You know for a game that apparently got off to a slow start and was a bit… crap, 700,000 copies sold isn’t half bad for Alpha Protocol. The Obsidian-developed espionage RPG has been available for over 2 months now and looks to be making Sega a good bit of dough. Not enough for a sequel, [...]
Owners of the PC version of Halo: Combat Evolved have been deemed worthy by Bungie to unlock a visual bonus in the upcoming Halo: Reach. How will players receive the bonus? According to Bungie’s Roger Wolfson, as long as you’ve authenticated your Combat Evolved key on the Bungie server, you’ll be able to use that [...]
Jason West and Vince Zampella, co-founders of Call of Duty creator Infinity Ward, are speaking on a panel at the upcoming QuakeCon in sunny Dallas, Texas in a couple of weeks. West and Zampella recently formed Respawn Entertainment, and signed a publishing deal with Activision bitter rival Electronic Arts. The duo’s first major public appearance [...]
Bungie, creator of Halo, is moving to a bigger, better, and more badass development studio. The team that brought us the Halo trilogy, plus ODST, and the upcoming Halo: Reach are shipping out of their old digs, and moving to the grandest, most spectacularly wonderful building ever. Well, perhaps that last piece was a bit [...]
Realtime Worlds has shown off its latest project, ambitiously labelled as a cross between Google Earth and a Nintendo game. Project: MyWorld aims to combine social networking and traditional and casual , incorporating established services such as Facebook and Twitter. As well as courting consumers with a teaser site and video, Realtime Worlds has also [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has fanned the flames of reports that the search giant is planning a game-focused rival to Facebook. Rumours abound that a social networking service known as “Google Me” is in development, with “Google ” now mooted as a major part of it especially following the company’s $100 million investment in [...]
Nintendo has recorded a loss of ¥25.2 billion ($288 million) for the three months ended June 2010, compared to a profit of ¥42.4 billion for the same period last year. The company blamed lower prices of DS hardware and an appreciation of the yen – overseas sales accounted for 86.5 per cent of business during [...]
Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that it is to begin a full localisation programme for the 18 countries that it services in Latin America, including key titles such as Killzone 3 and inFamous 2. The move continues the company’s focus on the region, and the announcement comes one year after the PlayStation manufacturer began [...]
Director Guillermo del Toro has confirmed he is working on multiple game projects. While the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy had previously stated he was unlikely to contribute to a Hobbit game even before he stood down from helming the Lord of the Rings prequel, he has often spoken of his fondness of the [...]
Welcome to the Establishment Addressing the crowd of industry luminaries at The London Hilton last March – gaming giants that included Nintendo maven Shigeru Miyamoto and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell – an eminent speaker at the BAFTA Video Game Awards took a moment to acknowledge something of a sea-change currently permeating the gaming world. Sure, [...]
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