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Electronic Arts is looking for a partnership or acquisition in Japan, according to the Financial Times. President of EA Asia Jon Niermann said Japan was a strategic priority” for the company, in an interview at the Tokyo Games Show. He added that EA was interested both in blue-chip players and …

Publisher aiming for greater Japanese market share via local studios

Publisher aiming for greater Japanese market share via local studios

ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has hit out at video games for existing in a ‘moral vacuum’ compared to television drama. According to Broadcast magazine, Grade said that TV could take the moral high ground over games because it enjoyed the ‘framework of a dramatic narrative’. Grade was responding directly …

Chief executive of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello has told some of the most powerful luminaries in television that games are no more violent a media than TV programmes. Speaking in a presentation to the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention, Riccitiello said video games were ‘unfairly demonised’ in the press for …

Electronic Arts looks set to go head-to-head with the likes of Resident Evil and Silent Hill with Dead Space – the mega-publisher’s first ever survival horror title. Details of the game have been unveiled by the website of Game Informer magazine. The publication reports: ‘Fans of the cult-classic film Event …

More details on long-rumoured UE3-powered new IP emerge

The Sims on Stage provides online karaoke performance venue

SCi has issued a statement to the City to confirm it has been approached to discuss a possible offer for the business. The statement reads: Following the recent speculation in the press, the Board of SCi Entertainment Group plc confirms that it has received an approach and as a result …

German developer gets distribution deal for DS title