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Publisher Bam! Entertainment has announced that it is preparing for a private offering of some 1.85 million shares of stock, following weak Q4 results which saw deepening losses and falling turnover.

Graphics chipset manufacturer ATI has unveiled the latest additions to its Radeon range of high-end graphics cards, with Valve's Gabe Newell on hand to praise the cards' performance in the now-delayed Half-Life 2

Scottish development group VIS Entertainment has shut down the London development studio which it acquired from BAM! Entertainment less than a year ago, citing project delays and cancellations as the cause.

Namco's Soul Calibur II has gone straight to the top of the UK All-Formats chart, also topping the GameCube and Xbox chart in the process - while EA has also had a great week, with four new titles in the top ten.

UK publisher Codemasters is set to float on the stock exchange in a move which will value the company at around £100 million, according to a report published in London's freesheet newspaper Metro this morning.

French publisher Ubisoft has applied for an injunction to prevent key staff who worked on the Splinter Cell project from taking new jobs with Electronic Arts, a move which it claims breaks a clause in their contracts.

The new edition of the PlayStation 2 hardware, the SCPH-50000, which offers improved DVD playback, is set to arrive in the UK this week at the same time as Sony cuts the price of the PS2 to £139.99.

Overall software sales in Japan dipped below half a million units last week as the flow of new releases which had sustained the market through the summer dried up, leaving the top ten entirely composed of older titles.

Interplay has ended its distribution agreement with Vivendi Universal Games and says that it is considering legal action against the publisher following a dispute over the payment of royalties.

Bath-based development studio Pivotal Games has been purchased by British publisher SCi following the collapse of its parent company, Kaboom Studios, earlier this month.

Dennis Publishing's Golden Joysticks videogame awards are set to be broadcast to an audience of up to eight million viewers on music TV channel MTV, thanks to a new sponsorship deal with the channel.

Nintendo plans to launch a wireless link-up adapter for the Game Boy Advance and GBA SP next year, according to a press release from Motorola, who will be providing the wireless chipset.

Sony is to cut the price of its flagship console to £139 next Wednesday, with the limited edition silver version sinking to £149. Will Microsoft respond?

Terry Malham and Leo Zullo, the two people behind the success of CDV UK, have launched their own start-up publisher under the label of Digital Jesters, with the first titles due to launch at the end of November.

UK publisher Empire Interactive has announced its figures for the first half of 2003, revealing a move back into profitability for the company on the back of record half-year revenues.

Japanese console giant Nintendo is set to become the first of the current platform holders to launch a games system in China, with a new console sporting strong anti-piracy systems set to arrive next month.

One of the most popular RPGs of all time, Final Fantasy VII, is set for a revival, with Square Enix unveiling a new title set after the events of the first epic story - but it's not yet clear whether it's even a videogame.

Sony has announced that it will be publishing Argonaut's I-Ninja for Namco in Europe, with the title - available on all three consoles in the USA - being released as a PS2 exclusive during Q1 2004.

Publisher Atari has become the latest company to cut back on developer support for the GameCube, confirming that it has cancelled versions of Terminator 3 and Driver 3 for Nintendo's home console.

The game publishing division of multinational media empire Vivendi Universal has announced its results for the first half of the current fiscal year, revealing a significant loss and a drop in turnover.