Monthly Archives: November 2010
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 09:41 GMT
Disney games division drops $236 million in 2010
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Posted in: Disney, Financials
Tags: disney full-year financials 2010
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 09:16 GMT
IGF 2011 entrant Octodad has the best premise of all time
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Life’s all about push and pull – a constant tug-of-war match between opposing forces.
There is, of course, no example more universal than that of the upper middle-class father who’s secretly an octopus.
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 09:15 GMT
Zelnick: Criticising used game sales is “irrelevant”
Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets 18th Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York yesterday, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said that moaning about the used games market is pointless: you beat secondhand sales with quality, apparently.
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Posted in: PC, PS3, Retail, Take-Two, Xbox 360
Tags: secondhand, Strauss Zelnick, used
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 08:41 GMT
Alice to cost $15 million, Spicy Horse to double size in next 18 months
Spicy Horse boss American McGee said today the China-based developer will expand from 80 to 160 staff in the next year-and-a-half.
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Posted in: Action, China, EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: Alice: Madness Returns, spicy horse
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 08:07 GMT
Call of Duty DLC to be Acti’s “largest line”
Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets 18th Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York yesterday, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg promised big things for upcoming Call of Duty DLC.
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Posted in: Action, Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: call of duty, Call of Duty: Black Ops, sledgehammer, treyarch
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 07:56 GMT
Hacker adds multi-touch functionality to Kinect on PC
Bet you were wondering at the point behind hacking Kinect for use on PC. Try this for a start.
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 07:47 GMT
Activision: Next Bungie game heading to PC, consoles and “online”
A slide from Activision’s presentation at the BMO Capital Markets 18th Annual Digital Entertainment Conference may have confirmed Bungie’s next “universe” is not just be a console affair.
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 06:50 GMT
Black Ops’ first PC patch targets “performance improvement”
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Posted in: Action, Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, Shooter
Tags: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops, cod, treyarch
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 06:43 GMT
Facebook’s Civilization Network slated for 2011 launch
Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick’s confirmed that Civilization’s previously announced Facebook effort, Civilization Network, will release next year.
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 14:21 GMT
MS: Average Gold subs use Live for 3 hours per day
Microsoft said at the BMO Capital Markets Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York yesterday that Xbox live Gold subs use the service for an average of three hours per day.
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Posted in: Hot, Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: BMO Capital Markets Annual Digital Entertainment Conference, Dennis Durkin
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 06:27 GMT
Report: Kinect costs $56 to make
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Posted in: Hot, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: Allan Yogasingam, UBM TechInsights
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 03:56 GMT
Tim Schafer on Psychonauts 2: “I’m ready to do it”
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Posted in: EA, Hot, Platformer, THQ
Tags: double fine, psychonauts, Tim Schafer
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 01:09 GMT
“Players had a very high expectation” of FFXIV, says Tanaka
Hiromichi Tanaka, SVP of software development at Square Enix, has said the company is doing everything it can to bring Final Fantasy XIV “back to the level” it planned to have ready for players of the MMO right from the start.
The latest patch is just a start.
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Posted in: MMO, PC, PS3, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: FFXIV, Hiromichi Tanaka
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 00:55 GMT
Analyst firm projects online market in Asia to reach $1.7 billion by 2014
Niko Partners has estimated, thanks to a recent study, that the South East Asian online market is will be worth $917 million by the end of the year, and worth $1.7 billion by 2014.
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Posted in: Asia, Retail, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Trade
Tags: Indonesia, Niko Partners, online market, the Philippines, vietnam
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | 16:53 GMT
The Last Story will have six-player online play
Mistwalker has included six-player online with co-op and competitive modes in The Last Story, according to the latest issue of Shonen Jump.
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Posted in: RPG, Wii
Tags: mistwalker, the last story
Thu, Nov 11, 2010 | 23:49 GMT
Bejeweled 3 up for pre-order on Steam
Steam is now accepting pre-orders for Bejeweled 3, and if you own Steam versions of Bejeweled Deluxe, Bejeweled 2 Deluxe or Bejeweled Twist, you’ll get 20 percent off the purchase price the game.
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | 00:26 GMT
Latest LBP2 video stars the Grabinator
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Posted in: PS3, Platformer, Sony
Tags: LBP, lbp2, littlebigplanet, littlebigplanet 2, media molecule
Wed, Dec 08, 2010 | 15:23 GMT
PS3 version of Two Worlds II has the developer “hopping mad”
Two Worlds on PS3 has apparently missed its pressing deadline, with only the PC and Xbox 360 versions being ready for release. Suffice to say, the European publisher TopWare/Zuxxez is “hopping mad”, and it’s blaming Sony for the delay.
Thu, Nov 11, 2010 | 22:52 GMT
Report: Black Ops on PC suffers lag, other issues
Players of Black Ops on PC have reported some performance issues while playing the game, most notably lag, freezing, and some stuttering.
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Posted in: Action, Activision Blizzard, PC, Shooter
Tags: Black Ops, call of duty, David Vonderhaar, lag, treyarch
2K Marin staff working on second major project