Sony’s decision to trim down the size of the PlayStation 3,in both system scope and price, has succeeded in creating some serious momentum for themselves. However, as appealing as the system is aesthetically, the question remains…how does it functionality compare to its older, chunkier brother? We may have the answer to that question, through a [...]
The PS3-exclusive Katamari Forever has gone gold (development has completed), Namco Bandai has announced. The title will come on Blu-ray and hit US stores with a price tag of $49.99 on Sep 22. This price seems ridiculously steep for what is essentially a graphically-updated version of previous Katamari , especially since Beautiful Katamari on the [...]
A new research study on the efficiency of in-game advertising has concluded that some brands have already benefited strongly from good recognition rates, but warns that the overall effectiveness of the medium is dependent on following certain rules. The study, a collaboration between gamematrix – the research department of 11 Prozent Communication – and the [...]
Sales of the PlayStation 3 have plummeted 65 per cent on last week in Japan ahead of the new slim hardware launch, putting the console – with 2052 sales – at the bottom of the latest hardware chart. Media Create figures show that while the PlayStation 3 showed the biggest drop however, sales were down [...]
Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds has opened a new office in Dundee, Scotland, and intends to grow from 265 staff to 300 by the end of the year. The space comprises of 8000 sqft, and is in addition to the 26,000 sqft office already in use. The studio’s new title, APB, is due to launch in [...]
The entry deadline for the Indie Game Challenge has been extended from October 1 to October 31, its organisers have announced. The competition, run by The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, top and The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University and launched in July, encourages professional and non-professional game developers to submit game betas and [...]
Chief creative officer of Electronic Arts, Rich Hilleman, has said that he expects format holders Sony and Microsoft will continue to work on incremental hardware updates before they reveal brand new home consoles. Speaking at the Hot Chips conference in Stanford, Hilleman said that both company’s have pushed all their resources to establish the current [...]
Sony is to focus on the PlayStation 3′s Blu-ray playing and movie downloading capabilities as much as its game playing ones in a new ad campaign being rolled out ahead of the launch of its new slim console. The company wants to “reposition” the hardware, SCEA senior vice president of marketing Peter Dille told the [...]
For a company to organise a huge gaming conference dedicated solely to its own products feels rather like hubris, but this is an indulgence which Blizzard has unquestionably earned. Few developers have had such a profound impact on the market in recent years – it’s with good reason that the eyes of the industry around [...]
First things first: there’s a lake-load of blood in the game proper, but certainly there’s nothing to rival a limb-lopping fest like Dead Space. And, as far as sexy times go, think God of War II pre-watershed tame. …
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