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Guitar Hero CEO: Rhythm Gaming Market Not Saturated
CNBC gives a big free ad to Activision for about a minute, then Daniel Rosensweig, the Guitar Hero CEO, gets down to bidness. He doesn’t think rhythm gaming’s a saturated market. Less than 20 percent of console-owning households have one. “There’s the next 80 percent we have the opportunity go after,” Rosensweig says. “So there…
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iPhone Game Predicts Where You’ll Be In 10 Years
Forget your high school guidance counselor — let your iPhone tell you all about your glorious future as a systems analyst. Japanese game developer Acute Entertainment aims to inform iPhone owners of their future with the new game, Forecast of Yourself After 10 years. For a mere $1.99 USD on the App Store, you can…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
Dark Void Community Site Encourages Cult Mentality
Capcom’s new Dark Void community site works like a cult — they want you to recruit new “resistance members” for the cause… and for free stuff, too. Members of the Dark Void site get access to the usually goodies — developer diaries, screenshots, production blogs — but it seems like they’re really pushing the “missions”…
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Frankenreview: Halo 3: O.D.S.T.
Halo Wars showed us that a Halo game in a different genre can do moderately well without Master Chief, but a first-person shooter? Can O.D.S.T. pull that off? Master Chief is such an iconic gaming figure that it almost seems wrong to have an FPS with the Halo name on it without him. It’s like…
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Holy 2.5 Million Units Shipped, Batman!
2 million units sold is impressive, sure, but now that the PC version is out and about, Eidos celebrates passing along 2.5 million units to retail shelves since the launch of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Eidos celebrates the “must-have game of Summer 2009” today, announcing some rather large shipping numbers for the first Batman game in…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft is Back Online in China
After a two month hiatus, World of Warcraft has resumed full operations in China, where a switchover in local operators had been held up by government regulators and content changes. Gamasutra this morning reported Warcraft’s return to China, noting that Activision’s switch from local operator The9 to NetEase on June 7 will have its costs.…
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Aion’s Early Start So Far
This is what Aion looked like for those of us who managed to log in at around 12:02PM Pacific time yesterday, two minutes past the servers going live. If you look closely, you can see my chanter-to-be Caliban, lost amidst a sea of people acting how they normally do when gathered in large groups via…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: You, Me, And The Cubes
There’s tennis, a last ninja, a little strategy, and a shot of MySims in this week’s Nintendo Download, but once you get past those it’s just Me, You, and the Cubes. You, Me, and The Cubes is a puzzle game for WiiWare from Kenji Eno of D and Enemy Zero fame. Shake your Wii remote…
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Dungeon Fighter Online Enters Open Beta
What happens when you take a 2D side-scrolling beat-em up and transform it into an online game? Dungeon Fighter Online happens, and its open beta happens to kick off tomorrow. Nexon America‘s latest addition mixes arcade action with RPG leveling, allowing players to step into the role of a Fighter, Gunner, Priest, Mage, or Slayer…
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Inside The Saboteur’s Belle De Nuit
See if you can tell the difference between the screenshots and video depicting The Saboteur’s Belle De Nuit night club, and try not to get fired, as a couple of the screens are slightly NSFW. Yes, we’ve posted a couple of these screens before, with the E3 trailer that first took us outside the Belle…
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Chaos Rises In Dawn Of War II
The Chaos Space Marines enter the fray in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, bringing new single-player and multiplayer content to the acclaimed real-time strategy game. Chaos Rises next spring, when THQ releases the next chapter in the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War saga, Chaos Rising. The Chaos Space Marines, a dark…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Blur Release Blurred To 2010
Another game drops from the 2009 holiday season lineup, as Activision pushes the finish line on Bizarre Creations‘ Blur into 2010. It’s all in the name of multiplayer, according to the Activision press release announcing Blur’s move into next year, a move that will give the development team “more time to enhance the game’s innovative…
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