The strength of its Wii titles was key to Ubisoft’s 14 percent sales increase in its fiscal 2008, the publisher announced today, although sales declined 5.1 percent in the fourth quarter.
Thanks to what the company calls "a continued strong showing" for Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party and Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip, Ubisoft’s fourth [...]

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From Joystiq:
Ubisoft announced today that it’s working on a new Ghost Recon, currently titled Ghost Recon 4. Some of our more observant readers likely remember this game coming up in a previous Ubisoft financial report. Sadly, it’s still a ways off, with Ubisoft crossing its fingers for a release sometime before April 2010. Sadly, [...]

From GameTrailers:
St-Pierre describes living a childhood dream through the UFC 2009 Undisputed video game.

From PRNewswire:
Gameloft achieved consolidated sales of EUR30.8 million for the first quarter of 2009, up by 22% from the previous year. On a comparable exchange rate basis, growth over the same period reached 18%.
Mobile games accounted for 94% of the company’s annual sales and console games covered the remaining 6%.
Europe accounted for [...]

From VentureBeat:
Airborne Technology Ventures has raised $500,000 in funding from mobile entrepreneur Skuli Mogensen for the company’s mobile media business.
The company, which is the parent of Airborne Mobile, takes content from major media brands, such as Fox’s Family Guy and the Food Network, and makes it available on mobile platforms. The funding is [...]

From Vancouver Sun:
A new report from the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) shows Vancouver still the leading hub of the industry in terms of employee numbers.
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And because tax incentives in British Columbia pale when compared to those in Quebec, B.C. may slip into the No. 2 spot some time this year.
The [...]

From Gamasutra:
A2M’s acrobatic action shooter Wet has found a publisher. One of the last titles left in limbo by the Activision-Vivendi merger, it’s now been officially picked up by Fallout 3 and Oblivion publisher Bethesda Softworks.
Wet will ship in Fall on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. At Bethesda’s press event in London last [...]