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Riccitiello: Hardware price cuts came "too late"

EA boss cites first party delay in action as part of reason for 2009 weakness

Publishers / Games

Dragon Age: Origins ships over 3 million units

Expansion to game coming in March; EA lists fiscal 2011 releases

Exclusive dice-2010

Gearbox: Developers can take risks with DLC

President of Borderlands studio talks up opportunity for creators and convenience for gamers

Developers / Events

Perry to keynote Festival of Games

Gaikai and Shiny Entertainment founder to discuss new cloud gaming platform

Online / Publishers

8 million register for Free Realms

New content key to encouraging interaction in free-to-play game, says SOE

People / Publishers

Former EA exec joins PlayFirst

Mitali Pattnaik joins company as GM of social games

Business / Developers

Almaz Capital buys stake in casual games firm Alawar

Venture capital firm acquires 23% stake in Russian developer

Games / Publishers

FIFA 10 hits 9.7 million lifetime sales

EA football title just shy of major landmark as of the end of 2009

Publishers / Financial

EA: Console revenue down 30% in Q3

Packaged goods revenues drop 29% while digital is up 6%

Publishers / Financial

EA reports 25% revenue fall for Q3

But publisher slashes losses compared to previous year; headcount reduction "two-thirds" complete

Developers / Online

Unity inks three-year LEGO deal

All web-based content to benefit from Unity tools

Exclusive Publishers / Hardware

MacDonald: Motion control will present challenge for Sony and MS

EyeToy's creator says getting price points, games and technology right is "not trivial"

Online / Publishers

Championship Manager Online to close in April

Publisher to "re-focus" football franchise; lack of players/features blamed

Financial / Publishers

Final Fantasy, Batman boost Square Enix profits 48%

Eidos property performs well alongside role-playing franchises and Advent Children movie

Retail

Mass Effect 2 remains UK number one

Games holds off competition from Just Dance; Dante's Inferno charts at 4

Politics / Online

Local politics hits World of Warcraft China again

Latest issue causes new registrations to be suspended over Burning Crusade content

Developers / Online

Bungie saddened by Xbox Live switch off

Halo developer proud of online achievements, rallies users for one last fight on April 14

Developers / Mobile

Media execs form multimillion dollar 'Appfund' for iPad

Team offers developers up to $500k funding for apps

Retail

Gran Turismo lifetime sales pass 55 million

PSP game reaches 1.8m according to new Polyphony figures

Financial / Publishers

Sega Sammy swings to profit, game sales down

Company sells 16.7 million games during nine months to December 31

Business / Developers

British Columbia to get new game tax credits

Proposed program to benefit province's media industries

Interview

Gearbox's Randy Pitchford

The Gearbox Software boss talks DICE, Borderlands, DLC and indie development

Editorial

Special Edition

Expensive, exclusive versions of games are increasingly common - but consumers are also growing wary of them

Interview

Gameloft's Alexandre de Rochefort

CFO discusses iPad and why early adoption of new devices has paid off for the company

Interview

Ubisoft's Alain Corre - One

Interview

Projekt Management - One

Interview

Visceral's Nick Earl

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BlindGiRl - Headed for Xbox LIVE Indie Games, though they're not telling us what it's all about, the teases.
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Allods Online - "Fantasy space opera" to begin European open beta next Tuesday.
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Allods Online - (European open beta announcement - German version)
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Allods Online - (European open beta announcement - French version)
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier - High-tech shooter under development in Paris, with Splinter Cell Conviction buyers to get multiplayer beta access.