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Publisher Take Two Interactive has finalised its acquisition of TDK Mediactive, but the deal excludes one of TDK's most high profile properties, with Dreamworks' Shrek IP going instead to Activision.

The performance of Vivendi Universal Games has continued to decline, with the company's third quarter results revealing a massive €58 million operating loss and falling revenues.

Sony celebrated the third anniversary of the PS2's UK launch last week, and next week seems likely to break past the five million unit mark in terms of UK sales, despite a general year-on-year decline in console sales.

Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun was the UK's best selling game last week, as EA continued to dominate the pre-Christmas best sellers list, with the top four titles all bearing the publisher's name.

A number of features have been removed from the original specification of the PSX home media centre, in a move which Sony claims is necessary in order to launch the system before Christmas.

UK development studio Warthog has warned that its first-half results are likely to show a loss of some £2 million, with more losses to come in the full year due to difficult trading conditions caused by a number of factors.

Videogames fashion label Joystick Junkies is set to start Advent with a bang this Thursday, with a masked party featuring club legends Dirty Vegas - and we have 20 guest list passes to give away to our readers.

A picture purporting to be concept art of Sony's next-generation console, the PlayStation 3, has been circulated on the Internet, showing a sleek silver console with a slot-loading DVD drive.

Sony is set to finally roll out the PlayStation 2 in China on December 20, priced at 1,988 Yuan (€200) and accompanied by two software titles, Ape Escape 2 and ICO, which will retail for 168 Yuan (€17) each.

Nokia has today unveiled seven previously unannounced N-Gage titles for release in 2004 - Ashen, Operation Shadow, Requiem of Hell, Sega Rally Championship, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm, Worms and WWE.

ESC, the Entertainment Software Charity, has announced the launch of a new games pack for the Xbox, which will comprise three popular software titles sold for £29.99, with the proceeds going to disadvantaged young people.

Dennis Publishing's annual Golden Joysticks award ceremony saw Nintendo storm home with five statuettes for its shelves, with public voting for the awards this year topping 88,000 registered votes.

The division of Sony responsible for the PlayStation product line, Sony Computer Entertainment, is to become a wholly owned subsidiary thanks to a new deal which will see Ken Kutaragi returning his stake to the parent company.

Championship Manager developer Sports Interactive has signed a publishing deal with Sega Europe for its new title, ice hockey management sim Eastside Hockey; <i>gi.biz</i> spoke to managing director Miles Jacobson.

Microsoft's Xbox has had its most successful week to date this year in Japan, capturing almost 7 per cent market share following a price cut to the hardware and the launch of a Project Gotham Racing 2 bundle deal.

Full details of the delayed launch of the PlayStation 2 in the Chinese marketplace will be announced by Sony China tomorrow, as the company prepares to stake a claim in one of the world's largest emerging markets.

Sales of downloadable mobile games to N-Gage users have outstripped sales to Nokia 3510i users by 8 per cent despite a huge disparity in the installed base for the devices, according to UK mobile game retailer mProvision.

British developer Kuju Entertainment has announced plans to build on recent successes by dividing into four core business units, giving each of its divisions more autonomy and preparing a clear strategy for future growth.

A new GameCube incentive from Nintendo will see the company offering a collector's disc featuring four classic Zelda games and a demo of Zelda: Wind Waker for free with every purchase of the console.

The first paid-for downloadable content on Microsoft's Xbox Live service has appeared, in the form of a new package for MechAssault which adds new multiplayer content to the game for a $5 fee.

Activists from the US Haitian community have joined in a protest against Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at New York's City Hall, claiming that the title "advocates the killing of Haitians as entertainment."

Comments made by SCEE vice president Phil Harrison in an interview with the Australian Financial Review suggest that a more advanced version of the EyeToy motion sensor is being considered for PlayStation 3.

Nintendo's Cube revival has continued in impressive fashion in time for the Christmas rush, with Chart-Track figures released today placing the console ahead of the Xbox for the first time in weeks.