Another awards night, another prize for Media Molecule, which last night collected the BAFTA for Best Videogame at the 2009 Children’s Awards, having picked up the Artistic Achievement prize at the gaming ceremony earlier this year. Clutching the weighty award, presented by The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury, studio boss Mark Healey told Industry.biz: “It means [...]
Vienna-based handheld developer Xendex has announced that it has secured an additional USD 3.5 million in a second round of funding, adding to the investment of USD 3.6 million from June last year. The company has doubled its revenues in the past year, despite encountering “some of the most challenging market conditions” in the industry’s [...]
ELSPA has awarded Modern Warfare 2 its highest accolade in the form of a diamond sales award. The Xbox 360 version of the game has become just the 16th to receive the award, which is given to selling over one million in the UK. Modern Warfare 2 remained at the top of the all-formats chart [...]
French game developer Quantic Dream has never made secret its ambitions to bring true narrative meaning to video . 2005′s intriguing Indigo Prophecy (a.k.a. Fahrenheit) expressed the direction that the studio wanted to take, and with the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain, the studio hopes to take its philosophy on narrative and video even [...]
While the next Zelda won’t be a radical departure from past , it may yet contain gameplay additions most won’t expect. Like flying as a means of transportation, perhaps? If series’ director Eiji Aonuma’s <a href="http://www.computerandvideo.com/article.php?id=228364?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS” target=”_blank”>hints have any merit to them, that may just happen. “I have an eight-year-old son myself at home, and [...]
Stellar sales of Modern Warfare 2 have helped Activision to nudge its Call of Duty franchise through the USD 3 billion revenues mark, the publisher has announced. According to a statement released today, the six titles in the series have now sold over 55 million units between them, with the latest instalment smashing entertainment launch [...]
Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack has said that the sheer number of developers being laid off from both in-house and independent studios over the past 18 months has been staggering, and that his company is now only a handful of studios with more than a decade of experience in the business. Speaking exclusively to Industry.biz, [...]
Videogame and speciality magazine publisher Future Publishing has discussed its ongoing experiments with paid-for online content; including paywalls, exclusive content for magazine buyers and free content supported by paid-for archives. “We’re experimenting in small places right across the portfolio, because we don’t have the answer yet,” said CEO Steve Spring in an interview with website [...]
The forthcoming Project Natal motion control technology could replace the television remote control in the future, automatically scheduling content according to the people in a room, according to comments made by Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten. Speaking at the Streaming Media West show, as reported by Yahoo! Tech, Whitten described the increasing number of [...]
Amazon’s most wished for video game lists in both the US and UK have been topped by the Wii’s New Super Mario Bros – ahead of Modern Warfare 2. The US list reads:
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