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Viacom earnings fall, Harmonix dispute blamed
03 February 2012 13:44 GMT
The latest figures from Viacom show a 65 per cent fall in net earnings compared to the previous year, a fall it at least partly attributes to its on going dispute with Harmonix.
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SEGA 9 month profit down 6.6% YoY as games buoyed by Pachinko
03 February 2012 11:33 GMT
SEGA Sammy has released its nine month financial report for the period ending December 31, 2011, revealing a shrinking videogames business but a resurgence in the sales of Pachinko machines.
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Eutechnyx signs Brain in a Jar for latest racing game
03 February 2012 11:24 GMT
Eutechnyx and Brain in a Jar - two UK racing specialists - are teaming for a new project to be announced later in the year.
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Nippon Ichi increases net income forecast to ¥203m
03 February 2012 10:44 GMT
Nippon Ichi's latest consolidated earnings estimate for the fiscal year has increased totals for operating income and net income.
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Zynga designer and Nexon exec join AIAS board
03 February 2012 10:10 GMT
Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds and Nexon America vice president of live games Min Kim are now both members of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Board of Directors.
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Seamus Blackley: iOS is the "new arcade", 99c the "new quarter"
03 February 2012 09:55 GMT
Seamus Blackley, who co-created the Xbox at Microsoft, has founded a new start up making iOS titles, investing personal money into the venture, but also raising investment from THQ.
Innovative >> read more
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Xbox marketing head joins Apple
03 February 2012 09:41 GMT
Former Microsoft head of product marketing Robin Burrowes, who lead marketing and management of Xbox Live in Europe, has made the move to Apple.
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6Waves Lolapps denies breaching NDA with Spry Fox
03 February 2012 09:27 GMT
6Waves Lolapps (6L) CEO Rex Ng has denied that his company breached any NDA agreement with Triple town developer Spry Fox.
Spry Fox fileda >> read more
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GFACE launches Crytek backed freemium service
03 February 2012 09:22 GMT
German company GFACE has launched the live beta for its new, Crytek backed, freemium social gaming service.
GFACE.com offers a mix of core >> read more
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DDM appoints new director of business development
03 February 2012 08:51 GMT
Video game talent agency Digital Development Management has appointed Tehyon 'Tae' Kim as its director of business development.
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Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada founds new studio
03 February 2012 08:28 GMT
Harvest Moon creator and erstwhile Grasshopper COO Yasuhiro Wada has revealed his new Japanese studio, Toybox.
Wada was most recently employed >> read more
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DeNA Studios Canada opens in Vancouver
03 February 2012 08:03 GMT
Japanese company DeNA has become the latest industry name to set up operations in Canada, opening DeNA studios Canada later this month.
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GAME Group agrees new financing terms, predicts £18m loss for year
03 February 2012 08
The GAME Group has been thrown a lifeline by its creditors in the City, which have renegotiated its lending terms to allow the company to continue to operate.
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Hirai Ascendant
03 February 2012 08
It's official at last - after being publicly groomed as Sir Howard Stringer's replacement for the past couple of years, PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has been confirmed as the new president and >> read more
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THQ needs partner to bring Warhammer MMO to market
02 February 2012 21:49 GMT
THQ is currently looking for a partner to bring its MMO Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium to market.
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THQ losses widen to $56m for Q3
02 February 2012 21:22 GMT
Troubled publisher THQ recorded a $56 million net loss for the third quarter ended December 31, compared to losses of $15m for the same period in 2010.
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Q3 profits of $14m for Take-Two, sales of $236m
02 February 2012 16:42 GMT
Take-Two turned a profit of just over $14 million in the quarter ending December 31, 2011 - largely thanks to strong sales of its only major release in the period, NBA 2K12.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic paid subs estimated at 1.3m
02 February 2012 12:17 GMT
America's most influential analysts are putting paying subscribers for EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic at 1.3 million, and a conversion rate of 75 to 80 per cent.
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Oklahoma proposes new games tax
02 February 2012 11:30 GMT
Oklahoma State Representative William Fourkiller has introduced a bill to introduce extra taxes on games rated teen or higher.
Bill HB 2696 >> read more
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Kinect for Windows commercial license launches
02 February 2012 11
Kinect for Windows and its commercial SDK and runtime has now launched in 12 countries, giving companies the chance to put the technology to use.
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Capcom sees profits more than halved, sales down by 29%
02 February 2012 10:35 GMT
Capcom has filed its financial report for the nine months ending December 31, 2011, revealing a drop in profits of 52.6 per cent year-on-year, and a sales shrinkage of 29 per cent.
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Tomoyuki Tsuboi now president of Konami Digital Entertainment
02 February 2012 10:16 GMT
Konami Digital Entertainment has named Tomoyuki Tsuboi as its president.
"My goal is to build upon the momentum the entire Konami DigitalEntertainment >> read more
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Flaregames raises €6m in investment round
02 February 2012 10:07 GMT
Flaregames, the mobile development studio founded by ex-Gameforge head Klaas Kersting, has raised €6 million in venture capital funding from Accel Partners.
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New chief strategy and talent officer for Activision
02 February 2012 09:41 GMT
Activision Blizzard has appointed Humam Sakhini to the newly created role of chief strategy and talent officer.
"Bringing together our strategic >> read more
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GAME confirms renegotiations underway with lenders
02 February 2012 09:22 GMT
The GAME Group has issued a statement which confirms that it is in negotiations with its lending syndicate to establish a new strategy for future credit.
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Gameloft projects 17% revenue rise year-on-year
02 February 2012 09:15 GMT
Parisian mobile developer and publisher Gameloft has predicted a 17 per cent hike in its yearly revenue figures, thanks to an increasing market share for powerful smartphones and tablets.
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Disney snaps up Ignition in UTV acquisition
02 February 2012 08:56 GMT
Disney has acquired UTV Software, the parent company to El Shaddai and Quarrel publisher Ignition.
"Increasing our brand presence and reach >> read more
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Bossa: Social games "will be like the Atari Eighties crash"
02 February 2012 08:09 GMT
Bossa head and co-founder Henrique Olifiers has shared his frustrations at the iterative nature of social game design, and warned of the consequences.
"Social >> read more
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EA expresses concern over "major European retail partner"
02 February 2012 08
Electronic Arts' John Riccitiello has expressed concern that the financial position of an unnamed European retailer could well have considerable negative repercussions for the publisher.
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Bossa Studios: Anti-Social Gaming
02 February 2012 07:39 GMT
London's "Silicon Roundabout" is the beating heart of a resurgent UK tech industry, which really undermines the notion that first impressions mean anything at all. An unwieldy hunk of concrete, >> read more
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Zynga accounted for 12% of Facebook sales in 2011
02 February 2012 07:08 GMT
Facebook has filed for its initial public offering, seeking to raise $5 billion in funding.
According to the company's IPO, sales during 2011 >> read more
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Sony expects full-year losses to reach ¥220 billion
01 February 2012 23:04 GMT
Sony's Consumer Products and Services division, the unit that includes the PlayStation business, has suffered an operating loss of ¥85.7 billion ($1.09 billion) for the third quarter, compared >> read more
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THQ cuts 240 staff as CEO halves salary
01 February 2012 21:43 GMT
Troubled publisher THQ has confirmed it is cutting 240 jobs at the same time that CEO Brian Farrell is to reduce his salary by 50 per cent.
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Origin generates $100m for EA, SWTOR subs hit 1.7m
01 February 2012 16:34 GMT
Electronic Arts has revealed that its digital games service Origin generated $100 million in the 2011 calendar year, from more than 9.3 million consumers.
Releasing >> read more
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Digital Capital ready to fund digital games
01 February 2012 16:13 GMT
Swiss company Digital Capital has launched itself as a "funding vehicle" for digital games, offering funding to mobile, console and PC developers.
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DeNA joins forces with Chinese internet service provider
01 February 2012 14:48 GMT
DeNA has signed a deal with Chinese internet company Baidu to promote the Mobage platform.
Chinese Android phones using the Baidu Yi OS and >> read more
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Channel 4 Education launches Sims 3 show
01 February 2012 14
Channel 4 has launched a new online show, SuperMes, which was created by UK production company Somethin' Else using The Sims 3.
"It's no surprise >> read more
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Nexon and Nexon Mobile to merge
01 February 2012 13:44 GMT
Korean gaming companies Nexon and Nexon Mobile have signed a new merger deal, which should be completed by April.
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Bungie hands over Halo to 343 Industries
01 February 2012 13:26 GMT
Bungie will complete the handover process for Halo on March 31, passing responsibility for the iconic shooter series to Microsoft's internal studio 343 Industries.
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Zynga: We define innovation differently
01 February 2012 12:56 GMT
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus has lashed out at the developers who've accused the company of copying their games, arguing there are only a small number of truly new games.
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GAME: We have no immediate stock problems, staff are being paid
01 February 2012 10:58 GMT
UK retailer GAME has denied reports that it will not be stocking Friday's new releases in its stores, reassuring customers that it has no immediate problems with obtaining stock.
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Konami Europe gets new president
01 February 2012 10:12 GMT
Konami has appointed Shinji Hirano as its new president of Europe.
Hirano was most recently president of the US business, and now overseas >> read more
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More than 170 jobs axed at THQ - rumour
01 February 2012 09:57 GMT
More than 170 staff have been cut from THQ in its most recent round of layoffs, including vice president of technology Mark DeLoura.
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Kixeye: "You can't do game design through data exclusively"
01 February 2012 08:48 GMT
Kixeye's Will Harbin has struck out at companies which he sees as relying too much on metric data and A/B testing, saying that creativity must be the primary motivator for innovative gamedevelopment.
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Sony names Hirai as CEO and president in waiting
01 February 2012 08:30 GMT
Sony has named Kaz Hirai as the successor to Howard Stringer's roles as both president and CEO, effective April 1, 2012.
Stringer, who has >> read more
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Bigpoint passes 250m registered users
01 February 2012 08:13 GMT
German free-to-play company Bigpoint now has more than 250 million registered users for its browser-based online games.
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Vita download codes to cost less than boxed games
01 February 2012 08
Sony has confirmed that pricing for Vita download codes will be around 10 per cent less than physical media versions of the same games, at least in the US and Japan.
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Kixeye's War Commander
31 January 2012 18
The company name Kixeye is probably already familiar to you. Either you're a fan of their Facebook titles like War Commander, Battle Pirates and Backyard Monsters, or you've read about their copycat troubles >> read more
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Spil users spend up to €45 on free-to-play games
31 January 2012 11:58 GMT
Users of the Spil Games network spend up to €45 ($59/£37) on its free-to-play games according to new data released by the company.
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THQ threatened with Nasdaq delisting
31 January 2012 11:41 GMT
Saints Row publisher THQ has been threatened with delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
The company has until July 23 for bid price of >> read more
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