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5 Activision's Billion Dollar Man

Activision's Billion Dollar Man

Eric Hirshberg steered Activision to more than a billion dollars in profits last year. How is he going to follow that in 2012?


Retail

35 Where does the GAME customer go if the High Street closes?

Where does the GAME customer go if the High Street closes?

Buying habits of GAME consumer revealed in latest data

Publishers / Online

9 Activision admits to bungled Call of Duty Elite launch

Activision admits to bungled Call of Duty Elite launch

DICE 2012: "It's far from time for us to be doing any victory laps," despite high adoption of service, says CEO

Retail

4 Amalur beats Darkness II to number one

Amalur beats Darkness II to number one

Fantasy RPG heads straight to the top of UK software chart

Hardware

Foxconn inspected at Apple's request

Foxconn inspected at Apple's request

Notorious Chinese manufacturing centre to receive Fair Labor Association audit

Online

6 Newell confirms Steam user details taken

Newell confirms Steam user details taken

Statement reveals encrypted data taken in November hacking

Games

Downloadable titles get dedicated site

Downloadable titles get dedicated site

Hookshot Inc launched by team of veteran games journalists

In Other News

Hardware

2

Mobiclip acquired by Nintendo

Video codec company reveals October deal

Hardware

8

$50 million Vita platform launch is Sony's biggest yet

Aiming new handheld at 20-something male gamers who own a PS3

Developers

1

Eyebrow Interactive wins Indie Games Challenge Grand Prize

Indie hit Closure takes home big prize at awards ceremony

Online / development

Spacetime Studios registers 100 million play sessions

Pocket Legends and Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles show high user engagement

Online

GigaMedia details business changes

FunTown creator follows new hires with office mergers

People / Developers

12

Obituary: Bethesda concept artist Adam Adamowicz

The man who defined the look of Fallout 3 succumbs to cancer

Mobile

GREE to open new San Francisco studio

Mobile gaming company plans 41,000 square foot office in China Basin

Developers

15

Jaffe, Avellone ponder crowd-sourced funding

Developers react to success of Double Fine Kickstarter campaign

People

Spark Capital signs up Zynga GM

Nabeel Hyatt to be firm's first venture partner

Games

10

NPD study shows territory skews to different gaming habits

UK has highest console usage, highest digital and physical sales in Europe

News

1

Warhorse licenses CryEngine 3 for debut project

2K Czech and Bohmenia Interactive vets working on an RPG

Developers

7

Apps Genius signs Jersey Shore deal

Games and apps will star The Situation from the popular MTV reality show

Online

6

Google: Games can ruin online communities

Google+ engineering director warns against rushing games onto social networks

publisher

Namco Bandai founds new company to handle all development

Namco Bandai Studio to deal with both new and existing IP

Article

17 Crowded House

Crowded House

Crowdfunding may seem like a curiosity now - but it's a glimpse at the future of creative industries

Article

2 Indie Development: Not Just Fun And Games

Indie Development: Not Just Fun And Games

Bit of Alright showed joie-de-vivre and creative flare in the UK indie scene - but it could do with some hard graft, too

Interview

4 Cliff Harris: Middle-Aged Game Development

Cliff Harris: Middle-Aged Game Development

Positech's founder on the difference between independence and indolence

Digital Foundry

18

Tech Focus: Next-Gen Cloud vs. Console

Interview

3

Jesse Schell: Top Of The Class

Article

5

Saving Education Through Games Addiction

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Calendar

15 -19 Feb 12

GEEK 2012 Margate, Kent

16 Feb 12

Hironobu Sakaguchi at BAFTA he British Academy of Film and Television Arts, London


22 Feb 12

Test Fest 2012 Metropole Hotel, Brighton

5 -9 Mar 12

GDC 2012 San Francisco, US


5 -7 Mar 12

Game Connection America San Francisco

10 Mar 12

Gamer Camp Open Day NTI Birmingham


15 Mar 12

SuperMassive Games presents Games Night Mandolay Hotel, Guildford

16 Mar 12

British Academy Video Games Awards London Hilton, Park Lane


17 -18 Mar 12

Platform 2012 University of Hull

28 Mar 12

Free 2 Play Summit London


4 Apr 12

LAUNCH: Meet the Games Press & App Tech Media Birmingham Science Park Aston, Birmingham

11 -15 Apr 12

Gadget Show Live 2012 Birmingham NEC


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