Monthly Archives: June 2010

Update: TIGA has issued a statement condemning the Government for its decision in today’s budget, calling it a “broken pre-election promise”.

It’s a bit lengthy, and below the original report.

Original: UK Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that tax relief promised to the UK games industry by the previous Labour government will no longer go ahead.

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3DS could be set for a December launch, in a move to emulate that of the Wii.

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Game has reduced the price of the Xbox 360 Elite to £149.99, ahead of the launch of the new 250Gb Xbox 360 model which arrives next month.

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David Jaffe has said that the graphics of his new Twisted Metal game will improve, though they will never reach the level of Killzone 3 or Uncharted 2.

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Eat, Sleep, Play boss David Jaffe has said it’s his games, not his words, that he wants people to believe, following a spate of lying about the identity of his current project in the run-in to E3.

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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that only 30 percent of the company’s profits come from console games.

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Speaking to VG247 at E3, Nintendo Europe marketing boss Laurent Fischer has said the firm won’t bow to pressure to cut Wii’s price this year.

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Two new E3 videos have popped up for Portal 2, giving a brief overview of both story and gameplay.

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Financial guru Michael Pachter has said in the latest episode of his Gametrailers show Pach Attack, that Microsoft’s Kinect is a limited device, although he also thinks that it could sell like crazy if the price is right.

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Laurent Fischer, Nintendo Europe’s MD of marketing, had a good E3. 3DS was the talk of the show and Nintendo’s press conference couldn’t have gone better. He was in a chipper mood, then, when we caught up with him in LA last week to ask him when we can expect a price point for 3DS, how Nintendo feels about Sony and Microsoft’s “rush to motion” and whether or not we’re going to see any price-cutting from Nintendo this year.

Hit it, innit.

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Activision has certainly had its fair share of controversy over the past year – what with the Infinity Ward staffing debacle, higher than standard-priced games and expensive map packs – so it comes as no surprise to hear that the company wants to improve its image.

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Capcom production boss Keiji Inafune has said that Dead Rising 2′s difficulty curve will be improved over the first game, but that you’re still going to need to lean on friends to get through the tough bits.

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Resident Evil: Revelations has received its first trailer for 3DS. It’s like nothing seen before on a Nintendo handheld.

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Seems as though everyone thinks Kinect’s going to cost $150. Including Microsoft.

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Assassin’s Creed 1 and 2 felt ages apart in more ways than one. Most obviously, they took place in wildly different time periods – AC 1 during the Third Crusade and AC2 in Renaissance Italy. The gap between the two games’ releases, however – especially for an industry that has reduced the yearly sequel down to a science – was also quite wide.

Not so for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The latest sequel, which crept up and pressed a blade against our throats long before we expected it, is slated for release in November 2010. It once again stars gaming’s suavest acrobat, Ezio. But this time around, top billing doesn’t go to Ezio alone. In Brotherhood, he’ll be fighting alongside a highly coordinated team of assassins like himself, which – after the largely solo outings of previous Assassin’s Creed titles – raises all kinds of questions.

So we decided to ask them. Click past the break for technical director Mathieu Gagnon’s thoughts on why Brotherhood isn’t just a spin-off, Assassin’s Creed III, multiplayer, Assassin’s Creed II’s slow start, and tons more.

[Interview by Nathan Grayson]

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Fool us once, Mr. Jaffe, shame on you. Fool us twice, Mr. Jaffe, shame on us. Fool us, like, 14 or 15 times, Mr. Jaffe, and we’re not even sure who to blame anymore.

Can we just say Sony and be done with it?

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3D? On a handheld? Without glasses? Preposterous! That sounds like something straight out of the far-flung future.

According to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, however, the future is a little less than a year off for “all major territories” – not just Japan. Guess we need to start jetpack-proofing our collection of ugly jumpsuits.

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Final Fantasy XIV producer Hiromichi Tanaka has said that Square Enix currently has “no plans” for an Xbox 360 version of his game, although he did admit that the company is “still in talks with Microsoft”.

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Japanese technology firm Digital Media Professionals has confirmed it’s the provider of the new graphics chip for the Nintendo 3DS.

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Samantha Ryan, senior VP of production and development at Warner Bros, has said the company is starting to slow down on acquiring new and existing IP’s.

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