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In its war against rampant piracy, Ubisoft has chosen an unusual weapon. The French game publisher has installed the sound of ear-splitting vuvuzela horns, which was popularized at the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, to annoy away the pirates.

Have video games finally gone mainstream?

U.S. video games producer Electronic Arts Inc is selling out of Ubisoft Entertainment SA six years after buying a big chunk of the world's third-largest independent video games publisher.

Sales of video game hardware and software plunged 26 percent in April, industry tracker NPD said on Thursday, one of the largest declines over the past decade.

The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short Logorama, are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet.

With a new year ahead, video game publishers are returning to their roots and core gamers to maintain sales at a time when a contraction in the industry is expected to mean fewer overall new releases.

With a new year ahead, video game publishers are returning to their roots and core gamers to maintain sales at a time when a contraction in the industry is expected to mean fewer overall new releases.

Ubisoft, whose revenues declined 51 percent in the first quarter, delayed its awaited game Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2 due to slow demand and in the anticipation of market conditions.

French videogame maker Ubisoft Entertainment SA is set to open a Toronto studio that will create 800 jobs over 10 years, the Ontario government said on Monday.

Videogame enthusiasts can expect new home fitness titles and a wave of updated sequels to big hits in the next year, two of the world's biggest game publishers said at the annual E3 show in Las Vegas.

Ubisoft will team up with Target at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles from June 2–4 offering customers an exclusive preview of their upcoming video game titles.

Microsoft is developing a video camera for the Xbox 360 games console that will allow players to control games through the movement of their bodies according to a report Tuesday from The Wall Street Journal.

Jerry Bruckheimer Games Inc. on Tuesday named a pair of videogame veterans to lead the company nearly 18 months after entering into a publishing agreement with MTV Games.

While Sony battles with Microsoft over which of their next-generation video game consoles will dominate, its seven-year-old PlayStation 2 still has a lot of life in it.

The market for video games is expected to expand by half over the next four years as it extends beyond hardcore gamers, the chief executive of French video game publisher Ubisoft said on Wednesday.

Software publisher Grove Games has formed a new development studio, aiming to create original interactive software titles.