Archive for September, 2009
Altered Beast Arcade Review
Altered Beast (Arcade)It just won’t stay dead.
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News: Research shows gamers are more aggressive to strangers
Research has shown the testosterone levels of gamers playing competitive increase when they beat a stranger, but decrease when they beat a friend; a finding which suggests that can produce the same biological effect as real warfare.
In general, it’s thought to be advantageous for people to release excessive testosterone when engaged in [...]
News: Future expects results at "lower end" of expectations
Future, the publisher of several video magazines – including Edge – has issued a trading statement ahead of its full year results release in November, noting that it expects its financial performance to weigh in “towards the lower end of market expectations.”
The company anticipates revenue to show a modest decline, but the statement noted that [...]
News: SOE opens up Usability Lab
Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its in-house testing facility, the Usability Lab, will be made available to external companies for a variety of projects.
The facility will offer services including usability testing, heuristic evaluations, focus groups and product evaluations, and has been used on SOE’s recent MMO release Free Realms, which has notched up over [...]
News: Microsoft invests in South Korean online development
Microsoft is to invest more than KRW 23 billion (USD 19 million) into South Korea’s online gaming industry.
According to the Korea Creative Content Agency, the money will be divided among 25 local development and game operation companies, and used for training, marketing and development assistance.
“When Korea’s online game technologies are combined with Microsoft’s development [...]
News: David Jaffe to keynote GCAP 09
David Jaffe, God of War director and founder of his current studio Eat, Sleep, Play, has been revealed as one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Game Connect: Asia Pacific event.
He’ll be reflecting on his career in video so far, particularly his time at Sony Computer Entertainment America where he was responsible for bringing [...]
News: Microsoft: Halo 3: ODST disc error "not widespread"
Microsoft has issued a statement downplaying the Halo 3: ODST “Unreadable Disc” reports that surfaced last week.
“We are aware of a very small number of people who are reporting they can’t play the game,” the platform holder told Eurogamer.
“We are looking into it, but at this point it doesn’t appear to be a widespread issue.”
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News: App Store downloads top 2 billion
More than two billion apps have now been downloaded from the App Store by users, Apple has confirmed.
These downloads have been accumulated from 85,000 apps available to more than 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch consumers. The total number of developers currently registered for Apple’s iPhone Developer Programme has now reached 125,000.
“The rate of [...]
News: Ubisoft: DS market has declined this year
Ubisoft’s sales numbers for the Nintendo DS platform are down this year compared to 2008, as part of the global slowdown following the economic collapse.
According to the publisher’s UK For Everyone boss, Mark Slaughter, Ubisoft’s aim this year is to defend the market share established by the Imagine range of for girls as [...]
Interview: Imagine: Marketing
Following the first part of our look at Ubisoft’s incredibly successful Imagine range of for girls, in which For Everyone boss Mark Slaughter looked at the origins of the brand and how it’s evolved, in the concluding part he’s joined by kids’ brand manager Rachel Grant to explain how the titles are [...]
