While many independent developers have expressed their concern that commissions from publishers have dried up in the past year – thanks to the contracting recession and greater caution about new IP – a panel of publishing executives has identified the people on a team and the technology it uses as two of the crucial elements [...]
Bethesda Softworks has entered into a distribution partnership with Namco Bandai for the release of Fallout: New Vegas, due to ship later this year. The partnership grants Namco Bandai distribution rights in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Benelux, Nordic, Australia and New Zealand for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of [...]
US specialist retail giant, top, is planning to educate its customers on the benefits of digital downloads for the it sells, with COO J Paul Raines believing that DLC is “a good thing”. Speaking on a panel about the future of digital distribution at SMU’s Game Business Law conference, Raines stressed that while developers and [...]
Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division has enjoyed stand out profits for the second quarter ended December 31, up from $130 million to $375 million. The division, which includes Xbox 360, for Windows and Zune, saw revenue fall from $3.2 billion to $2.9 billion. The company shipped 5.2 million Xbox 360 consoles compared to 6 million [...]
Rockstar is to release Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on PlayStation 3 and PC at the end of March. The title – which contains the two episodes The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony – has been available on Xbox 360 since October, but Rockstar hadn’t confirmed when it would [...]
The media circus which has attended the launch of Apple’s iPad has had one unfortunate effect – it’s made sensible discussion of the pros and cons of the device all but impossible, buried under a mountain of emotive, knee-jerk reaction from all sides of the field. Apple is a company that polarises opinion more than [...]
Sony Computer Entertainment has revealed that it is in the process of restructuring its Liverpool studio following “project prioritisation” by the Worldwide Studios division. No details have been released on the number of posts affected, but Industry.biz understands that the company will look to relocate staff to other studios where possible – but that some [...]
Sony has declined to comment on today’s reports stating that the company is set to announce a ¥100 billion ($1.1 billion / £690 million) operating profit for the October-December quarter – the first increase in Q3 profit for the company in five years. According to Nikkei (reported by Reuters), the Sony Computer Entertainment division will [...]
Investment in videogame companies is at a low this console generation, but analyst firm Cowan and Company believes the business is due to for an upturn in the coming months. The recession, encroaching iPhone sales, publishers struggling to grow profits and a poor 2009 has lead investors to assume the current cycle is “dead and [...]
Apple’s new iPad could challenge Sony’s PSP and Nintendo’s DS and become a link between mobile and home console gaming, according the German developer lbx . But CEO Fabian Thiele also said that a lack of support for Flash and multitasking may hamper the iPad as a home entertainment device when compared to Netbook offerings [...]
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