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Activision announced its earnings for the first quarter of its 2006 fiscal year, ending June 30, reporting revenues of $241.1 million - a 14 per cent growth over the same period last year, but a gain which saw it enter a higher tax bracket.

Market information provider NPD Group has reported solid retail sales for videogames in the USA for the first six months of 2005, with a 21 per cent increase in figures overall and Gran Turismo 4 leading the field in software sales.

Another company has become a casualty in the console market as Tapwave announced on its <a type="ext" href="http://www.tapwave.com/">official website</a> that it has shut down the business dealing with its Palm powered Zodiac handheld.

Universal Pictures has bought the rights to create a film adaptation of Sony Computer Entertainment's critically acclaimed PlayStation 2 action-adventure, God of War, according to trade magazine Variety.