair ’08 believe the games-related products on show at the expo would offer specialist retailers a useful extra source of revenue. The event takes place from Wednesday, July 30th to Saturday, February 2nd. Games products on display include Swinxs BV’s Swinxs console, which contains four nifty wristbands …
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