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MMO specialist NCsoft has emerged on a high from E3, having announced a major new agreement with Sony. The deal will see the company produce a number of titles for the PS3 and PSP, based on new and existing IP. We’re delighted with what we’ve just signed,” CEO of NCsoft …
Read More »Vegas or New York? A less elitist E3 beckons
And if you were amongst the much reduced number of ‘accredited press’ then this year’s games industry showcase was probably about as close to heaven as is possible without aid of illegal substances. Media were targeted with a dozen short press conferences from the big publishers over two days, with …
Read More »Wii sales top 3m in Japan
Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain reports that Nintendo’s Wii has sold 3.01 million units in Japan, with the DS topping 18 million, according to Reuters. Both consoles have broken sales records in a short period of time – with Wii launching on December 2nd last year in the territory and DS …
Read More »Futures online success continues
Future Publishing’s consumer games site GamesRadar is celebrating after its first ever ABC Electronic certificate – which confirms that the portal attracted over 3.25 million unique users between May 1st and 31st. The website, which has offices in the UK and USA, generated 42.86 million page impressions during the period. …
Read More »Sonys Hirai to keynote at Tokyo Games Show
The new head of the PlayStation division’s address is to be entitled The Expanding PlayStation World, Business Strategy For New Growth,” according to a report on IGN. Following a muted showing at E3, Kazuo Hirai is expected to kick off Japan’s biggest games show by revealing more online functionality and …
Read More »Confirmed: No X07 this year
The rumour originally surfaced from a SquadXP podcast, in which Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox Live group product manger Aaron Greenberg stated: There’s not a real X07 this year, but I think we’ll figure out some way to talk about 2008 sometime in a different event or a different type …
Read More »Rockstar to bring Table Tennis to Wii
Another UK studio has taken to Wii development, with Rockstar Games’ Leeds team working on a conversion of its San Diego sister studio’s Table Tennis game. The game is due out later this year and adds Wiimote functionality to the title’s table tennis league gameplay, reports developmag.com. "Ever since we …
Read More »THQ signs up to Steam
Valve has announced that publisher THQ has signed up to distribute its games on the US independent developer’s Steam service. MCV sister site Develop reports that the firms believes the industry will see product from "some of the most prestigious development studios in the gaming industry" on the site as …
Read More »Tesco expands own-brand software roll-out
The roll-out of Tesco’s own-brand software has stepped up a pace this week, with more than 200 new stores set to have product on shelves by the end of this week. The Tesco Software range was launched in October last year and introduced to around 150 of the supermarket giant’s …
Read More »Rivalling the online super-powers
In less than three months we have grown tgrav.com into a retail business that is attracting interest from major publishers and manufacturers. We are developing new routes to market quicker than our major competitors and this is ensuring we stand firmly on the map ready for the Christmas explosion. The …
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