The Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts - better known as the Elans - took place in Vancouver over the weekend and the headline winner was Mass Effect, which took home five awards in total.
Developers took to the stage at D.I.C.E. Summit 2008 to argue the merits of building or buying game technology, with the battlelines being drawn between Insomniac on one side, Epic Games on the other, and Ubisoft stuck in the middle
Ahead of financial reports from Nintendo and Ubisoft, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter is anticipating revenue growth for both companies
An in-game advertising campaign run by Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) last year in two Tom Clancy videogames prompted a 500 per cent increase in activity on the related recruitment web site, it has been revealed.
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
Fabrice Pierre-Elien has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that he sees the development of new intellectual property as crucial for the company, but that creating additional franchises can help to improve the quality of games.
Following last week's general market decline, the subsequent optimism surrounding strong retail performances in both the US and Japan have seen gaming shares fare rather better across the board.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed have charted in both Spain and Germany according to weekly sales data released by Media-Control GfK International
LOVEFiLM, best known for DVD rentals through companies such as AOL, Tesco and WHSmith, is to utilise its marketing resources for a first major games campaign.
Yves Guillemot, president and CEO of Ubisoft, has stated his belief that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are very close in terms of what is possible from a development perspective.