News Games more popular than music At least in the US, where spending on interactive entertainment outstrips music spending. April 11, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Namco announces US schedule Rebelstar out in August, along with two new Hugo games! Whoopee! April 11, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Phantasy Star Universe for Europe It'll be in European and US stores next February, says good old Sega. April 11, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Quantic Dream confirms Omikron 2 New franchise Infraworld also in development for PC and next-gen consoles. April 8, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Crash Tag Team Racing announced The bandicoot's back with a new racer that features "all-new 'clashing' technology." April 8, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News VIS goes into administration Dundee studio shut down; administrators appointed to seek ways to continue work on existing titles in development. April 7, 2005 GamesIndustry.biz
News Mizuguchi starts blog Japanese developer takes time out of his busy schedule designing wacky music-based games to tell us things. April 7, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Eidos board unanimously recommends SCi's offer Which is fitting, really, since we're unanimously bored of the whole affair. April 7, 2005 GamesIndustry.biz
News Connery signs up for Bond game Don't worry, we do mean Sean and not Jason. April 7, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News 40 per cent of Codemasters sold Almost half of Codies handed over to VC firm in new funding deal. April 6, 2005 GamesIndustry.biz
Feature UK Charts: FIFA Street holds off Splinter Cell Kicking the balls for Ubisoft's hopes. April 6, 2005 Rob Fahey
News Aeon Flux PS2, Xbox There's going to be a game of the movie of the televison series, don't you know. Starring Charlize Theron. April 5, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Chaos Theory's in-game ads Latest Splinter Cell adventure encourages you to buy AMD and Nokia. Stealthily. April 5, 2005 GamesIndustry.biz
News Burnout back for Revenge EA invites you to "live out your wildest commuter fantasies". Tom's not sure they want to know what he thinks about on the tube. (Zoo Keeper, mostly.) April 4, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Tomb Raider VII named And Toby Gard wants to take it back to the tomb, apparently. Because putting Lara in Paris is "like putting Batman in California". April 1, 2005 Tom Bramwell
News Game Zone Live cancelled The event formerly known as Game Stars is off following massive disinterest from everyone who matters. April 1, 2005 Ellie Gibson
News Midway tips its Happy Feet Warner Bros.' forthcoming family film about penguins due out in game form. March 31, 2005 Tom Bramwell
News Republic Commands Ash's attention Irish rock act Ash will release a Star Wars: Republic Commando tainted EP online next month to celebrate their involvement in the game. See a video inside. March 31, 2005 Tom Bramwell
News More backing for SCi's Eidos bid Merrill Lynch adds its shares to SCi's pile as Elevation's bid founders. March 31, 2005 GamesIndustry.biz
News Pre-order Halo 2 MP Map Pack Simply Games offers Bungie's latest at a bargain price. March 30, 2005 Patrick Garratt
News Backbone and Collective merge To form... Collarbone? No. US developers join together to form biggest indie in the whole of America. March 30, 2005 Ellie Gibson