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Following on from the recent appointment of Kevin Bachus as president, Infinium Labs has announced three new executive hires, along with the opening of an office in Seattle, with a Los Angeles office planned shortly.

French publisher LSP has been bought out by one of its partners, Canadian firm Hip Interactive, in a move which will give Hip access to European markets for its range of games and gaming accessories.

Nintendo's latest GBA Pokemon titles, Leaf Green and Fire Red, have topped the charts in Japan with combined sales of over a million units in their first weekend, despite being remakes of the original GameBoy Pokemon games.

Reports today are suggesting that Nintendo is planning to launch key titles including Metroid Prime 2, Geist and Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green in Europe by the end of 2004, with new Zelda and Mario titles also in the works.

Nokia has announced that the N-Gage game deck is to go on another promotional tour in Europe, this time covering 27 major winter sports locations in seven different countries with a tour featuring major prizes for competition winners.

Publisher Sega has confirmed that it has development hardware for Nintendo's Dual Screen portable console at its offices, but says that it is still only evaluating the system and is not committed to creating games for it as yet.

Publisher THQ has reported figures for the quarter ended December 31st, revealing a huge rise in net income and strong sales during the quarter, and announcing that it is set to publish another Disney/Pixar movie tie-in title.

Leading publisher Electronic Arts has signed a new deal with comic book empire Marvel which will see the company developing a series of fighting games featuring Marvel superheroes and a range of new characters.

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Trauma Studios, the creator of the popular Desert Combat free modification for Battlefield 1942, has been signed into a commercial deal with BF'42 creators Digital Illusions CE (DICE) to collaborate on future games in the series.

Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal has announced its revenue figures for the fourth quarter and full year of 2003, revealing that the company's videogames division suffered a 28 per cent drop in revenues during the year.

Microsoft has announced plans to launch the Xbox Live gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore this April, continuing the Asian roll-out of the service following last October's launch in South Korea.

Austrian publisher JoWooD claims to have completed the turnaround of its business, with the company posting a full-year profit of €3.6 million and achieving a 30 per cent increase in revenue in its core business areas during 2003.

Japanese publisher Sega has announced that its net profit for the nine months to December 31st rose by some 92 per cent, although the December quarter saw declining revenues and profits.

French publisher Ubisoft has announced its consolidated sales figures for the quarter ended December 31st, revealing a 20 per cent rise over the previous year and leaving the company on track to meet its full year targets.

Major US retailer GameStop has announced that it is to stop selling Nokia's N-Gage game deck 450 of its stores, representing almost a third of its retail outlets, with remaining inventory being moved to other stores.

The offices of German developer Crytek, currently finishing work on PC first person shooter Far Cry for Ubisoft, were allegedly raided by police this morning following a tip-off from a former employee regarding pirated software.