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MCV sister mag Develop reports that Denmark’s Deadline Games is planning for a major ramp up of its production capacity after signing a massive deal with Eidos for ten new games. The three-year agreement covers ten games based on characters taken from the Hanna-Barbera studio licensed to Eidos by Warner …
Read More »OPINION: Xbox 360s sales spike
Dan Cornelius, UK marketing manager for Xbox 360 hardware has said that the Xbox 360 price drop will inevitably lead to flood of consumer uptake for the Microsoft console – and that the move has highlighted the differentiation between it and Sony’s PS3 by not forcing consumers to foot a …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Vivendis Pascal Brochier
Top Vivendi executive Pascal Brochier reveals his expectations for the frantic end-of-year period and talks about re-structuring, product and the importance of the UK market in our exclusive interview. He also reveals the firm’s intentions to be increasingly creative and aggressive” in European markets. To read the full interview, just …
Read More »Capcom shares rocket after Nintendo success
Next-gen.biz reports that the success of the Japanese publisher’s Wii titles has boosted Capcom’s stock significantly, after Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition shipped 750,000 units globally. Capcom’s shares have already risen 33 per cent this year. The publisher also has Camelot-developed We Love Golf in the pipeline, which is expected …
Read More »Vivendi’s French evolution
What is the thinking behind the recent re-jig of your managerial structure? We have re-organised Europe under a single leadership. The UK is a critical market for us so it is important that we continue to invest, especially on the console side of things. We want to continue to invest …
Read More »Why we dropped the 360s price
There have been a lot of consumers waiting for this to happen because we’ve taken so long to do it, and now they will buy into the world of Xbox 360. The Core, which we have dropped to just 179.99, still does very well for us in the UK. It’s …
Read More »Zelda game bundled with Wii Zapper
Nintendo’s Wii Zapper – the gun-shaped holster for the console’s motion-sensing Remote and Nunchuck – will be sold with a new Zelda title when it is released in Novermber. The platform holder has revealed that the Zapper will be released on November 19th in the US, where it will retail …
Read More »More job cuts expected at Take-Two as sales fall
Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick told investors in a conference call last night that further job cuts will be made as the company continues to restructure. The troubled publisher has already cut staff in Europe and sold of its peripherals business Joytech. The publisher’s chairman also stated that big franchises like …
Read More »UK CHARTS: EA shoots down Bioshock
This week’s ELSPA/ChartTrack top forty chart shows an impressive one-two from EA, as Medal of Honor: Airborne cruises straight into the number one spot in its first week on sale, while Tiger Woods holds on to second place once more. Publishing giant EA will also be celebrating a new entry …
Read More »God of War PSP will miss Christmas
The PSP version of God of War: Chains of Olympus has slipped and will now go on sale in the US on March 4th 2008, missing out on the lucrative Christmas buying period. It was hoped that the title would be a potential PSP driver over the period, judging by …
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