Unity Technologies has announced that the first tier Unity package will now be available for free – the platform formerly known as Unity Indie previously cost USD 199 but can now be downloaded without charge. The news was announced at the company’s annual conference, this year in San Francisco, alongside a number of updates to [...]
Nintendo has confirmed it is to release a new version of the DSi with larger screens in Japan on November 21. Rumoured earlier in the week, the company officially announced the console at a press event held in Tokyo. The console will feature two 4.2 inch screens a 93 per cent increase on the [...]
Nintendo has cut its full-year profit forecasts as sales of its Wii home console fall, with net income expected to be JPY 230 billion (USD 2.53 billion) for the year ending March 2010 – down from the JPY 300 billion (USD 3.30 billion) of previous forecasts. For the six months to September 2009, Nintendo reported [...]
As video become more detailed, the stories that go with them have become far more intricate – and crucially, the work of professional writers, rather than producers or other team members… mostly. Sidelines, an offshoot of dialogue-recording company Side, is an agency which represents writers working in the industry, and here its director Sini Downling [...]
Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has confirmed that RuneScape successor MechScape has been canned just prior to its release. The decision, he told Industry.biz, was made in August when the assembled game failed to meet the standards of Jagex’s new CEO and his team. “Initially the reason for building MechScape was that we would learn all [...]
Videogame writing agency Sidelines has added Anthony Johnston to its list, the man behind the stories for the original Dead Space comic, videogame and Dead Space: Extraction. Johnston, also the author of the Wasteland comic book series, came to the attention of the company when sister business Side used his work in recording dialogue for [...]
Feedback for the forthcoming Ubisoft title Assassin’s Creed II has been “extremely positive,” according to the publisher’s head of marketing in the UK, Murray Pannel, while the lion’s share of its advertising spend is still to come. “All the feedback we’re getting is extremely positive – certainly better than I was expecting, having come into [...]
A total of 86 per cent of 10 to 19 year olds in America will ask for at least one videogame as a gift this Christmas, according to a survey published by US specialist retailer Game Crazy. In the survey conducted by Weekly Reader Research over 1000 US teens and tweens (defined in the survey [...]
The Eurogamer Expo has got off to a flying start in Leeds, with over 2000 gamers turning up on the first day to sample a selection of getting a first public showing in the UK. Demand for the event went through the roof before the doors even opened yesterday, with Eurogamer and the Royal Armouries [...]
TIGA CEO Richard Wilson has told Industry.biz that he has seen an improvement in the mainstream perception of the video industry in the past two years he’s been in the job, and that more pro-active measures have been taken with the likes of the media and politicians to try to ensure a more balanced view [...]
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