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GDC 2010 Coverage
12 March 2010 17:16 GMT
For this year's GDC 2010 event, taking place all this week, we're using a new system for our coverage which is taking the form of an event blog. Every time we hear something interesting - either formally >> read more
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EA to ditch in-game ad partners and sell direct
12 March 2010 14:13 GMT
Electronic Arts is to drop in-game advertising partners IGA Worldwide and Massive Inc. and sell its ads in-house.
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OnLive to offer rentals without subscription
12 March 2010 11:15 GMT
OnLive boss Steve Perlman has revealed that the cloud gaming service will allow users to rent PC titles on a game-by-game basis, highlighting a more flexible approach for customers.
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Molyneux "not surprised" by PlayStation Move
12 March 2010 10:33 GMT
Peter Molyneux, Lionhead Studios founder and creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe, has characterised the PlayStation Move as "more a device for the core than it is for the casual >> read more
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Pac-Man creator to open Festival of Games 2010
12 March 2010 10:03 GMT
Toru Iwatini, the creator of arcade classic Pac-Man, is to open the Festival of Games 2010 event in The Netherlands with a keynote speech.
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EALA vets form Supergiant Games
12 March 2010 09:34 GMT
Three veterans from Electronic Arts' Los Angeles studio have announced the formation of their own San Francisco Bay Area developer: Supergiant Games.
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Blossom Pink PSP trounces DS in Japan
12 March 2010 09:11 GMT
Sales of the PSP in Japan almost doubled this week, following the release of a new "Blossom Pink" hardware colour.
As a result the PSP shot >> read more
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APB business model is "completely unique" - Jones
12 March 2010 08:56 GMT
Realtime Worlds' highly-anticipated PC game All Points Bulletin (APB) will have a completely unique business model, with the Scottish developer eschewing traditional subscription paymentsin >> read more
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NPD: US hardware sales down 20% in February
12 March 2010 08:43 GMT
US hardware sales have, in line with software sales, seen another year-on-year decline in February, down by 20 per cent to a total of $426.4 million.
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NPD: Games software sales drop 15% in February
12 March 2010 08
US software sales saw another double figure year-on-year decline in February, with revenues down 15 per cent to $624.4 million.
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Editorial:
Moving On
11 March 2010 17:11 GMT
It is no great surprise that, despite Microsoft's slowly building focus on Natal, Sony is likely to beat it to market with its PlayStation Move motion controller. The noise and heat generated >> read more
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Pricing could stunt OnLive growth
11 March 2010 16:20 GMT
A number of factors are pouring cold water on the launch plans for cloud gaming service OnLive, including an installed base too small to be meaningful for larger publishers, and a pricingmodel >> read more
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UK govt: Case for games tax relief is "coming together"
11 March 2010 15:58 GMT
Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Digital Britain, has offered renewed hope to the UK games sector, revealing the argument for tax breaks is "getting stronger", with an "update" likely in this >> read more
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Valve and Epic ink Steamworks deal
11 March 2010 14:30 GMT
Valve Software and Epic Games have inked an agreement to include Valve's Steamworks suite of tools and services to all licensees of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 middleware, free of charge.
"Epic?s >> read more
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Image Metrics settles $8 million funding deal
11 March 2010 10:16 GMT
Leading facial animation technology firm Image Metrics has announced the closure of an $8 million round of financing, which it intends to use to increase the scope of its sales and marketing >> read more
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Old Republic EA's "largest ever" game
11 March 2010 09:26 GMT
EA chief financial officer Eric Brown has claimed that BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic is the publisher's most expensive game in the company's nearly 30 year history.
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Third Pokemon Ranger title tops Japanese charts
11 March 2010 08:47 GMT
The third entry in the Pokemon Ranger series on Nintendo DS has cruised to an easy victory in the weekly Japanese sales charts, with sales of 161,000 units. Its predecessor sold 193,337 units >> read more
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No EA Sports Active 2.0 for Natal
11 March 2010 08
EA has announced that EA Sports Active 2.0 will be released this autumn on the Wii, PlayStation 3, iPhone and iPod touch - but not the Xbox 360 or Project Natal.
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GamesIndustry.biz to launch German edition in April
11 March 2010 08
A German edition of GamesIndustry.biz is to launch in April, with MCV founder Christoph Holowaty acting as managing editor.
The site willoffer >> read more
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Interview:
Nexon USA's Daniel Kim
11 March 2010 01
Free-to-play is a sector of the online business that's grown significantly in the past five years, and with MapleStory present through that whole time, Nexon can certainly be attributed some of the responsibility.
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Sony names motion controller PlayStation Move
10 March 2010 20:12 GMT
Sony has finally announced the name of its PlayStation 3 motion controller ? now officially known as PlayStation Move ? revealing that it will also operate with a 'sub-controller' alongside >> read more
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MySpace hopes games will emulate music success
10 March 2010 19:12 GMT
MySpace has told GamesIndustry.biz that it hopes that its concentrated push into games will emulate the success it's already achieved in the music business.
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OnLive to launch June 17 in US
10 March 2010 18:48 GMT
OnLive, the cloud gaming service announced a year ago at GDC, will launch on June 17 in the US.
The service, which grants access to a range >> read more
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Former Facebook director joins Gaikai
10 March 2010 18
Cloud gaming service Gaikai has announced its first senior management appointment will be Michael Bowen, the former director of technical operations for Facebook.
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Interview:
MySpace's Mike Jones
10 March 2010 11:59 GMT
It's been impossible to get away from the talk surrounding social network games in the past six months, and well into 2010, it's looking a lot like being the hot topic for this year - alongside motion >> read more
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Nintendo "not there yet" on new console, says Fils-Aime
10 March 2010 10:23 GMT
Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime has claimed that the company is not yet ready to seriously think about releasing a new home console.
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Evolved games market has stumped next-gen console plans
10 March 2010 10:10 GMT
Alex St John has told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes the reason Microsoft and Sony haven't announced a new generation of consoles is because it's no longer clear what they can do to improve >> read more
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PC games revenues up 3% in 2009
10 March 2010 09:40 GMT
Software revenues for the PC games market rose by 3 per cent last year to a total of $13.1 billion, according to the new 2009 Horizons Report from the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA).
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Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million units
10 March 2010 09:33 GMT
New release Final Fantasy XIII has shipped 5 million units worldwide on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, according to publisher Square Enix.
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Arc but not Natal support for Tiger Woods 11
10 March 2010 08:38 GMT
Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 will include support for the PlayStation motion controller - currently believed to be codenamed "Arc" - but not Microsoft's Project Natal.
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Movie studios sign for PlayStation Network
10 March 2010 08:34 GMT
20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution are all set to offer HD movies for purchase >> read more
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EA to distribute Rock Band 3
10 March 2010 08
After initial doubts about its involvement in future releases, Harmonix has confirmed that Electronic Arts is due to distribute MTV and Viacom's Rock Band 3 this Christmas.
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Vigil: THQ has taken "a lot of bullets" while restructuring
10 March 2010 08
The restructuring of THQ, which has resulted in cancelled projects and studio closures, has been necessary to help turn around the company and change perceptions that it's not just a house >> read more
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Interview:
Maintaining the Vigil
09 March 2010 15:38 GMT
Vigil Games was founded in 2005 by David Adams and Joe Madureira, and acquired by THQ in 2006. Earlier this year the team released the critically-acclaimed Darksiders as their first full internal project >> read more
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EA Partners to publish 38 Studios RPG
09 March 2010 11:50 GMT
EA Partners has sign up to publish 38 Studios' single-player role-playing game, codenamed Project Mercury.
The game is in development at the >> read more
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Ubisoft DRM servers attacked again
09 March 2010 11:26 GMT
Ubisoft has revealed that the problems with the company's newly implemented DRM solution for new PC titles are due to ongoing attacks from hackers and not as a result of high demand, as previously >> read more
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Full Natal line-up due at E3
09 March 2010 11:03 GMT
Microsoft is due to unveil its "full line-up" of Project Natal games at E3 2010 in June, according to comments made by Mindy Mount, CFO of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices division.
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Analyst: PS3 to outsell 360 and Wii by cycle end
09 March 2010 10:22 GMT
The PlayStation 3 will outsell its rivals over its lifetime, becoming the best selling home console of the current generation - according to a new report by the Strategy Analytics Connected >> read more
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Sony: God Of War III budget is $44 million
09 March 2010 09:26 GMT
The budget for Santa Monica Studio's imminent PlayStation 3 exclusive God of War III has been placed at $44 million, according to an interview with director of product development John Hight
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Games success influencing movie industry, says MW2 director
09 March 2010 09:08 GMT
The high-profile success of titles such as Modern Warfare 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV has turned around Hollywood's perception of videogames, as the film industry looks to alternative mediums >> read more
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Modern Warfare 2 hits 25 million unique users
09 March 2010 08:29 GMT
Infinity Ward director of communications Robert Bowling has announced that the total number of unique users for Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has hit 25 million players.
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Indie veterans form Tomorrow Corporation
09 March 2010 08:22 GMT
The creators of indie titles such as World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure have formed a new development studio named Tomorrow Corporation.
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Globex signs Pandemic vets for US expansion
09 March 2010 08
Some of the leading talent behind Pandemic's most successful hits including Mercenaries, Star Wars Battlefront and Destroy All Humans have been signed by Globex Studios to open a new LA-based >> read more
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Interview:
Hooray for Hollywood
08 March 2010 18:58 GMT
As a creative talent Keith Arem has worked on multiple games, most recently as director on Activision's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, but also on the performance side of game development for Sony, THQ, >> read more
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Valve confirms Steam for Mac
08 March 2010 10:58 GMT
Valve has confirmed that it will be bringing Steam, its market-leading digital download services, to Mac formats this April.
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 storms UK chart
08 March 2010 10:22 GMT
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has become the fastest-selling new title of 2010 so far in the UK, snatching the title away from Sega's Aliens vs Predator.
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More trouble for Ubisoft's DRM system
08 March 2010 10:08 GMT
Users of Ubisoft's PC games Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 have been unable to play over the weekend as the servers for its digital rights management system have been inaccessible.
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Gamers overwhelm Australian ratings inquiry
08 March 2010 09:17 GMT
The Australian government has received 55,000 submissions as part of its public consultation concerning the introduction of a restricted 18+ age rating for videogames.
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Majesco receives new Nasdaq warning
08 March 2010 08:59 GMT
US publisher Majesco has been given 180 days to raise its share price above USD 1 or face delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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"Triple-A indie" projects can be financially viable - Hecker
08 March 2010 08:53 GMT
Independent game development for home consoles now has proven financially viable routes to market following the success of hits on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
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