Archive for September 2nd, 2010
UK studio Blitz has confirmed it will build “full motion control functionality” into its BlitzTech middleware engine. The SDK now includes features designed to work with both Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’ s Move. The new tech was created over the last year, for forthcoming Blitz titles Yoostar2 and The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout. <a href="http://www.industry.biz/articles/2010-09-02-blitz-middleware-to-include-kinect-and-move-support”> [...]
Sony has confirmed that Qriocity, a new cloud-based, subscription model music and video streaming service, will be launching on a several hardware devices later this year in Europe. Video on demand via Qriocity has been available in the US since April, but this year will see the launch of new music streaming service Music Unlimited. [...]
Micropayment firm ATLAS Interactive has appointed a new Chief Operations Officer. Andreas Pritzlaff has been promoted after two years working in Mobile Solutions at the German firm, and will now head up business operations including product management, purchasing, business development and customer care. Said Marco Priewe, Managing Director of ATLAS, “Mr. Pritzlaff has in the [...]
Activision Blizzard’s parent company, French media conglomerate Vivendi, has today increased its profit predictions for 2010 – despite recording a dip in second-quarter profits of 3.7 per cent to 669 million (£552.6m) from 695 million (£574m) last year. Vivendi did not hesitate to point out that the increase in predicted profits was due to an [...]
Electronic Arts has accused Edge ‘ notoriously litigious boss Tim Langdell of “fraudulent misrepresentations”, as it battles against his claim that EA title Mirror’s Edge infringes his trademark of the word ‘edge.’ The publisher has filed a counter-suit against Langdell, claiming his failure to release any involving the contested trademark for some years constitutes deception [...]
An open source alternative to the PSJailbreak hack called PSGroove has been made available this morning, with the features intended for piracy removed. The homebrew code must be downloaded to a AT90USB or variant before being installed, part of a USB development kit available for as little as £25. In addition, the new hack doesn’t [...]
Mobile publisher Gameloft has announced its financial results for the first half of its fiscal year to June 30, 2010, noting an 11 per cent increase in overall sales compared to the same time frame last year to 66.6 million. Those results helped the company achieve a 5.3 million profit, more than doubling last year’s [...]
Xbox’s Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) has confirmed rumours of a new model of Xbox 360 controller, citing the main improvement as a new D-pad which transforms from a directional controller to a single button when rotated 90 degrees. The post on Hryb’s blog details all of the new features of the controller, including a [...]
Electronic Arts has revealed that its internal estimates make this year’s edition of Madden NFL the best-selling game for August in the US, across all platforms. The publisher announced that sales of the game were up 5 per cent year-on-year, with the release of the Ultimate Team mode at launch propelling digital revenue up by [...]
Beleaguered firm Interplay is to step back into the publishing business. It yesterday announced its new Discovery program, intended to offer “great new at great new prices” from small developers worldwide. Interplay shut down active business in 2004, but was kept alive as a corporate entity solely as a result of selling the Fallout license [...]
Recent Comments