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Ubisoft reports €495m Q3 sales
U Play racks up 1 million registered users via Assassin's Creed II, service to be rolled out across other titles
9th February 2010 @ 05:31PM Publishers Financial-business
80 jobs under threat at GAME Group
UK retailer to consolidate Basingstoke and York divisions
Record 1.5 million sales for RedLynx
Developer confirms up to 10 new releases for 2010
9th February 2010 @ 01:37PM Online Developers
March to be recovery month for games business
Hardcore titles to help drive growth in 2010, say analysts
1 9th February 2010 @ 11:54AM Games Publishers
Dragon Age: Origins ships over 3 million units
Expansion to game coming in March; EA lists fiscal 2011 releases
9th February 2010 @ 11:07AM Publishers Games
Almaz Capital buys stake in casual games firm Alawar
Venture capital firm acquires 23% stake in Russian developer
9th February 2010 @ 10:29AM Business Developers
Former EA exec joins PlayFirst
Mitali Pattnaik joins company as GM of social games
1 9th February 2010 @ 09:35AM People Publishers
Perry to keynote Festival of Games
Gaikai and Shiny Entertainment founder to discuss new cloud gaming platform
9th February 2010 @ 08:59AM Developers Events
8 million register for Free Realms
New content key to encouraging interaction in free-to-play game, says SOE
9th February 2010 @ 08:32AM Online Publishers
Gearbox: Developers can take risks with DLC
President of Borderlands studio talks up opportunity for creators and convenience for gamers
Riccitiello: Hardware price cuts came "too late"
EA boss cites first party delay in action as part of reason for 2009 weakness
8th February 2010 @ 10:51PM Publishers Business
FIFA 10 hits 9.7 million lifetime sales
EA football title just shy of major landmark as of the end of 2009
1 8th February 2010 @ 10:05PM Games Publishers
EA: Console revenue down 30% in Q3
Packaged goods revenues drop 29% while digital is up 6%
1 8th February 2010 @ 09:48PM Publishers Financial-business
EA reports 25% revenue fall for Q3
But publisher slashes losses compared to previous year; headcount reduction "two-thirds" complete
8th February 2010 @ 09:28PM Publishers Financial-business
Unity inks three-year LEGO deal
All web-based content to benefit from Unity tools
8th February 2010 @ 04:03PM Developers Online
MacDonald: Motion control will present challenge for Sony and MS
EyeToy's creator says getting price points, games and technology right is "not trivial"
2 8th February 2010 @ 04:00PM Publishers Hardware Exclusive
Championship Manager Online to close in April
Publisher to "re-focus" football franchise; lack of players/features blamed
8th February 2010 @ 10:58AM Online Publishers
Final Fantasy, Batman boost Square Enix profits 48%
Eidos property performs well alongside role-playing franchises and Advent Children movie
3 8th February 2010 @ 10:28AM Financial-business Publishers
Mass Effect 2 remains UK number one
Games holds off competition from Just Dance; Dante's Inferno charts at 4
8th February 2010 @ 10:13AM Retail
Local politics hits World of Warcraft China again
Latest issue causes new registrations to be suspended over Burning Crusade content
Bungie saddened by Xbox Live switch off
Halo developer proud of online achievements, rallies users for one last fight on April 14
4 8th February 2010 @ 09:18AM Developers Online
Media execs form multimillion dollar 'Appfund' for iPad
Team offers developers up to $500k funding for apps
8th February 2010 @ 09:05AM Developers Mobile
Gran Turismo lifetime sales pass 55 million
PSP game reaches 1.8m according to new Polyphony figures
8th February 2010 @ 08:24AM Retail
Sega Sammy swings to profit, game sales down
Company sells 16.7 million games during nine months to December 31
1 5th February 2010 @ 01:13PM Financial-business Publishers
British Columbia to get new game tax credits
Proposed program to benefit province's media industries
2 5th February 2010 @ 10:54AM Business Developers
Original Xbox Live to close in April
"Difficult" decision to pull service despite significant number of users
10 5th February 2010 @ 10:24AM Online Publishers
GameStop accused of deceptive advertising practices
Retailer is one of 22 to be investigated by NY's Attorney General
League of Legends passes 1 million downloads
Riot Games' online title played by 150,000 daily
5th February 2010 @ 09:46AM Developers Online
Japanese charts: Dragon Quest VI sells over 900k in first week
Square title take number 1 in software chart; PSP leads hardware
5th February 2010 @ 09:21AM Retail
Australian developers awarded $240,000 prototype funding
Four companies receive cash for new digital initiatives
5th February 2010 @ 09:15AM Developers
