Monthly Archives: April 2011
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 02:49 BST
Rumour: Square Enix publishing “Project X” with external studio
More LinkedIn detective work, this time outing an unannounced, Square Enix-published title.
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Posted in: Rumour, Square Enix
Tags: David Hoffman, Nobu Tanaka, Project X
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 02:31 BST
Rumour: FIFA 12 to release on NGP along with usual suspects
An EA employee’s LinkedIn profile suggests the publisher will support Sony’s NGP. In other news, the sky is blue.
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 01:44 BST
Reynolds: “You can’t just go write Call of Duty and add Facebook functionality”
Civilization veteran turned Zynga chief designer Brian Reynolds has said traditional developers approach social gaming in the wrong way, but that core platforms aren’t going away any time soon.
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Posted in: Casual, Zynga
Tags: Brian Reynolds
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 01:16 BST
Study: Inappropriate games may give children the wrong message
Children who lack positive parenting and good relationships with peers may take anti-social messages away from age-inappropriate games, according to a recent study.
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Posted in: Violence in games
Tags: kids, report, study
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 00:43 BST
Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg joins Zynga’s board of directors
One of Hollywood’s most well known movie producers is now joining the game publisher that’s pretty successful on its own with mainstream audiences. Zynga announced today that Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks Animation, has joined Zynga’s board of directors.
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Posted in: Casual, Zynga
Tags: dreamworks, facebook, jeffrey katzenberg
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 00:35 BST
Gibeau: “You’ve got to stick with” new IP
EA Games president Frank Gibeau has commented on the publisher’s decision to stand by new IP Dead Space rather than retreat to safer grounds, and said that it takes a few titles to really launch a new franchise.
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Posted in: Development, EA
Tags: dead space, dead space 2, frank gibeau
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 06:26 BST
Tretton: Japan earthquake may delay NGP in some regions
The massive earthquake that hit Japan a few weeks ago could result in shipment delays of electronics products made in that country. One of them may well be Sony’s next Playstation Portable console, codenamed NGP, according to Jack Tretton.
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Posted in: NGP, Sony
Tags: jack tretton, Wedbush Morgan Securities
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 10:09 BST
Playstation Network down for “sporadic maintenance”
Ask PlayStation, the official PlayStation Network support Twitter, has confirmed the online service for the Playstation 3 and PSP consoles is “currently undergoing sporadic maintenance.”
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 00:39 BST
Bigpoint brings in second CEO; current CEO to run US business unit
Free-to-play publisher BigPoint is spreading its wings by hiring a second CEO. Gamasutra reports that Heiko Hubertz, the current CEO, will now be leading the company’s US unit while Arthur Bastings, the former EMEA managing director of Discovery Networks, will be in charge of BigPoint’s Hamburg, Germany office.
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Posted in: MMO, PC, Platform holders
Tags: Arthur Bastings, bigpoint, Heiko Hubertz
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 00:37 BST
Machinarium developer releases free “interactive” music video Osada
The team that made the excellent 2009 indie adventure game Machinarium, Amanita Design, has just released the first of three planned projects. This one is totally free but is less of a game and more of a very weird but enjoyable interactive music video called Osada.
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Posted in: indie
Tags: Amanita Design, machinarium, Osada
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 21:15 BST
Bulletstorm PC demo finally released via Steam and GFWL
It’s been well over a month since Bulletstorm was released, but PC gamers still on the fence about buying the over-the-top sci-fi shooter you can finally get a free taste.
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Posted in: PC, Platform holders, Shooter
Tags: bulletstorm, bulletstorm pc demo, Epic Games, games for windows live, people can fly, steam
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 21:03 BST
D&D Daggerdale trailer shows skills of the Fighter
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale. Downloadable fantasy RPG. Out this spring. Developed by Bedlam. Published by Atari. All about the fighting.
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 20:51 BST
DICE: Most sandbox games are “boring” and “hard to get into”
Don’t expect DICE’s Battlefield 3 to be in a sandbox-style at all. Speaking to Edge, DICE executive producer producer Patrick Bach has said campaign-building is all about the straight and narrow.
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Posted in: Action, Development, EA, Shooter
Tags: battlefield 3, dice, digital illusions
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 20:42 BST
Final Fantasy V downloadable re-release coming to PS3 and PSP
Fans of the Final Fantasy series are soon to be able to get a re-release of one of the series’s earliest installments: Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy V is to be made available to PS3 and PSP owners via the Playstation Network.
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Posted in: NGP, PS3, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: Final Fantasy V, Square Enix
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 19:31 BST
Anno 2070 announced, takes series to the future
The long-running Anno series of simulation and strategy games is getting a new entry – and a new time period – thanks to publisher Ubisoft. The new title is Anno 2070. And yes, that does mean this game will be set nearly 60 years in the future.
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 18:21 BST
Battlefield Play4Free officially launches with new trailer
Battlefield Play4Free, the next game in Electronic Arts’ move into the free-to-play space, has now launched into open beta.
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Posted in: Action, EA, PC, Shooter
Tags: Battlefield Play4Free, Electronic Arts
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | 06:33 BST
Spider-Man: Edge of Time media swings into action
Newly-announced Spider-Man: Edge of Time got its first screenshots and trailer today, showing gameplay from this latest entry in the super hero action series.
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Posted in: Action, Activision Blizzard, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: Beenox, Spider-Man: Edge of Time
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 17:35 BST
World of Goo for iPhone finally coming soon, priced 99 cents for first day
The long awaited iPhone debut of World of Goo is finally coming to your flash drive. Developer 2D Boy posted up word on its blog that it’s sent the iPhone version of its hit arcade puzzle game to the iPhone App Store for approval and to “expect it to be out soonish”.
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 17:18 BST
Gamestop predicts $1.5 billion in digital game revenue by 2014
Retailer GameStop, who made two acquistions relating to digital game downloads last week, expects to see revenues from that sector of its business jump to a whopping $1.5 billion by 2014, via multiple platforms and devices.
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | 16:15 BST
Xbox 360 exec victim of hacker attack
An 360 business exec has found himself on the wrong end of a hacker who didn’t like being banned repeatedly from Xbox Live.
Quick Quotes: Paradox changing its Q&A process over Sword of the Stars 2′s “big failure”