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The Writer's Guild of America, currently locked in a strike against Hollywood movie and television studios, has announced the nominees for its first-ever videogame writing award

The organisers of GDC 2008 have announced that Microsoft's John Schappert will be presenting a keynote at the upcoming conference

The CMP Group, organisers of the annual Game Developers Conference, have announced that Nintendo will be hosting three sessions at this year's event

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada thinks that the diversification of hardware, with very different offerings from each manufacturer, is a positive thing

P2 Entertainment, formerly known as Perpetual Entertainment, has ceased development on Star Trek Online according to multiple sources

Majesco Entertainment Company has reported Q4 earnings for the period ending October 31, 2007 showing a net loss of $961,000

Codemasters Online has announced that the company's new MMO game, scheduled for release in late 2008, will be unveiled and fully playable for the first time at Connect 2008

A Nikko Citigroup analyst says that Sony has successfully cut PS3 production costs in half

Ahead of December NPD data to be released later this week, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian estimates a 20 to 25% increase in software sales

Hasbro is attempting to shut down Facebook's Scrabble knockoff Scrabulous

Nintendo of America has announced the appointment of two sales and marketing executives at the company's new Bay Area office in Redwood City, California

Spacetime, an Austin-based studio, has announced that NCSoft will no longer be funding the company's MMO project

A patent infringement lawsuit was been filed against Nintendo and Sony in the Pennsylvania Western District Court on December 27, 2007

In comments recently made on his blog, the outspoken God of War and Twisted Metal developer said the features that might be lost without console competition would be made up for in terms of massive content choice

Following Sony Japan's announcement that it would be discontinuing the 20GB and 60GB model PlayStation 3, SCEA indicated that it had no plans to change its current focus

Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson said that he saw signs of a tougher retail climate,and that his company would feel the strain if its customers did

Outspark, a new publisher and operator of free online community games, announced it has secured up to USD 11 million in Series B financing

Autodesk has announced that it will be hosting a combined 3ds Max and Maya developer conference in Scottsdale, Arizona from May 5-8, 2008

Gimme5games and Mochi Media have announced the 2008 Casual Gameplay Design Competition

GameStop has reported a 34.7 per cent increase in sales results for the nine-week holiday period ending January 5, 2008.

Valve Corporation has announced the acquisition of Orange County-based development house Turtle Rock Studios

GamesIndustry.biz' Patrick Garratt summarises the just-completed 2008 CES

Although Philips' goal is still to encourage the development of games programmed specifically with amBX in mind, the company has spent the last year thinking about how to satisfy the consumer’s more immediate need for content

Valve and NVIDIA have entered into an agreement to collaborate on development, distribution and events, with Valve offering all NVIDIA gamers a free copy of Portal: First Slice