Monthly Archives: February 2010
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 22:54 GMT
Acti-Blizz full-year financials 2009: Starcraft II to be downloadable from Battle.net
Acti-Blizz has just confirmed Starcraft II will be downloadable at launch from Battle.net 2.0 when it releases this year.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 21:16 GMT
“Graphic violence was necessary” in AvP, says Rebellion
Rebellion’s Dave Brickely has said in an interview that the violence contained in Aliens vs Predator was “necessary”.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 20:26 GMT
Bejeweled is 10, has sold 50 million units
PopCap has announced that it will mark the 10th birthday of Bejeweled with a 10-month long celebration beginning today.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 20:05 GMT
GDC Austin renamed and set for October
Think Services has announced that GDC Austin will from here on out be officially known as GDC Online, since that’s the event’s main focus – online games.
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Posted in: GDC Austin 2010, GDC Online 2010, Hot
Tags: gdc 2008, GDC Online
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 20:07 GMT
EA: Dead Space 2 PC “under consideration”
Despite the fact Dead Space 2′s PC SKU was left off EA’s FY ’11 schedule earlier this week, with a rep admitting the version was “not on the plan” last night, mouse-based horror fans shouldn’t lose heart: the publisher’s just told us it’s “under consideration”.
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Posted in: Action, EA, Horror, Hot, PC
Tags: dead space 2, visceral games
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 19:34 GMT
Upcoming Champions Online expansion gets name change, becomes free
Cryptic has been listening to complaints from its community, and has decided to make the new expansion announced last month a freebie upon release.
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Posted in: Atari, MMO, PC
Tags: champions online, cryptic, revelations, Vibora Bay
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 19:11 GMT
EA to publish fewer third-party titles in the future
EA has revealed that it’s to rely less on third-party titles in the future and will instead shift its focus on publishing internal projects.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, Retail, Trade
Tags: ea q3 financials, John Schappert
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 18:19 GMT
RE5 Gold gets Rebecca and Barry for Mercenaries Reunion
The final two Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition characters for the Mercenaries Reunion were announced today via Famitsu.
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Posted in: Action, Capcom, Hot, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: barry burton, re5, rebecca chambers, resident evil 5, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 18:24 GMT
“Study”: Kids that play FPS games are less empathetic
Supernanny Jo Frost’s new show in the UK, Extreme Parental Guidance, will have its debut episode focusing on children and violent videogames.
To help her along, Frost solicited Iowa State University’s Dr. Douglas Gentile to conduct a study with her on 40 boys and the after effects of playing a FPS.
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Posted in: Hot, Shooter, UK, Violence in games
Tags: Douglas Gentile, facepalm, jo frost, study
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 17:04 GMT
BioShock has “many stories” that can be told, says 2K
BioShock 2′s Michael Kamper has said that due to the uniqueness of Rapture, there are “many stories” that 2K could tell within the game’s universe.
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Posted in: 2K, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: 2k marin, bioshock 2, Michael Kamper
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 19:30 GMT
Heavy Rain reviews go live, set phasers to stun
The embargo for reviews of Heavy Rain is gone, with impressions and scores starting to come in.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, Journalism, PS3, Sony
Tags: heavy rain, quantic dream
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 16:52 GMT
Analyst predicts industry growth of 6% in 2010 thanks to digital sales
Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson has predicted that packaged games will maintain flatness in 2010 while the industry as a whole will show growth of 6 percent.
Wilson claims this is partly due to a 34 percent surge in digital sales.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Nintendo, PC, PS3, Retail, Trade, Wii, Xbox 360, hardware
Tags: anaylst, digital distribution, Pacific Crest Securities
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 16:02 GMT
PAX East to have Wesley Crusher as first keynote
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Posted in: America, Hot, PAX East 2010
Tags: star trek, wesely crusher, wil wheaton
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 15:43 GMT
Level 5 working on unannounced PS3, Wii titles
Level 5 has said in a speech welcoming potential recruits to the studio that the developer is working on unannounced PS3 and Wii titles.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 15:35 GMT
Aion helps NCsoft achieve $61.6 million profit for Q3
NCsoft has released its financial report for Q3 ending on December 31 and it proves that business is good for the MMO publisher.
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Posted in: Financials, Hot, MMO, NCSoft, PC
Tags: aion, ncsoft q3 financials 2009
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 | 17:25 GMT
Red Dead Redemption pre-order incentives for US and UK
Pre-order deals are coming out of the woodwork for Red Dead Redemption, and we have ‘em listed for you below.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 14:16 GMT
Win a BioShock 2 Collector’s Edition and an “Eve hypo”
Been a while since we did one of these, so let’s relive the good times. Whoever posts the 1,000th comment on this article wins a BioShock 2 Special Edition for 360 and the following, as relayed by the lovely PR setting this up: “Eve hypo, water bottle, hoodie, vinyl record.”
Would you kindly make it quick?
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Posted in: Action, Hot, Shooter, Take-Two, Xbox 360
Tags: bioshock 2, collector's edition
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 14:04 GMT
Rockstar shows off massive Red Dead Redemption art in New York
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360
Tags: Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar San Diego
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 14:03 GMT
EA to reward players for completing matches in FIFA 11
EA’s Simon Humbler has told Eurogamer that the FIFA 11 development team is looking at ways to punish online game-quitters in the series’s next release.
Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 13:03 GMT
Famitsu gives Heavy Rain 37/40 ahead of today’s review deluge
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Sony
Tags: famitsu, heavy rain, quantic dream
Ace Attorney 5 in the works, original trilogy getting HD brush up