It’s fiscal reporting season in Japan! And that means fiscal reporting. Latest on the clock is Capcom, who are reporting that, across the board, things are looking up. Net sales are up 10.6 % from fiscal year 2008 (USD$923 million). Operating income us up 11.4%. Orindary income us up 12.6%. And net income us up 3.3%.…
Valve have just added a new feature to their online PC gaming platform Steam, whereby users can snoop around some global achievement statistics. Sinice Steam now supports achievements, you can choose from a list of titles (not every title is supported) and see what percentage of people across the world have earned a particular achievement.…
Upon first seeing the DJ Hero peripheral this morning, many people remarked on how simple it looked. Three buttons and a turntable, and that was it. But is that it? Take a look at the two shots released. They’re awful. One only shows a small part of the device, from the top-down, while the other…
Nintendo have today released more information from their 2009 fiscal year reports, this time showcasing the lifetime sales figures for many of the company’s top-selling titles. While we had some of these numbers last night, this is a far more extensive list, giving us lifetime, worldwide sales figures for every game on the Wii and…
Like that fat bloke in The Meaning Of Life, the world is this close to having its fill of Guitar Hero. Know what will finally blow us up? A TV show and/or concert tour. Yes, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Activision are in talks with entertainment and promotion types with an eye towards bringing Guitar…
Did you sign up for the Starcraft II beta? Silly question. Of course you did. Well, if you get in, looks like you won’t have long to wait to get your Zerg on! It was announced during Blactivision’s conference call earlier today that the “external beta” – that’s the one where you guys can play…
Earlier this year, five students from the University of Central Florida had to design a networked, text-based multiplayer game for their programming class. This, amazingly, is what they came up with.
Movie posters can be an art form. See anything ever done by Drew Struzan. But other times, they’re not, and all they’re doing is calling out for video game characters to make them better. Least, that’s what the folks at film mag Empire reckon, as they’ve got a long-running a contest to see how movie…
A Twitter account by the name of djhero has tonight posted these renders, claiming they are the first shots of the upcoming game’s turntable controller. Now, they might be legitimate! The Twitter account is a few months old, and they look nice enough. Then again, there’s nothing else to confirm these are being the real…
Capcom must be onto something with these theatrical adaptations of their franchises, because fresh off the Ace Attorney show-and-dance routine comes news Devil Kings – or Sengoku Basara – is being adapted for the stage. Yes, Devil Kings fans, this is two stories in one night. Be still your beating hearts! The games, which are…
Maxis senior art director Ocean Quigley has shown us the future. A future where Spore creations are not bulbous, simple game characters, but realistic-looking creatures. Using Maxis’ “in-house exporter”, which is able to export all the “skinned, rigged meshes along with all of the textures (normal maps, specular, diffuse, gloss, etc)” of a Spore creature,…
EA Maxis and the creators of Robot Chicken are teasing a new joint venture in this clip, showing that the comedy boys are using Spore to design…something. It was all looking very mysterious, with a mysterious website and a mysterious Spore-branded teaser (Find out what happens…May 19th), until Reuters went and blew the project’s cover.…
Buried in the midst of Nintendo’s 2009 fiscal year results is a small note about the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. It’s interesting to see how the game’s described to investors, rather than fans. While the game is mentioned only in passing, the report hints at the game’s direction, saying that “The Legend of…
As you’ve seen, Nintendo’s 2009 fiscal year results are in. Pushing on from the cash money, let’s now take a look at the games: which ones sold, how many they sold, that sort of thing. WARNING: these numbers will make every “1 million sold!” proclamation from other publishers seem tame by comparison. The following sales…
Despite being a blast, people knocked the first Rolando for looking too much like LocoRoco. Wonder if those same people will knock the sequel for looking too much like LittleBigPlanet?
Bizarre Creations, the development team behind the renowned Project Gotham Racing series, used to make games for Microsoft. Now, they make games for Activision. Why the split? Speaking with Edge, the studio’s creative director Martyn Chudley has told of Bizarre’s final weeks with Microsoft, as development on Project Gotham Racing 4 (which I maintain is…
The latest Street Fighter flick was a mess. From the casting to the plot, top to bottom, a mess. And so it is with the movie’s impending Blu-Ray release! Look at that cover! It should come with a disclaimer: contains 5% actual Kristen Kruek. And also a warning: Chris Klein is not actually Nicolas Cage.…
Funny thing, that Bionic Commando demo. Here’s a game with quite a complex control mechanism, but instead of using the demo to teach you that, they just drop you into a multiplayer match. Which is leading many to install the demo, fire it up, and hate it. How are they meant to kill people when…
The heavens have opened, our prayers have been answered, and a new Red Dead game is on the way. Here’s some new screenshots for the game.
A teenager from the Russian city of Novosibirsk has been killed by a friend after a heated evening of Counter-Strike, Russian court documents reveal. Apparently on May 19 of last year, the victim was playing CS against his “friend” in an internet cafe when things got nasty. Two separate fistfights broke out between the pair,…
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