Monthly Archives: August 2011

Recently promoted EA COO Peter Moore has said EA doesn’t care about coming “second” to Activision in the big shooter-off, but does plan to carve away at Call of Duty’s market share.

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Newly incumbent EA Labels chief Frank Gibeau says the publisher has more than one classic revival in the works.

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Analysts have predicted an upswing for the Australian games industry, which has seen depressing shrinkage over the last few years.

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The next best thing to being at gamescom: Watching a direct-feed video of what players experienced in the Assassin’s Creed: revelations single player demo.

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Driver: San Francisco’s unusual mechanics and “it was all a dream” plot were inspired in part by Google Earth.

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Atari continues its transition from old school to new school, rearranging management to cope with a new company direction.

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Pat flew home from Germany today. Johnny and Alex leave tomorrow. This doesn’t mean we won’t have more gamescom news for you though, there will be plenty over the coming days. Promise.

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In the rush to cover all the major new trailers out of gamescom, plenty of treasures go overlooked. Come through and gaze in awe at Planetside 2; Crusader Kings II; World of Tanks; and Phineas and Ferb before you miss the bandwagon.

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EA has announced The Sims Social as gone live after a public beta period, and already after only a week, the game has 4,859,046 monthly average users.

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Activision and Infinity Ward were on hand at gamescom this week showing off the Spec Ops Survival mode in Modern Warfare 3.

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Konami has confirmed Castlevania: Harmony of Despair will arrive on PSN in September. The PS3 version comes with local multiplayer for up to four players, as well as the maps Beauty, Desire, Situation Dire with the downloadable characters Julius and Yoko. Better late than never.

Earlier today, there were some unverified reports circulating that Steam was providing refunds to those who purchased From Dust via the service, due to the inclusion of Ubisoft’s always-on DRM. Now, it looks as though over the course of the day, more reports have surfaced claiming the same thing, not to mention an entire shitstorm ensuing on the matter. Get familiarized with it below.

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Namco Bandai has released a ton of shots and some character renders for Tekken 3D Prime Edition, its 3DS adaptation its fighting series. Get acquainted with all 52 below. Still no date.

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Konami showed off Silent Hill: Book of Memories at gamescom this week, and has sent along shots of the title for those who didn’t attend. The game is set for release on Vita, and is the first multiplayer Silent Hill title ever. This cooperative mode lets players explore the Otherworlds together, which includes limited resources and a dark atmosphere. The story follows a mysterious book, which includes all of the player’s memory – and this content can be altered too, apparently. Silent Hill: Book of Memories is slated for release in early 2012.

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Warner has released new gamescom screenshots for its Kinect title, Once Upon a Monster, in development from Double Fine. The Sesame Street-themed game is slated for release this fall on Xbox 360. Check out the shots in the gallery below, along with a few character renders. A few are not so new, but are still worth another look.

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Sony has anew model out called PSP E-1000, which will run folks in Europe €99. It doesn’t have built-in Wi-Fi, has a matte finish, and according to Kotaku, which fiddled it and took pictures, it is a big larger but lighter. It also sports a single, touch-sensitive strip instead of below-screen buttons. head on through the link and take a look-see for yourself.

The Call of Duty Zombie Labs has identified you as a genuine authority on the art and science of killing zombies, and feels its recent research will prove invaluable to you. It has recently identified a rogue zombie population on the Moon – a horrific population of the angriest undead it’s seen yet. Therefore, it has begun battle preparation for Lunar Deployment.

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Mojang’s announced its first third-party title Cobalt, developed by Oxeye Game Studios today.

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Xbox Live marketing manager for EMEA Robin Burrowes has reiterated that since last January, the service has grown by five million users due in part to the addition of new regions added to the service last fall.

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GameStop has reported a 3.1 percent drop in sales to $1.74 billion during its second quarter. Profit came in at under $10 million from $40.3 million to $30.9 million for the quarter. The firm attributed the sales decline to slow hardware sales and a lack of new software releases compared to July 2010.

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