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How Did Infogrames Atari Do Last Year?
According to the company’s fiscal results for the financial year ending March 31, Infogrames posted net losses to the tune of €226.1 million. During the previous fiscal year, the company only posted losses €51.1. However, the good news is that consolidated revenues were up 51 percent to €136.4 million in a sluggish global economy. US…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cryptic Studios To Rehash Old Atari IP In “A Series Of New Games”
When City of Heroes developers Cryptic were bought by Atari last year, it was said they’d be working on a single, secret game due in 2011. Now it turns out they’re working on several games. Atari’s yearly fiscal report has revealed that Cryptic “is working on the development of a series of new games based…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Phil Harrison No Longer President Of Atari
Last year, in a major coup for the fledgling company, Atari managed to hire former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison to serve as President. Now? Now he’s no longer President. According to a statement made by Atari as part of the company’s fiscal year report: Because of a shift of business operations to the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
And Now Rape Games Are Not Banned in Japan
Don’t believe everything you see on television — even when it’s reported by a major Japanese television network — and especially when reported by TBS, it seems. Earlier, it was reported by TBS News that the Ethics Organization of Computer Software had voluntarily agreed to halt the sale and manufacture of “rape-type” games. Too bad…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Doom Is Coming For The iPhone
Having first teased the game a few months ago, id’s John Carmack has provided a slew of details on the company’s upcoming iPhone port of their classic PC shooter Doom. Carmack goes into exhaustive detaill on how the game has been nipped and tucked to both work and look good on the handheld, but the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Robots We Love: KOS-MOS
If her looks don’t kill, then her superhuman strength or her melee morphing arms will. She’s KOS-MOS from Xenosaga, and we love her. But do you love her? Rally the troops, tally the troops! KOS-MOS has made it to the final round. She’s up against robot assassin HK-47. Stiff competition. He’s a drone, she’s got…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
DJ Hero Screens Show Off Gameplay
Need pictures to go with the words explaining how DJ Hero will actually work? These screenshots should do, showing it works…well, a lot like Guitar Hero, really. Which is what you’d expect. As for DJ Shadow, who features in all these screens…well, I’ve seen Shadow live a few times over the past decade, and never,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Look At Bethesda’s Brink
A few days ago a trademark for “Brink” popped up from developer Bethesda. What is “Brink”? It’s a game, and this is its teaser trailer. Let’s see there’s a futuristic city scape, an eye ball and some blood, but no gameplay footage. The title is multi-platform and will be out “Spring 2010.” That’s next year,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rapstar Announced, Is Like SingStar But, Well…
4mm Games – the new studio formed by the two of the guys who founded Rockstar – have announced their debut game. And it’s called Def Jam Rapstar, a hip-hop karaoke game. As is par for the course with these stupid pre-E3 announcements, there’s not much else being announced aside from the game itself. No…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Game Industry Assocation Bans Rape Games [Updated]
PC game Rapelay might have been released legally in Japan three years ago, but that didn’t stop it from causing an international brouhaha. It’s boiled over, the Japanese game industry has taken action. It’s planned for sale and manufacture of “rape-type” games to be banned. According to Japan’s TBS News, an industry governing body comprised…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Letters And Numbers Has Kojima Productions Announced So Far?
Kojima Productions has been launching a seemingly endless stream of countdown clocks for an upcoming title. Ungh. Still! They seem to be offering clues. Let’s recap. To date, these letters have appeared on the Kojima “Next” site: “S” (or number “5”) “R” “P” “E” “C” “@” (or a lowercase “e”) “O” (or number “0”) The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kojima Updates Site Yet Again With Familiar Face, Hidden Mystery Mask
And it continues. On and on and on. Kojima Productions updated its countdown page today, revealing this image. Is it Raiden? Is it Gray Fox? Is it Sunny? Who knows? Hideo Kojima does, that’s who. Him and his minions. There are also new letters: C, O, P. There’s the number six, too. The site also…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Hardware War Now Officially Boring
Minor fluctuations in the currently tepid Japanese console race don’t make this week’s Media Create chart all that exciting, to be honest. A slightly slinking PlayStation presence and marginally expanded Nintendo one isn’t exactly thrilling. But neither was the software contest, which saw a pair of Nintendo DS titles beating out the Japanese release of…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Shooting For A 300,000 Player Online Game?
Yeah, you read that right. 300,000 players. A job listing issued by Microsoft’s says exactly that, indicating that the game will be for the 360 and that it will be in “real-time”. The job is specifically looking for somebody who is “an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Here’s (Some Of) What Namco Bandai’s Bringing To E3
Publisher Namco Bandai doesn’t seem quite ready to reveal its entire E3 lineup for 2009, but it has let us know which of its games are definitely going to be there. Any surprises? No, silly. Why would there be surprises in a partially-revealed lineup of games that Namco Bandai is showing off at E3? It’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii RPG Fragile Coming Stateside Via XSEED
Namco Bandai and tri-Crescendo’s role-playing game Fragile is coming to North American Wiis later this year, thanks to publisher XSEED. If you were a fan of Baten Kaitos or Eternal Sonata, this one’s for you. According to IGN, XSEED has picked up Namco Bandai of America’s publishing slack, with Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band To Feel The Pain Of Iron Maiden In June
MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band is getting a little heavier the week after E3, as the game’s community ‘zine has revealed that a dozen new Iron Maiden tracks will be released as downloadable content. The Iron Maiden track pack brings 12 classic tracks and new live concert performances to Rock Band and Rock Band…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 28, 2009