Creative Assembly, the company behind Halo Wars 2 look set to release Halo Gravemind later this year according to leaked promotional materials. Gravemind was one of the franchise's past villains.

Energy companies jumped with the price of oil on Wednesday, but overall stocks finished only slightly higher as a quiet week of trading continued.

There's a Mirror's Edge TV series in the works, which will - as you'd expect - follow the adventures of Faith.

HOW does George Lucas get through the forest? Ewoks. That’s a bad joke and we apologise. But at least it’s intended as a joke, unlike recent Star Wars games.

BAFTA today announced its list of nominees for a range of game awards and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture leads the way with ten nominations.

Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of the game firm behind the mega-selling FIFA 15 last year slumped by 72% to €67,290.

An optimistic statement from the US Federal Reserve sent the dollar up and gold prices down as traders prepared for rising interest rates.

Profits at the Irish arm of games giant Electronic Arts remained flat last year, in spite of revenues increasing by almost 50% to €22m.

The rally that has driven stocks to record highs paused this week as investors tried to figure out where things are headed next.

The global video gaming market is now worth an estimated €53.9bn a year and is set to grow 11.1% a year until 2017, boosted by a new generation of consoles and the increasing popularity of online games.

Activision Blizzard and a group led by chief executive Bobby Kotick have agreed to buy out most of Vivendi’s stake in the biggest US video-game publisher for $8.17bn (€6.15bn), ending five years of control by the French media and telecommunications company.

Irish-based software localisation company Keywords Studios launched the largest technology flotation on the London alternative investment market yesterday.

AN IRISH-born entrepreneur topped the charts last month with iPhone app ‘Joe Danger’.

The number of employees within the contact centre sector has grown by approximately 14% over the last year, according to new research.

Pop Cap Games is expected to close it's entire Dublin office - with the loss of up to 100 jobs.

The bass and drums are as loud as ever, but the mood music has changed at Gamescom, Europe’s biggest gaming fair, as developers whose bedrock business has targeted console gamers play catch-up with the mass mobile market.

More than 3,000 jobs are expected to be saved by a deal to rescue part of struggling retailer Game Group by a turn-around investment firm in a boost for the high street.

It has just been announced that 231 Irish jobs are to be axed at retailer Game.

Lenders of stricken Game Group are working on plans to buy the slimmed-down retailer out of administration, it was reported today.

Retailer Game admitted it is in danger of collapse today after several suppliers refused to provide it with new products.

Embattled computer games retailer Game has put itself up for sale in a last-ditch bid to stave off financial collapse.

The retailer Game has revealed it will not be selling a major new release.

IT’S rare that the opening of a corporate office can be regarded as really good news.

IN this valley of tears we inhabit, it is more than very hard to be positive. There is so much around us that is wrong and that is negative.

A major new gaming facility is officially opening in Galway today with the launch of one of the most expensive online games ever made.

ONLINE game company Zynga filed for an initial public offering (IPO) yesterday, hoping to raise up to $1 billion (€688m).

MANCHESTER UNITED and David Beckham continue to lead the Forbes lists of the most valuable teams and highest-paid players.

Manchester United and David Beckham continue to lead the Forbes lists of the most valuable teams and highest-paid players.

Procter & Gamble has said it will not renew its endorsements deal with golfer Tiger Woods next year, adding another name to the list of companies that cut ties with the golfer after last year’s revelations of marital infidelities.

AFTER one of the biggest sponsorship fallouts in the history of sport, Tiger Woods is close to signing a new global endorsement.

BRITISH Defence Secretary Liam Fox has urged shops to ban a computer game where players can act as the Taliban and kill British troops.

Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has urged shops to ban a computer game where players can act as the Taliban and kill British troops.

US computer games giant EA Games is to open a new customer service and operations centre in Galway with the creation of 200 jobs.

Two hundred new jobs are on the way to Galway with a major investment by a gaming software company.

TIGER WOODS may have lost up to €26million in sponsorship deals after his extra-marital affairs came to light but any financial pain may be short lived as the world number one returns to prominence on the golf course.

Sony today unveiled its highly anticipated “motion control” system as it takes aim at Nintendo’s dominance in the gaming sector.

A FORMER principal scientist at Apple and the founder of WebTV says his new company is set to radically transform the $46 billion (€34bn) worldwide video game market.

Steven Spielberg has created a new videogame puzzle series in the hope of bringing families together around their Wii consoles.

US video games publisher Electronic Arts has launched a $2bn (€1.3bn) takeover bid for rival Take-Two Interactive Software, owner of the Grand Theft Auto game.

Troubled computer games publisher Sci Entertainment today said it was in talks over a possible sale of the business.

NOT MANY young golfers get to take on Tiger Woods, let alone beat them, on the world’s top courses, but gaming enthusiast Stephen Brown from Birr will soon be doing just that — albeit electronically.

Electronic Arts and the FAI today announced that the eircom League of Ireland will feature for the first time in internationally acclaimed football videogame FIFA 08.