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EA, Take-Two Sign Confidentiality Agreement |
 Electronic Arts and Take-Two signed a confidentiality agreement today, prohibiting the two parties from disclosing the status of any discussions or agreements between them. According to an SEC filing, the two parties are bound by the agreement unless the talks terminate. Electronic Arts recently allowed its $2 billion dollar tender offer to acquire Take-Two to expire. At the same time, Riccitiello and Zelnick exchanged letters, through which EA agreed to review Take-Two's management presentation and ...
  
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Survey: What 'Missing Gamers' Want From Games |
 A new Gamasutra feature has been surveying so-called 'missing gamers', revealing some key facts on what 25-35 year old former gamers want in order to return to the pastime. In writer Andy Robertson's introduction, he reveals some of the underpinnings and background for the study: "Having visited ourselves upon groups of Family Gamers and Silver Gamers, we now turn the labs over to Missing Gamers in an attempt to discover what is keeping them from ...
  
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Analysts Predict Misses Of 2008 Holiday Season |
 As part of a new Gamasutra feature on holiday season game sales, analysts from Wedbush Morgan, Screen Digest and EEDAR have been picking potential sales disappointments for this holiday, from Tomb Raider Underworld to Animal Crossing: City Folk. The game industry analysts, which include Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan, Ed Barton of Screen Digest and Jesse Divnich of EEDAR, were asked: "Which titles coming out for the holiday season do you predict will be hits? ...
  
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Skream To Distribute Ignition Titles In UK |
 Video game distributor Skream signed an exclusive deal with publisher Ignition Entertainment to distribute the company's titles in the UK. Skream restructured its business in early 2008 to move away from open distribution products and concentrate on exclusive distribution agreements. This deal with Ignition Entertainment marks the distributor's first partnership under this structure. With the agreement, Skream will distribute Ignition Entertainment's SNK Playmore-developed releases Metal Slug 7 (DS), World Heroes Anthology (PS2), Fatal Fury Battle ...
  
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GCG's Game Design Challenge: Achievement and Insomnia |
 GameCareerGuide has recently posted its next Game Design Challenge: design a card game that incorporates the theme 'insomnia.' Will students and aspiring game designers figure out how to suggest 'insomnia' representatively through an abstract system? The site has also posted the top three submissions to a recently closed design challenge in which readers invented a new Xbox Achievement for an existing game. The contests are judged by game designer Manveer Heir (Raven Software) and staff ...
  
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Xibalba Studios Announces Debut, Licenses Vision Engine |
 Mexican independent developer Xibalba Studios has announced its formation, revealing new PC casual title Icebreakers and the licensing of Trinigy's Vision Engine for the title, with hopes to bring the game to next-gen consoles in the future. The company, which is based in Monterrey, Mexico, and was actually founded back in 2004, publicly unveiled its debut video game, Icebreakers, at the Electronic Game Show in Mexico City. The title, which "immerses players in a new ...
  
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EA Bid Cost Take-Two $11 Million |
 Take-Two's 2008 annual report reveals that company incurred $11.1 million in costs related to Electronic Arts' hostile takeover bid earlier this year. The company didn't specify the particulars of the expense allocation, but also noted that part of the expense was related to its strategic review process. EA aimed to acquire Take-Two for the price of $25.74 per share, or $2 billion, a value Take-Two would continue to maintain was inadequate. At the time, Board ...
  
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Blizzard Launches Digital Download Store With Warcraft, StarCraft |
 Irvine based developer Blizzard Entertainment has launched a digital download store to offer three of its PC real-time strategy titles -- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III Expansion Set: The Frozen Throne, and StarCraft Anthology. Thus far the store is limited to the three titles, but Blizzard is allowing users to register CD keys for previous Blizzard releases, including Diablo II, though downloads of that game have yet to be added to the store. ...
  
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New Publisher GreenScreen Acquires DSI and ZOO, Announces Game |
 New video game publisher GreenScreen Interactive Software announced its own existence today, alongside news that the New York City-based outfit has acquired formerly independent publishers Destination Software, Inc. and ZOO Digital Publishing. Sheffield, UK-based ZOO, publisher of the Premier Manager series, and Sicklerville, New Jersey-based DSI will join forces to form casual subsidiary Zoo Games, which GreenScreen plans to use to target "the emerging mass-market sector." Both companies have significant experience publishing casual and mass-market ...
  
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Microsoft Revenues, Xbox 360 Shipments Edge Up |
 Microsoft announced revenues up 9 percent to $15.06 billion for the latest quarter, with the Xbox 360-producing Entertainment & Devices Devision seeing slightly decreased revenue year on year, thanks to poor comparisons with Halo 3's release last September. Overall, the company's profits edged up to $4.3 billion for the quarter, but EDD, which also includes Zune, Games for Windows, and Mac application software, decreased 6 percent to $1.81 billion. Its profits edged up 7 percent ...
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