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January 28th, 2010UncategorizedGamesIndustry reports on comments by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot about what to expect from the coming generation of gaming hardware. In addition to greater integration between game hardware and set-top boxes, he said he doesn't expect Apple to stop with the iPhone as a platform for games.
"We will see more customers coming to the videogame industry, and they will not only come to the basic consoles like we have today, but they will start also to come on all the boxes that you see under the TVs. TV boxes will be more powerful, and with accessibility, will help to take more people.
So we will see more consoles on which we will be able to put product." Guillemot continued, "... because you saw new interfaces with the Wii, with the Wiimote, and also with the DS, with the stylus, what we see for the future is that there will be also big announcements in interfaces.
And it will not only happen on consoles, but it will also happen on those TV boxes as well." -
January 27th, 2010Uncategorized
Terminal Reality has announced that Namco Bandai is the latest publisher to license its cross-platform Infernal Engine.
According to the company, the engine will be utilised by developer Red Fly Studios on the just-announced Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked.
"We are extremely pleased to be using Terminal Realitys Infernal Engine for Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked as it is a full featured, unified environment for game development," said Namco Bandai executive producer Mike Morishita. "With rendering, special effects, scripting and audio tools ready to go, our team at Red Fly Studio was able to focus on what is truly important for the title - cooking up a storm."
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January 26th, 2010Uncategorized
Resident Evil 5 has sold 5 million units worldwide, according to company CFO Kazuhiko Abe.
Speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit last week in Tokyo, Abe revealed that sales across both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game sold a combined 4.4 million units by March 31, with an additional 570,000 sold in April. Though these figures combine to only 4.97 million, the game is assumed to have sold more than the 30,000 units necessary in May to push it over 5 million.
According to the NPD Group, Resident Evil 5 topped US game sales in March, moving a combined 1.5 million units in its first three weeks of availability.
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January 25th, 2010Uncategorized
US specialist retailer GameStop has recorded profits of USD 70.4 million for the first quarter ended May 2, up 13.4 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Total sales for the quarter grew 9.2 per cent to USD 1.98 billion, led by the successful launch of the Nintendo DSi handheld and two Capcom titles Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV.
However, the company blamed the recession in Europe and the slowdown of new console sales on a decline in comparable store sales of 1.5 per cent.
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October 19th, 2009Uncategorized"It's a global first for Microsoft, and massive news for Xbox owners. Redmond and the largest pay TV service in the UK — Sky, owned in part by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp — has tied a deal that brings simulcast TV, sports, entertainment shows, pay-per-view movies and back catalogue television to the Xbox 360.
It's an entirely streamed service, offering no download-to-own content, and partly rivals the BBC iPlayer, which is available on UK PlayStation consoles and the Nintendo Wii. The service will go live later in the year at no cost to existing subscribers, and screenshots show it fits in seamlessly with the Xbox Live interface." -
October 18th, 2009Uncategorized
God of War III screenshots
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October 17th, 2009Uncategorized
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
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October 16th, 2009Uncategorized
Starts with family action in Aragorn's Quest.
Warner Bros. has announced that it will be creating a series of Lord of the Rings games - based on both literary and film rights - that will span multiple genres and platforms.
The first of these will be The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, a third-person action-adventure for "kids and their families" to be released for Wii, DS, PSP and PS2 this autumn.
Players will take the role of Aragorn in his greatest quests from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, fighting with bow, sword and spear on foot and horseback. The Wii version will allow two player co-op with Gandalf. It's set in "a colourful, action-filled rendition of Middle-earth that will appeal to new and dedicated fans".
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October 15th, 2009Uncategorized
Signal Hill analyst Todd Greenwald has stated that the current console cycle is "not even close to nearing an end", in his preview of the upcoming E3 expo.
With the current cycle in its third or fourth year, Greenwald suggests that fears of a decline in hardware and software sales are unwarranted and that E3 itself will "provide some signs that the industry is alive and well".
"We think it's highly premature to be thinking of the cycle ending until all of these consoles are well below the USD 199 mark," says Greenwald. "Furthermore, Microsoft and Sony have invested so much in their current hardware line, as have third party publishers, that we don't think any party is seriously interested in throwing away these investments and starting over from scratch."
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October 14th, 2009Uncategorized
Take-Two Interactive has announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2009, reporting decreased revenue and USD 10.1 million in net loss.
Net revenue was reported at USD 229.7 million, down from USD 539.8 million in the same period last year. Net loss was reported at USD 10.1 million, compared to a gain of USD 98.2 million in the second quarter 2008.
The publisher's loss was less than it expected, which the company attributes to a more efficient operating structure and a balanced software portfolio.
