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News: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 storms UK chart
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has become the fastest-selling new title of 2010 so far in the UK, snatching the title away from Sega’s Aliens vs Predator.
The multiformat title outsold the well-received original by a factor of 3 to 1, with 53 per cent of sales on the Xbox 360, 31 per cent on the PlayStation [...]
News: More trouble for Ubisoft’s DRM system
Users of Ubisoft’s PC Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 have been unable to play over the weekend as the servers for its digital rights management system have been inaccessible.
The company’s DRM came under fire from the moment it was announced, as it requires that users connect to the internet while playing the [...]
News: Gamers overwhelm Australian ratings inquiry
The Australian government has received 55,000 submissions as part of its public consultation concerning the introduction of a restricted 18+ age rating for video.
The consultation was announced in late 2009, with Australian citizens being asked to submit their views before a February 28, 2010 deadline. In order to rally support the “Grow Up Australia” campaign [...]
News: Majesco receives new Nasdaq warning
US publisher Majesco has been given 180 days to raise its share price above USD 1 or face delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
The warning came as Majesco’s share price remained below USD 1 for 30 consecutive days. This follows the company’s disappointing fourth quarter results that showed a $7.2 million loss, despite improvements in [...]
News: "Triple-A indie" projects can be financially viable – Hecker
Independent game development for home consoles now has proven financially viable routes to market following the success of hits on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
That’s according to Chris Hecker, ex-Maxis developer, who said that although he is funding his own game project through savings and the help of family and friends, he’s confident it [...]
News: Nintendo developer Cing files for bankruptcy – report
Japanese developer Cing has filed for bankruptcy in Japan, with the company reportedly suffering from liabilities of 256 million yen (USD 2.9m/EUR 2.1m).
A brief report on the Japanese language site Net-IB, as translated by Web forum NeoGAF, suggests that the firm was forced to make the filing on 1 March.
A small studio with less than [...]
News: Free Realms hits 9 million subscribers
The total number of subscribers for free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Free Realms has hit 9 million users, according to a statement from Sony Online Entertainment.
The publisher has attributed the game’s continuing success to constant development of new features, themed in-game events and “persistent marketing support”.
“With Free Realms, we’ve been able to reflect the needs [...]
Interview: Going Solo
Chris Hecker has been working in the business for about 15 years, having first made the transition following a trip to what was then known as the Computer Developer Conference – CGDC. More recently he worked at Maxis on Spore, before going solo on his own title – SpyParty.
Here he talks about the [...]
Bodycount
Bodycount is a new first-person shooter in development at Codemaster’s Guildford studio.
Portal 2
This time around, GLaDOS’ reign of physics-bending tyranny is a whole new cube game. In fact it’s going to make Portal look like a trailer for the main event.
