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Massively multiplayer title specialist NCsoft has announced that Guild Wars, its online role-playing game which launched worldwide back in April, has now seen over a million accounts registered in the game.

UK developer Circle Studio, founded by former Core Design bosses Jeremy Heath-Smith and Adrian Smith, has announced that it intends to float on the AIM market in London next month.

Speaking to <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> at the Tokyo Games Show, Xbox VP Peter Moore has praised Nintendo's "innovation with the new [Revolution] controller", and reiterated the need for the industry to grow into new markets.

In the second part of our extensive interview with Xbox VP Peter Moore at the Tokyo Games Show, we discuss the Xbox 360's online strategy, relationships with Japanese publishers - and Moore's thoughts on the Revolution controller.

Speaking with <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> at the Tokyo Games Show, Microsoft Xbox VP Peter Moore has said that initiatives such as premium content downloads will offer great "value for money" for Xbox 360 consumers.

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has pinned his colours firmly to Sony's mast in the next generation console battle, with a hugely impressive trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 being presented at the Tokyo Game Show.

Speaking on the first day of the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has unveiled the innovative new controller design for the Revolution console - a one-handed device which detects its own location relative to the screen.

Speaking exclusively to <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i>, Nintendo's head of European Developer Business, Marko Hein, has called on the videogames industry to work harder at understanding its markets.

With Microsoft hoping to sway Japanese gamers to the Xbox 360, Nintendo unveiling the Revolution controller and the first PS3 games set to emerge, the Tokyo Games Show this weekend will see the true beginning of the next-gen battle.

Microsoft's next-generation console, Xbox 360, is set to launch on November 22nd in North America, followed by a European launch on December 2nd and a Japanese launch on December 10th.

Microsoft Japan has announced pricing and launch details for the Xbox 360 in Japan, with the console set to launch in the region at 37,900 Yen (around 280 Euro) including a hard drive, wireless joypad and multimedia remote control.

The state of California looks set to become the second US state to pass laws restricting the sale of violent videogames to minors, after the California state senate and assembly both overwhelmingly voted in favour of AB1179.

The recent delay to the roll-out of Toshiba's next-gen DVD standard, HD-DVD, has led a senior Sony Pictures executive to confidently predict that Sony's rival Blu-Ray standard will dominate the market within 12 months.

The latest figures from market data firm NPD show that overall industry growth for the month of August was completely flat in the USA, with EA's Madden NFL 2006 being the top-selling title by a huge margin.

Details of the various pricing plans for the Xbox Live service on Xbox 360 have been officially revealed, confirming earlier reports which hinted at a variety of subscription packs with different price points and benefits.

Activision Publishing president Kathy Vrabeck resigned earlier this month, the company has announced, with the well-respected executive stepping down from her position as an officer of the firm effective immediately.

Publisher Take-Two Interactive has announced its financial results for the third fiscal quarter, revealing losses broadly in line with the firm's projections, but also showing that key title Bully has dropped back to next year.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corporation is set to acquire top US videogames website publisher IGN Entertainment in a deal worth some $650 million, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today.

Attendance figures for this year's Game Developers Conference Europe have been announced by organisers CMP Game Group, with twice as many delegates turning up for the three-day event than made the trip last year.

The official floor plan for the forthcoming Tokyo Game Show has revealed that Sega, Sony, Konami and Namco will have the largest booths at the event, followed closely by Microsoft - with next-gen titles likely to be high on the agenda.