File this under “insightful”: EA Sports boss and part-time tattoo aficionado Peter Moore has told Eurogamer that his brand is under-performing on Nintendo’s dominant home console. I think we need to continue to work on the Wii. When I look at the attach rate on the Wii of our software to where I think we…
Tucked away within Ubisoft’s financial results announcements from yesterday was news that Tom Clancy‘s H.A.W.X. had moved a million copies worldwide since launch last month. For what amounts to little more than a modern-day Rogue Squadron clone, which was lacking in even the backhanded militaristic charm of other Clancy games, that’s an impressive feat! Guess…
While Shaun White Snowboarding wasn’t the best game of last fall, it is one of the best selling games. The multi-platform game sold 3 million copies. You know what that means? More Shaun White Snowboarding. Just listen to Ubisoft honcho Yves Guillemot, “You can expect more Shaun White in the future.” Don’t get excited, it’s…
Introversion’s Chris Delay has – in a continuation of the company’s earlier decision to “tell all” about their recent operational dealings – posted an account of the company’s recent woes. In a candid piece, which describes 2008 as “a truly terrible year”, Delay opens up about a succession of mistakes the company have made, a…
Forget Night Elves and Orks! Korean developer DevCat Studios has something different in store with its latest massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Husky Express. Dog-sledding. And not just dog-sledding, but puppies. Players raise their dog-sledding team and make deliveries to snowy outputs. Higher level dogs bring different skills like smelling goods to determine their quality…
“G-Man’s Last Breath” is a song by Jonathan Lewis, who it appears is as big a fan of the Half-Life universe as he is overblown rock epics. The resulting track is a tale of intrigue, drama and rock, as Lewis explores the mysteries of fatherhood, “Uncle Breen” and the ultimate nature of the relationship between…
Kotakuite brainFUBAR sends his entry, writing, “I may not be able to compete with a suicide girl, but I still wanted to give it a go.” Bravo! Not only does brainFUBAR have a Virtual Boy, but he also has red hair. Reader Zorantor is also a dude — a dude with a Virtual Boy —…
I’ll be honest, while I liked Dawn of War II, I can’t even remember the game’s score. Never mind. I’ll refresh my memory by downloading the soundtrack for free. If you head to the game’s store page on Steam, you can pick up a copy of the entire soundtrack, which aside from having a lovely…
Just like you can’t kill a real superhero, it seems you can’t kill a City of Heroes character either, as it’s been announced that all the game’s expired accounts are being brought back online. This applies to both retail and trial versions of the game, and has already taken place, so if you’ve ever had…
Is this the year the PS3 takes the top spot? Or is it next year? While the pundits gaze into their crystal balls, soon-to-retire Sony exec David Reeves thinks he’s got the answer. “I don’t think it will be next year, but in three to five years it will become dominant on the market,” Reeves…
We know what you’re thinking — we already got a new Tekken 6 trailer this month. But, hey, here’s another one. This trailer is a little too on heavy collapsing floors, though. Too heavy, collapsing floors, geddit? Tekken 6 was originally released in Japanese arcades in late 2007 and will be hitting the PlayStation 3,…
Activision may be able to throw their fat rolls of cash at bands like Metallica and Aerosmith, but there’s one man who was approached by the company and turned them down: Prince. Yes, the man who is perhaps the greatest living American says in an interview with Tavis Smiley that Activision once approached him over…
SNK’s The King of Fighters fighting franchise is going online with THE KING OF FIGHTERS ONLINE. Developed by Triple A Games, PC title KOF ONLINE features 3D graphics, online RPG elements and fighting. This latest batch of screens shows stages, game play and cut scenes. THE KING OF FIGHTERS ONLINE is slated to go live…
DS title WarioWare: Myself lets users create their own mini-games. That means one thing: Penis. Released in Japan as Made In Ore (“ore” is the masculine form of “I”), the WarioWare title features a microgame editor for the Nintendo DSi described as a tool to “make your own music, graphics, pretty much everything, including programming…
Game Developer magazine have released the results of their patented “Game Developer Salary Survey”, which gives us an insight into just how much the average games developer gets paid. And the findings reveal that, provided a dev still has a job, most positions in the field pay quite handsomely. According to the survey, the average…
The gaming industry is big business — huge. Yet, according to Xbox Europe exec David Gosen, it doesn’t merit the same respect that Hollywood or the music biz does. “But it frustrates me that from a public standpoint, the industry still hasn’t got the stature, credibility and cut through that we all deserve. I still…
Being a Nintendo product, the DSi is big on shielding children from the evils of the world, perceived or otherwise. And the DSi is no different, shipping with an internet filtering program. But how’s it work? Built into the machine’s browser, it’s been developed by Astaro, a company that specialises in web security. Using “cloud-based…
Hong Kong doesn’t only get an Xbox 360 truck, but a cosplay lady to go with it. Recently, an Xbox 360 truck outfitted with LCD TVs and demo games hit the streets of Hong Kong to promote the console. There was also a cosplayer dressed as Reimi from Star Ocean 4. See that Xbox 360…
A little over two months on from the game’s release, Killzone 2 has just passed the one million mark on the game’s multiplayer leaderboard. Like other Sony online stats – which record individual accounts rather than unique users – this doesn’t mean that there have been one million individual players (it’s not like every single…
In the wake of British game company Eidos being acquired by Japan’s Square Enix, Order of the British Empire honoree Ian Livingstone has been awarded a new title. Livingstone will oversee the Tomb Raider and Hitman franchises as “Life President of Eidos”. Says Livingstone, “I’m delighted with new role of life president as it gives…
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