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Microsoft pushes Mizuguchi, Sakaguchi, and Itagaki produced games at Tokyo event

At the Yebisu Garden Hall, Takashi Sensui, general manager of the Home and Entertainment Division at Microsoft took to the stage of the Xbox 360 Briefing 2007 to showcase the number of forthcoming titles available on the platform and show the support it is enjoying from the Japanese development community. …

MCV sister mag Develop reports that Denmark’s Deadline Games is planning for a major ramp up of its production capacity after signing a massive deal with Eidos for ten new games. The three-year agreement covers ten games based on characters taken from the Hanna-Barbera studio licensed to Eidos by Warner …

Dan Cornelius, UK marketing manager for Xbox 360 hardware has said that the Xbox 360 price drop will inevitably lead to flood of consumer uptake for the Microsoft console – and that the move has highlighted the differentiation between it and Sony’s PS3 by not forcing consumers to foot a …

Top Vivendi executive Pascal Brochier reveals his expectations for the frantic end-of-year period and talks about re-structuring, product and the importance of the UK market in our exclusive interview. He also reveals the firm’s intentions to be increasingly creative and aggressive” in European markets. To read the full interview, just …

Next-gen.biz reports that the success of the Japanese publisher’s Wii titles has boosted Capcom’s stock significantly, after Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition shipped 750,000 units globally. Capcom’s shares have already risen 33 per cent this year. The publisher also has Camelot-developed We Love Golf in the pipeline, which is expected …

What is the thinking behind the recent re-jig of your managerial structure? We have re-organised Europe under a single leadership. The UK is a critical market for us so it is important that we continue to invest, especially on the console side of things. We want to continue to invest …

There have been a lot of consumers waiting for this to happen because we’ve taken so long to do it, and now they will buy into the world of Xbox 360. The Core, which we have dropped to just 179.99, still does very well for us in the UK. It’s …

Nintendo’s Wii Zapper – the gun-shaped holster for the console’s motion-sensing Remote and Nunchuck – will be sold with a new Zelda title when it is released in Novermber. The platform holder has revealed that the Zapper will be released on November 19th in the US, where it will retail …

Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick told investors in a conference call last night that further job cuts will be made as the company continues to restructure. The troubled publisher has already cut staff in Europe and sold of its peripherals business Joytech. The publisher’s chairman also stated that big franchises like …