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Rumour: Gamecock Founder Looking to Jump From Developer to Mag Publisher
8:00AM Brian Crecente | Gamecock founder Mike Wilson has been in talks with the owner of eBay-listed gaming magazine Hardcore Gamer about a potential purchase, Wilson confirmed to Kotaku today. More »
More Books On The DS Following Harper Collins/Nintendo Deal
8:40AM Stuart Houghton | The Times (the proper London one, not that New York pretender) is reporting that Nintendo has signed a deal with publishers Harper Collins related to its new ebook collection for the DS – 100 Classic Book Collection. More »
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Square Enix Brings LostWinds To Japan
4:00AM Mike Fahey | Square Enix’s newfound love of Western developers bears new fruit as European developer Frontier Developments announces that the Japanese publisher will be publishing their critically-acclaimed WiiWare title LostWinds in Japan and Asia. “Square Enix is a very successful, development-led organisation with a total commitment to quality,” said David Braben, Frontier’s Chairman and founder. “Frontier shares those same core ideals and we are very pleased to be doing business together. Square Enix’s strength in Japan will give LostWinds the chance to shine there, as it has done elsewhere.” More »
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2:30PM Kym Weathersten | We antipodean Nintendoites are about to feel the love.
Nearing a decade since the last official Ninty mag graced our shores, Nintendo Australia have announced the launch of the Official Nintendo Magazine in Oz. The mag will be published by UK-based Future Publishing, the same guys behind the uber-popular UK and US versions.
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Official Nintendo Mag To Hit Oz
2:30PM Kym Weathersten | We antipodean Nintendoites are about to feel the love.
Nearing a decade since the last official Ninty mag graced our shores, Nintendo Australia have announced the launch of the Official Nintendo Magazine in Oz. The mag will be published by UK-based Future Publishing, the same guys behind the uber-popular UK and US versions.
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Avalanche’s Lost Contracts Claim 77 Jobs
3:20AM Mike Fahey | Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios is having to trim their staff by 77 people in the face of two lost publishing contracts over the past year, worth an estimated $US34 million. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Avalanche CEO Christofer Sundberg explains how the layoffs came about. “We lost the first deal in February but we could survive that one because we had a shortage of staff in other projects and we decided to put together a team to work on an original IP that we had in development. But the team that were working on a project that was terminated last week – there were about 67 people on that team.” More »
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EA To Publish New IP Title From Epic
8:20AM Kotaku US Edition | Electronic Arts has signed a deal with Epic Games to publish an as-yet untitled action game. The game will be released for PC, PS3 & Xbox 360 and be developed by Epic’s People Can Fly studio, based in Poland. For those of you wondering, People Can Fly were the folks behind Painkiller. “Epic is excited to work with EA Partners to launch our next big IP on the global stage,” said Mark Rein, vice president, Epic Games. “EA Partners gives independent developers like Epic the muscle of a global publisher like EA, along with the focus and flexibility of a smaller team committed to working with our individual needs.” Full details after the jump More »
