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It’s been a good year for Ubisoft, who enjoyed good sales numbers for the first quarter of 2008. Jacked up with previous multiplatform releases such as Assassin’s Creed (Xbox 360, PS3, PC), Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC), and Rayman Raving Rabbids, Ubisoft managed to garner a healthy 26 growth to 169 million Euros (around US 265 million).

Ubisoft’s Games for Everyone brand has also played a major role in its success. The brand includes titles such as Petz, Envision, and the My Coach series of games. My Weight Loss Coach, for one, got off to a promising start according to its latest press wire.

For the second quarter of fiscal year 2008-2009, gamers can expect the following releases:

• Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (Computer, PS3 and Xbox 360)
• Soul Calibur 4 (European release, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
• More casual games for the Nintendo platforms Wii and DS

How about Splinter Cell: Conviction (Windows, Xbox 360), you ask? It’s confirmed to be pushed back to a fiscal 2009-2010 release, quite a few paces behind the previously announced fourth quarter of 2008-2009. Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot explained the reason for the setback:

Splinter Cell is a very important franchise for Ubisoft and we have high anticipation for this game. It is a major product and we want it to be able to catch all the gameplay opportunities it is offering to us this day. There are several opportunities that we want to take and so that is why we can give [them] a little bit more time to make sure it can become a huge product

As long as it means that the game will turn out to be good, then it’s superior to just grin and bear with the delay. More updates to come.

• Ubisoft: We still support the PSP and have a number of games planned for this year
• Ubisoft raises guidance for fiscal year 2007-2008

source pc.qj.net

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GamePolitics brings word of even more potential game legislation this day. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced a bill to the US Senate yesterday that would, to quote the bill,

…prohibit the distribution or sale of video games that do not have age-based content rating labels [and] prohibit the sale or rental of video games with adult content ratings to minors…

The text of the legislation isn’t out yet, however, so the details are still somewhat sketchy. That stated, the bill currently has no sponsors and has been referred to the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

If you’ll remember, a couple of days back another important piece of videogame legislation was signed in New York. One of the law’s mandates was that “games sold at retail disclose the ratings obtained from the gaming industry’s voluntary rating system.” Such a law could provide a legal precedent for part of the legislation mentioned above.

• New York Governor David Paterson passes video game legislation
  

source pc.qj.net

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According to a tidbit taken from Chinese broadsheet Economic Daily News, Sony is now planning to enter the ultra low-cost notebook market, reportedly tapping Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn for components that’ll be used for the rumored Sony ULPC. The paper reports:

Japan vendors were originally conservative about the low-cost notebook market, but with low-cost notebooks having successfully made a clear market separation from mainstream notebooks, these vendors have decided to enter the market in the fourth quarter of this year, added the paper.

While major electronics manufacturers (Sony, Fujitsu, etc) have made known their wariness towards the new ultra low-cost personal market, they finally decided to enter the ULPC market after determining that the new consumer taste for smaller, cheaper notebooks won’t threaten their market share.

• Major PC companies threatened by ultra low-cost notebooks

source mobile.qj.net

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