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Nintendo’s Denise Kaigler Has Left The Building

1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Nintendo’s vice president of corporate affairs, Denise Kaigler, has announced that she’ll be leaving the company after less than two years in the position. More »
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Gameloft Cuts Android Efforts, Says It’s Not Alone

12:20PM Owen Good | The French mobile games developer Gameloft has scaled back its development on Google’s Android platform, complaining that the Android application store is “not as neatly done” and offers little enticement to buy games offered there. More »
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How Much Did It Cost To Make Modern Warfare 2?

3:40PM Luke Plunkett | Modern Warfare 2 has made about a bazillion dollars so far around the world, but that’s not all profit. You’ve got to subtract the game’s development costs. And for such a polished game, those must be pretty high… More »
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The Decline Of The Video Game Business, In Picture Form

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | For some reason, bad news is often made worse when delivered via picture. There’s something about a steep decline on a chart that’s worse than any collection of words a writer can manage. More »
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Activision Exec: ‘Expect’ Additional, Paid Online Modes

11:30AM Owen Good | Whoops. Kinda sorta missed this, another pearl of wisdom from this week’s BMO Capital Markets forum. Activision’s CFO told conferees that extracting more dough out of players, via charging for certain online play or features, is something we should expect. More »
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So, How Much Did Bobby Kotick Make From Modern Warfare 2?

5:00PM Luke Plunkett | We know Activision made a ton of money from the launch of Modern Warfare 2, but just how much did the company’s much-loved boss, Robert Kotick, manage to score for himself? Here’s a hint: loads. More »
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EA Will Hire Back Some Positions It Cut

1:00PM Owen Good | Also at today’s Digital Entertainment Conference in New York, Electronic Arts’ chief financial officer, Eric Brown, said the company will be hiring back some of those positions it axed earlier this week. But it sounds like just the cheaper ones. More »
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Modern Warfare 2 Sells Nearly Five Million Copies In A Day

11:30PM Luke Plunkett | According to “internal Activision estimates”, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 didn’t just have a good launch, it had “the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment”. More »
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Father Of PlayStation Makes New Company

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Another new company. Back in January 2007, PlayStation father Ken Kutaragi spearheaded Bandai Namco/Sony start-up Cellius. Today, it was announced he’s heading up another company. More »
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Rumour: EA’s Cuts Include C&C Team, Pandemic, Maxis & More

7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Electronic Arts announced yesterday it would be eliminating 1500 jobs, cutting a dozen in-development games and closing “several facilities”. According to multiple sources, those cutbacks include studios like Pandemic, Maxis and nearly the entire Command & Conquer team. More »