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The MMO specialist has released its financial results for the quarter ended March 31st, in which both profits and sales were up. On a consolidated basis, sales came to $84.3 million, (88.1 billion Korean Won) operating income of US $18.9 million (KRW 19.7 billion), and net profit of US $7.7 …

A recent report by New York’s Centre for an Urban Future has said the core games industry is badly represented in the Big Apple – but adds that the city it is one of the leading clusters in North America when it comes to casual games. The report, called Getting …

Do you know where the casual games phenomenon has come from? Does it seem a little like it’s arrived out of nowhere? MCV’s sister site Casualgaming.biz has handily published a full history of the genre – all the way back to 2200 BC – when the ancient Chinese Emperor Tang …

IDG Research obtained by MCV states that the core gamer market is saturated – and unless more publishers and platform holders embrace casual gaming, the industry could stagnate. The claims are backed up by IDG figures which reveal that the last few years of industry expansion have been driven almost …

Codemasters Online’s vice president David Solari has hit out at the number of developers rushing out casual games after signing a deal to bring a range of Mumbo Jumbo titles to retail. The deal kicks off with ten new games set for release on April 25th on the Funsta label …

EA’s The Sims Studio is looking to lure traditional gamers to the next installment in the franchise, The Sims 3, with more ‘goal-orientated’ gameplay. Speaking exclusively to MCV, the division’s creative director Rod Humble also revealed that his MMO background would help the franchise move away from its simulation past. …

NCsoft plans to build two new online titles using Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. The two firms have announced a licensing deal for the engine which discloses that NCsoft will gain access to all the latest updates to UE3 which make it "the best possible offering for cross-platform game development for …

After a web-based leak at the weekend appeared to announce the existence of Prey 2, official word has now emerged of the follow-up to 2K Games’ Xbox 360 and PC FPS. The game is being handled by new developer Radar Group, which is being headed up by 3D Realms’ Scott …

An ex-employee of North American games rating body the ESRB has stated that the firm doesn’t actually play the games it rates, Gamepolitics.com reports. Jerry Bonner, who claims to have rated over 700 games in his six months at the company, stated: The ESRB’s current pool of fulltime raters does …

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