Bandai Increases D3 Stake

MARCH 18, 2009 • Namco Bandai continued to increase its ownership stake in D3Publisher – up to 95% from 70%. Namco Bandai announced in February the intention to acquire 100% of D3Publisher, plus its European and North American operations, to be run as a wholly owned subsidiary. In addition to its video game publishing business, D3Publ.....

Brisk Warhammer Sales

MARCH 6, 2009 • THQ got some needed good news with brisk sales of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. The PC title raced ahead to the top of computer game charts, with estimates of selling 300,000 units in the U.S. In the U.K., the game did well enough to come in at No. 3 on the overall sales chart behind Street Fighter IV a.....

New MBC Game Network

MARCH 5, 2009 • The MBC Game television network in South Korea launches a separate program dedicated to showing players competing in Microsoft’s Halo Wars. Televising matches of PC Games such as Starcraft, Warcraft III and Counter-Strike are common, but doing so for a console title like Halo Wars is rare......

GameFly G-Box Kiosks

MARCH 4, 2009 • GameFly installed its first G-Box rental kiosk in the Student Union building at Texas Tech university in Lubbock. The automated kiosk works on the same model as GameFly’s mail-based business. Hundreds of PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii games are available for students with a credit or deb.....

THQ Closes Zurich Office

FEBRUARY 26, 2009 • THQ closed its International Office in Zürich as part of a cost-reduction restructuring. The closure comes a year after the office had been opened to facilitate the publisher global expansion plans. On March 18, THQ notifi ed employees at its Big Huge Games studio that it may be closed in 30 days if a bu.....

PSN Accounts Grow

FEBRUARY 25, 2009 • Since January, Sony Computer Entertainment reported that 3 million additional PlayStation Network (PSN) accounts had been created on top of the 17 million announced at the Consumer Electronics Show. To date, $180 million has been spent by PSN users on 380 million pieces of digital co.....

Star Ocean 4 Pumps 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2009 • Strong sales of Square Enix’s Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope propelled the Xbox 360 above the Wii and PlayStation in Japan. For the week ending Feb. 22, 25,334 Xbox 360s were sold, compared to 16,973 Wiis and 16,149 PS3, according to Media Create. .....

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