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Hardcore shooter market too narrow, says Rainbow Six designer

Ubisoft will likely steer clear of hardcore shooters because the market is too narrow for it to be a viable business choice said Rainbow Six Vegas 2 game designer Phil Therien

March 14, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Stock Report: March 10 - 14

Game stocks fail to reflect strong February sales

March 14, 2008 Mark Androvich

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CPL ceases operations

The Cyberathlete Professional League has ceased operations as of March 13

March 14, 2008 Mark Androvich

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New president for Hands-On Mobile

Hands On Mobile has announced the appointment of Niccolo de Masi as President of the company

March 14, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Call of Duty 4 tops US sales in February

March 13, 2008 Mark Androvich

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SOE to report to Sony Computer Entertainment

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that Sony Online Entertainment will now report to Kazuo Hirai under a new company structure designed to address the growth of the online gaming market

March 13, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Ubisoft extends Calyon equity swap contract

Ubisoft Entertainment and Calyon have mutually agreed to extend an equity swap contract originally signed in 2003 and extended in 2006

March 13, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Darling's budget a "missed opportunity" says Tiga CEO

Tiga CEO Richard Wilson has said that Alistair Darling's first budget was a missed opportunity that failed to help UK games developers

March 13, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Brash signs development deal with Factor 5

Brash Entertainment has announced a multiiple game development deal with Factor 5

March 13, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Atari seeks extension of Infogrames offer

Atari Inc. has informed parent company Infogrames that it will not be in a position to respond to the buyout offer by the original March 11 deadline

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Guitar Hero violates Gibson Guitar patent?

Gibson Guitar is alleging that Activision's Guitar Hero videogames infringe one of the companies patents, resulting in Activision filing a lawsuit to ask a US court to find the claim invalid

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Atari titles now available via Steam

Atari Inc. and Valve have announced an agreement to bring a variety of PC games from the Atari catalog to the Steam delivery platform

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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ELSPA disappointed with budget

ELSPA has responded to the budget statement released today by UK Chancellor Alistair Darling

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Sean Ratcliffe named new Sega America VP of marketing

Sega of America has announced that it has named Sean Ratcliffe vice president of marketing effective March 3, 2008

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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More than 50 studios download Gamebryo for PS3

Emergent Game Technologies have announced that more than fifty PlayStation 3 game development studios have downloaded Gamebryo since its debut on PS3 DevNet on February 17

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Moderation an issue with user-generated content, says Home lead artist

The creative director and lead artist of Home want to push user-generated content as a feature, but recognise that moderation and the quality bar are big issues

March 12, 2008 Mark Androvich

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BioShock 2 sequel coming from 2K Marin

In conjunction with the release of its financial reports for Q1 2008, Take-Two has announced that BioShock 2 is in development and planned for a Q4 2009 release

March 11, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Take-Two reports $38 million Q1 loss

Take-Two released its financial results for Q1 2008 today, reporting a net loss of USD 38 million - an increase of 77 per cent from its Q1 2007 net loss of USD 21.5 million

March 11, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Registration opens for Paris GDC

Think Services, organisers of the Game Developers Conference, and Connection Events have announced that registration for the Paris Game Developers Conference is now open via its website

March 11, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Shareholder sues Take-Two over buyout rejection

Take-Two has been sued by a shareholder alleging that the company's management improperly tried to keep the Electronic Arts buyout offer secret to enrich its executives

March 11, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Music/rhythm gameplay can still evolve, says LoPiccolo

March 11, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Leader of the Band

Harmonix' Greg LoPiccolo on how the music/rhythm genre became accessible and his ideas for the future of the Rock Band franchise

March 11, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Will Microsoft drop Xbox 360 price in US?

With the recently-announced Xbox 360 price cuts in Europe, a US price drop may not be far behind according to some analysts

March 10, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Orange Box earns more than 100 awards

Valve has announced that The Orange Box - its multiplatform, multi-game offering - has earned over 100 first place awards for both the compilation and the individual titles

March 10, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Instruments made it work, says Harmonix' LoPiccolo

Harmonix' Greg LoPiccolo said that the gameplay has been in the company's games all along, but it just took a while for them to present it in a way that people would grasp what it was about

March 10, 2008 Mark Androvich