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Hothead Games to publish Ron Gilbert's DeathSpank
Hothead Games has announced that it will publish Ron Gilbert's RPG-Adventure game, DeathSpank
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Game Developer names 2007 Front Line award winners
The editors of CMP's Game Developer magazine have named the winners for the 2007 Front Line Awards
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ELSPA meets with MP Brazier to discuss rating classification
Paul Jackson, director general of the ELSPA, recently met with Julian Braizer MP to discuss his Private Members Bill.
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Format war doesn't significantly impact 360, says Microsoft
Last week's decision by Warner Bros. to abandon the HD DVD format in favor of Blu-ray should not affect sales of the Xbox 360 according to a Microsoft spokesperson
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Meier to receive lifetime achievement award
CMP's 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards announced that it will honour developer Sid Meier with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's ceremony
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Vivendi titles heading to Nokia handsets
Vivendi Games Mobile, a division of Vivendi Games, announced an agreement to bring a line-up of its mobile games to Nokia handsets via Download! and Nokia Catalogues
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Gearbox establishes scholars program at SMU
Gearbox Software, the Brothers in Arms developer based in Texas, has pledged nearly USD 50,000 in scholarships and support to help establish the Fellows Scholars program at The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University
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Wii, Nintendo DS awarded tech Emmys
For the second year in a row, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has honoured Nintendo with an Emmy Award for excellence in engineering creativity
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Square Enix plans western expansion
Square Enix' president thinks that Europe has great potential for growth and wants his company to be stronger in that market
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CES 08: Blu-ray movies to PSP
At the company's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony demonstrated Blu-ray movie discs embedded with a lower-resolution version of the film for portable devices
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Turtles top XBLA game for 2007
Microsoft has released Xbox Live statistics for 2007, establishing the 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coin-op game as the top-selling XBox Live Arcade game for the year
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CNET subject to hostile takeover?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that hedge fund Jana Partners LLC, which holds an 8.1 per cent stake in CNET, plans to nominate seven people to the online media company's board
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State Senator seeks videogame tax
In order to pay for an increase in juvenile justice system costs related to his bill raising the age of an adult for court purposes, a Wisconsin state senator has proposed a tax on videogames
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Lawsuit filed over Xbox Live problems
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Texas seeking USD 5 million in damages for problems related to the Xbox Live service
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Vivendi appoints new strategy and development VP
Vivendi announced today that Regis Turrini has been appointed senior executive vice president for strategy and development
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Disney-ABC and MGM to offer Xbox Live Marketplace content
Microsoft has announced that it will be adding entertainment content to the US Xbox Live Marketplace from Disney-ABC Television Group and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
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Sony confirms Skype for PSP
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it will introduce Skype features to the new slim PSP
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Warner Brothers sides with Blu-ray
Warner Brothers has announced that it will be releasing movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format this year, phasing out HD DVD production by May
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Cranium games coming from EA?
Electronic Arts licensing agreement with Hasbro may now include Cranium games, according to a Wachovia Capital Markets analyst
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Mad Catz signs Rock Band licensing deal
Mad Catz has signed a multi-year licensing deal to create instrument peripherals for Harmonix and MTV's Rock Band game
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Virgin Megastores videogame sales up 111.9 per cent
Virgin has announced Q4 financial results for its Virgin Megastores retailers, reporting growth of 11.5 per cent over the same quarter last year
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Futurist Kurzweil to give GDC 08 keynote
The organisers of the 2008 Game Developers Conference have announced that Ray Kurzweil will be giving a keynote speech entitled "The Next 20 Years of Gaming."
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SOE appoints Slagle as PR manager
Sony Online Entertainment has appointed Matt Slagle to the newly-created role of public relations manager
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Forbes: Nvidia is company of the year
Forbes business magazine has chosen Nvidia as its "Company of the Year" for 2007