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UK Charts: Mario and Sonic remain in the lead

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games took the top spot on the UK all formats sales chart for the third consecutive week according to data released by Chart Track

Feb. 25, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Sony opens up PS3 advertising

Sony's opening up of its in-game advertising platform will spark a battle among Double Fusion, IGA and AdScape

Feb. 25, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Koch Media to distribute two Wii titles in Europe

Koch Media has announced a deal with ZeniMax Europe Ltd. to distribute two Nintendo Wii titles in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, and the Netherlands

Feb. 25, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Sports games alone justify EA's Take-Two offer, says Pachter

Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pacther said that sports games, not Grand Theft Auto alone, provide the impetus for EA's offer to purchase Take-Two

Feb. 24, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Stock Report: February 18 - 22

US stocks gained for a second week on record high oil prices and news of a plan to save credit ratings for bond insurers

Feb. 24, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GDC: Original IPs can learn from movie games

Developers of original IPs can learn from movie games says Stormfront Studios president Don Daglow

Feb. 22, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GDC: Leverage Will Be Key to Sony's Victory

SCEA's product marketing vp Scott Steinberg on why 2008 is going to be the PS3's year

Feb. 22, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GDC: Finding perceived value for peripherals

Mike Haigh, studio director of SCEE London, spoke to GDC attendees about the process involved in developing peripherals and their associated software applications

Feb. 22, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GDC: Games on the cutting edge of societal evolution, says Kurzweil

Author, inventor and noted futurist Ray Kurzweil delivered a keynote speech at GDC in which he attempted to forecast the next 20 years in gaming

Feb. 21, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GDC: Portal captures Game of the Year honours

The 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards were announced this evening at GDC in San Francisco, with Valve's Portal taking the highest honour

Feb. 21, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GDC: Brash not interested in acquisitions

Despite a significant level of funding, Brash Entertainment isn't about to get caught up in acquisitions any time soon

Feb. 20, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Putting tech in motion

Torsten Reil on the tech in GTA IV, Star Wars and Indiana Jones

Feb. 20, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Autodesk purchases Kynogon

Autodesk has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Kynogon, creator of the Kynapse artificial intelligence middleware

Feb. 19, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Virtual worlds need games

As the three "spheres" of social networks, virtual worlds and MMOs collide, their creators can learn from each other said Turbine's Jeffrey Steefel

Feb. 19, 2008 Mark Androvich

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N-gage's Second Coming

Nokia's Dr. Mark Ollila on the challenges N-Gage was designed to overcome

Feb. 19, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Stock Report: February 11 - 15

Economic reports showed that confidence among US consumers has slumped to the lowest level in 16 years, with factory output failing to increase, pushing the economy closer to a recession

Feb. 16, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Dead Head Fred wins inaugural WGA award

Dead Head Fred has won the Writers Guild of America's inaugural Videogame Writing Award at the 2008 Writers Guild Awards

Feb. 15, 2008 Mark Androvich

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GameStop raises financial guidance

GameStop has raised its fourth quarter and full-year financial guidance based upon higher than expected January sales

Feb. 15, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Ex-Naughty Dogs form Big Red Button

Former Naughty Dog employees Bob Rafei and E. Daniel Arey have incorporated a new development studio named Big Red Button Entertainment

Feb. 15, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Take-Two announces executive appointments

Take-Two Interactive Software has announced several executive appointments, including naming current non-executive chairman Strauss Zelnick to the position of executive chairman

Feb. 15, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Capcom seeks declaratory judgment over zombie dispute

Capcom has filed a lawsuit requesting a declaratory judgement against MKR Productions, the copyright owners of the Dawn of the Dead films

Feb. 15, 2008 Mark Androvich

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NPD: PS3 outsells 360, DS in January

The NPD Group has released US videogame sales figures for the month of January, reporting sales of USD 1.18 billion

Feb. 15, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Nintendo asks US to address worldwide game piracy

Nintendo of America has asked the US Trade Representative to encourage governments around the world to take a more aggressive stance to combat piracy of Nintendo videogames and systems

Feb. 14, 2008 Mark Androvich

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Blu-ray disc sales pass 2 million mark in Europe

According to the Blu-ray disc association European promotions committee, Blu-ray disc movie sales across Europe have eclipsed the 2 million barrier a mere two months after reaching the 1 million unit mark

Feb. 14, 2008 Mark Androvich