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Toy specialist Hasbro has struck a major licensing deal with Electronic Arts – further verifying MCV’s recent exclusive that the kids’ firm is set to muscle in on the video games space. The partnership grants EA exclusive global rights to create games based on Hasbro IP including Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, …
Read More »Call of Duty 4 dated
Famed for its cinematic interpretations of World War II, Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat, which as the title suggests abandons the 1940’s in favour of contemporary battling, will hit UK and European retail on November 9th, Eurogamer reports . The news apparently emerged a press event earlier this …
Read More »CRI readies FileMajik for DS
Compression middleware aims to help cut manufacturing costs
Read More »German PC publisher targets the UK market
The Leicester-based firm is being headed up by Jonathan Hales as managing director. He brings with him seven years experience from Codemasters where he was most recently VP and general manager of Northern Region Europe. Founded last year by German games industry veterans Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, Kalyso Media …
Read More »SCE London Studio execs to deliver Edinburgh keynote
VP Jamie MacDonald joined by SingStar guru Paulina Bozek and Home director Peter Edward
Read More »Microsoft to webcast Gamefest sessions
Chris Satchell keynote and first day XNA sessions to be available for free
Read More »Competitions Commission to investigate GAME
Following GAME’s acquisition of rival UK High Street games retailer Gamestation in May, the Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to refer the buyout to the Competitions Commission. John Fingleton, chief executive of the OFT, stated: This merger involves the loss of competition between two parties who, …
Read More »Codies adds new Surrey studio
Codemasters has opened a new UK development studio. Joining the publisher’s existing operations in Southam and Kuala Lumpur, Codemasters Studios Guildford is headed up by Adrian Bolton who was previously development director for EA Criterion. Bolton will report to Gavin Cheshire, VP of Codemasters Studios. The studio will initially target …
Read More »Salvaged Fopp stores snub games
HMV has ruled out any plans to introduce games to its Fopp stores after purchasing the brand name and six of the chain’s most profitable outlets from administrators. Fopp was forced to close on July 31st after credit problems, which were exacerbated by the acquisition of doomed retail chain Music …
Read More »New NVIDIA server breaks visual records
SIGGRAPH: Four GPU machine designed for offline graphical tasks
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