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British publisher SCi has announced that it is on track to deliver significantly better than expected results for the six months to March 31st thanks to strong back catalogue sales, with anticipated losses pared back significantly.

Both Activision and THQ have raised their financial projections for the current quarter as stronger than expected videogame sales throughout the first calendar quarter of 2004 made themselves known on the industry's bottom lines.

Microsoft is planning to slash the price of the Xbox in North America in the next couple of days, according to a report from a key US industry analyst, while other evidence suggests that the cut may extend to other territories.

Following a series of threats of legal action over the past weeks, Florida-based broadband console proponent Infinium Labs has finally filed a lawsuit against technology news website HardOCP over an article written last September.

Californian developer Oddworld Inhabitants is seeking a new publisher for its next Xbox game in the Oddworld universe, tentatively titled Stranger, as Microsoft no longer has any involvement with the title.

Sony has announced that electronics giants Samsung and Sharp are to provide the LCD screens for its forthcoming PlayStation Portable console, in a deal which could be worth up to €330 million annually.

Samurai action was at the top of the Japanese charts again this week, as Koei's Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires continued the success of the popular series with a number one debut and the market as a whole pushed past a million units once more.

The website for next September's multi-platform consumer games show at ExCeL, GameStars Live, has gone online, offering the public a chance to pre-book their tickets for the event.

Japanese publisher Capcom has shut down a number of its smaller development studios, with the Osaka-based company closing offices including Tokyo and Nagoya - with the main effect being that the firm no longer has an in-house PC development team.

The world's first public showing of software for the PSP has taken place at the Game Developers Conference, with an exclusive title from Backbone Entertainment being demonstrated during a presentation by Sony's Andrew House.

Speaking to <I>gi.biz</I> at the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft's global head of game content Peter Moore has ruled out the possibility of the company launching a mobile games console to compete with PSP or GBA.