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Trauma Studios, the creator of the popular Desert Combat free modification for Battlefield 1942, has been signed into a commercial deal with BF'42 creators Digital Illusions CE (DICE) to collaborate on future games in the series.

Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal has announced its revenue figures for the fourth quarter and full year of 2003, revealing that the company's videogames division suffered a 28 per cent drop in revenues during the year.

Microsoft has announced plans to launch the Xbox Live gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore this April, continuing the Asian roll-out of the service following last October's launch in South Korea.

Austrian publisher JoWooD claims to have completed the turnaround of its business, with the company posting a full-year profit of €3.6 million and achieving a 30 per cent increase in revenue in its core business areas during 2003.

Japanese publisher Sega has announced that its net profit for the nine months to December 31st rose by some 92 per cent, although the December quarter saw declining revenues and profits.

French publisher Ubisoft has announced its consolidated sales figures for the quarter ended December 31st, revealing a 20 per cent rise over the previous year and leaving the company on track to meet its full year targets.

Major US retailer GameStop has announced that it is to stop selling Nokia's N-Gage game deck 450 of its stores, representing almost a third of its retail outlets, with remaining inventory being moved to other stores.

The offices of German developer Crytek, currently finishing work on PC first person shooter Far Cry for Ubisoft, were allegedly raided by police this morning following a tip-off from a former employee regarding pirated software.

Implementing control systems which use voice recognition in PlayStation 2 games is set to become easier, with voice recognition systems developer Fonix announcing that it has signed up to Sony's Tools and Middleware program.

Following the recent announcement that he has acquired the rights to make a movie based on Eidos' Fear Effect games, producer/director Uwe Boll is also set to make films based on Dungeon Siege and BloodRayne.

Valve's massively anticipated first person shooter, Half-Life 2, will not meet the April date announced for the game last year by publisher Vivendi, and is now set for a summer release according to a statement from the developer.

Electronic Arts continues to dominate the UK software charts, with Need for Speed Underground holding on to the number one position as the first major batch of new releases of 2004 fail to make much impact on the market.

French publisher Infogrames has reported of its last nine months of trading, revealing that the company's operating profits have climbed significantly, but US subsidiary Atari has announced poor results for the last quarter of 2003.

Sony has announced that it is to invest 131 billion Yen (€988m) in chip fabrication facilities for the Cell microprocessor at factories belonging to both itself and Cell consortium partners Toshiba and IBM.