The sad news, at least on this side of the Atlantic, is that no release date for the US has been announced ?officially.?Ĭome on! We PC users over here need to take out our frustrations, too! A few well-placed body blows can really help take the edge off a bad day at work. This arcade-style boxing game includes fictional contenders and allows players to develop fighters, train them, build a career and even buy luxury goods or gamble in a casino with your winnings. Overload Entertainment is releasing Heavyweight Thunder in March. There?s a lot more data of interest to anyone who enjoys running down a host of statistics, so here again is the link to the official press release. The top-selling genre for PC gamers was strategy, while console junkies were action gamers.
Video game console software sales reached $5.2 billion (160.7 million units), computer games sales were $1.1 billion (45 million units), and a record $1.0 billion (42.3 million units) in portable software sales.Ī record twelve video games sold more than one million units, and of these, nine were rated E or T.
Halo 2, one of the best-selling titles of 2004, took in more revenue in its first day of sales than any movie has ever taken in its opening day. You can check out the details yourself, but here are a few points of interest if you don?t have time to read the whole thing: That translates into 8 games per second, according to the official press release. The Entertainment Software Association announced this week that game sales surpassed US$7 billion in 2004. Oh, and don?t forget that a good cornbread is the anchor to any successful Super Bowl meal! See ya next week! Hut, hut, hike! Beelyuns and beelyuns So plug in your favorite football game, grab a joy pad, pick a team and have a blast. Don?t get me wrong, I love the Eagles (I used to live in Philadelphia) but I?m a Bostonian at heart. I?ll be all alone with a hearty meal, Madden 2005 on my PC and I?ll be rooting for the Patriots. Gerrard could not be reached for comment.One more week until Super Bowl Sunday and I can?t wait! I?m cooking up pulled barbecue pork and cornbread just for myself. Separately, Clyde & Co also dropped Gerrard as a client in proceedings brought forward by ENRC.Ī spokesperson for Dechert LLP said: “The allegations against the Firm are denied and we are defending the claim.” This week, lawyers from Enyo Law also dropped Gerrard as a client in the hacked email case, as boutique law firm Charles Fussell & Co instead took the London firm’s place. The proposal comes as former Metropolitan police officer Gerrard faces a raft of legal troubles over claims he hacked emails, leaked documents, and took part in efforts to kidnap and torture a Jordanian lawyer.
The Emirati fund said the $1m settlement offer “significantly exceeds the maximum amount that Mr Azima could ever recover in his counterclaim,” as it said the Iranian-American tycoon has not yet responded to its proposal. The UAE sovereign fund claimed that in light of the ENRC ruling it has also come to believe its officers “may have been the victims of dishonest and unscrupulous former third-party advisers who have taken steps to advance their own interests for their own gains, and at Rakia’s expense”. The fund said it had decided to pull out of the case due to believing that the businessman’s counterclaim is “being funded by third parties who are not concerned about hacking of Mr Azima’s emails but are supporting this litigation as part of a wider campaign against Neil Gerrard and Dechert”.
The letter comes after Azima sued Rakia, Gerrard, and City law firm Dechert over use of hacked emails in a multi-million-pound fraud trial brought forward by the UAE fund – after the Emirati fund lost millions through investments in Azima’s ventures to start a pilot school and hotel. In a letter seen by City A.M., the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) said it is dropping its lawsuit against Iranian-American airline magnate Farhad Azima, as it offered to pay the businessman $1m to settle his counterclaim over use of hacked emails in a fraud trial involving both Dechert and its ex-senior partner Neil Gerrard. The fund’s efforts to distance itself from Dechert’s former head of white-collar crime comes after a High Court last month said Gerrard had leaked confidential information about Kazakhstani mining company ENRC to the press, in a bid to bring in more work and maximise his fees. Montreux Jazz Festival: Is it really even a jazz festival? Whatever – it’s brilliantĮmbattled City lawyer Neil Gerrard suffered another blow this week, after his former client, an Emirati sovereign fund, turned on the ex-Dechert partner, after offering to pay $1m to settle its case with a powerful Iranian-American business tycoon.