Adam Mersky, digital communications director at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, has questioned the notion that subscription MMOs are a dying breed. Warner Bros. owns Turbine Inc., the developer behind the The Lord Of The Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, both of which enjoyed great success after switching to the free-to-play business model. However, [...]
EverQuest, Sony Online Entertainment’s venerable MMO, will be adopting a free-to-play business model as it reaches its thirteenth anniversary. The game, which has seen numerous updates, and runs concurrently with its sequel, EverQuest II, will turn thirteen in March. Various new payment methods will be introduced as it does, including a free-to-play option, game unlocks [...]
It’s been a week of measurements, comparisons and percentages. The next-generation Xbox will be six times more powerful than the 360, and 20 per cent more powerful than the Wii U. As for Nintendo’s next-gen console, apparently that’s packing twice the power of Microsoft’s current offering. Meanwhile, as Digital Foundry recently revealed, Raspberry Pi’s graphics [...]
Microsoft France’s director of marketing has made it clear that we will not see a new Xbox console in 2012, despite rumours to the contrary. “We’re in an industry that talks a lot, that likes to tell stories. I am not convinced things will happen this year,” he told LePoint.fr “Xbox 360′s cycle is not [...]
Reports from America suggest that Facebook could be filing the S-1 for its $10 billion IPO as early as today,with an expected valuation somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal Facebook is aiming for the IPO between April and June, and papers will be filed this week. The filing [...]
Unique visits to the eleven pan-European Eurogamer sites have risen by over ten per cent since last year, the latest traffic numbers have shown. The final tally for unique browser visits for Eurogamer.net and its ten other foreign language editions was 5,778,816 between November 1 and 31, 2011. Over 42 million pages of content was [...]
Marc Fascia, previously the lead gameplay programmer at Ninja Theory, has joined Splash Damage as technical director. “I’m really happy to be trusted with this incredible responsibility at Splash Damage,” he said. “We’re working on some great things, and managing such a big and talented programming team, across multiple varied and challenging projects, is a [...]
None If you haven’t checked out the Syndicate four-player demo on Xbox Live and PSN, you should really hop on and download it as soon as you can. It’s a fairly intense run through this futuristic shooter. In the meantime, we’ve got video footage from another later level in the game. Take a look at [...]
None Hopefully you’ve downloaded the recently released Syndicate four-player co-op demo on Xbox Live and PSN. In case you haven’t, we previewed the map a few weeks ago, and have just posted another video featuring more co-op gameplay. If you want to see how the game ratchets up the difficulty in the later stages, here’s a look [...]
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