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E for All game career seminar detailed
IDG World Expo has announced the session line up for the Game Career Seminar scheduled to take place during the Entertainment for All Expo
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Senior PR director leaves Nintendo
Nintendo's senior director of public relations, Beth Llewelyn, has officially announced that she is leaving the company
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Emergent establishes Japan presence
Emergent Game Technologies has announced the formation of Emergent Japan KK, to be managed by Acquire
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Habbo designer doesn't see online communities on consoles
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, the lead designer of Habbo Hotel expressed his doubts about the viability of online communities on current generation consoles
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Trion hires two new executives
Trion World Network has announced the hiring of Peter Matiss and Won Seuok Chung
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Babel seeking functionality and localisation testers
Babel, a games industry outsource company, announced today that they are recruiting 150 new functionality and localisation testers
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Halo 3 sets US entertainment record
Microsoft has announced that Halo 3 has officially become the biggest entertainment launch in history, garnering an estimated $170 million in sales in the US alone in the first 24 hours
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New racing IP for Activison, suggests analyst
Responding to Activision's acquisition of Bizarre Creations, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter thinks that the developer could create a new multiplatform racing IP
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Activision acquires Bizzare Creations
Activision has announced the acquisition of UK-based developer Bizarre Creations
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Playlogic signs publishing, distribution deal with Ignition
Playlogic Entertainment announced that it has signed a publishing and distribution agreement with Ignition Entertainment for the North American market
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Firebrand opens US office
Firebrand Games, a Glasgow, UK-based developer of racing games, has opened an office in Florida
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Microsoft to replace scratched Halo 3 disks
Following reports that defective packaging for the limited edition of Halo 3 allow the game to come loose and become scratched, Microsoft has added the game to its disc replacement program
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Lyon GDC registration opens
The Lyon Game Developers Conference has opened for registration at its new website
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Halo 3: Midnight madness
For employees at the GameStop in Folsom, California, one of the 10,000 US retailers opening at midnight, the launch of Halo 3 was just as big as expected
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WCG announces final plans
The World Cyber Games has announced the details for the WCG 2007 Grand Final to be held in Seattle, Washington this October
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Halo 3 may generate $170 million Q1 revenue
According to Goldman Sachs analysts, Halo 3 may generate USD 170 million in revenue during Microsoft's first quarter which ends five days after the game's launch
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Halo 3 pre-orders reach 1.5 million in US
With less than 24 hours to go before the game's launch, Microsoft has reported that it has already sold more than 1.5 million copies of Halo 3 in the US
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Ubisoft's announces holiday lineup
Ubisoft has announced its holiday 2007 line-up, with Hell's Highway missing its previously announced release window
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Microsoft: Europe is our top priority
With worldwide sales of the Wii recently overtaking the Xbox 360 worldwide, Microsoft has set its sights on Europe
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BBFC to hold seminar on classifying games
Following the recent attention given to the BBFC classification process over the Manhunt 2 ban, the organisation has announced a seminar explaining the process
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Folding@home reaches Petaflop mark
The Folding@home distributed computing project of Stanford University has reached the petaflop mark
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SXSW Interactive to stage first UK event
South by Southwest Interactive, an annual US technology conference and festival, will be bringing a taste of the event to the UK for the first time in October
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More than 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles sold
Ahead of the highly-anticipated launch of Halo 3, Microsoft has released updated statistics related to its Xbox 360 console
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Czech-based developers form The Easy Company
A number of Czech-based game development veterans have announced the existence of The Easy Company s.r.o., a new Prague-based studio