Consoles

Alleged Telltale Games staff member opens extraordinary criticisms on forum

Nintendo has become the latest video games company to suffer significant year-on-year declines, with net profits down 60.6 per cent in Q1 2009-2010 to YEN 42 billion, compared to YEN 107 billion in the same period a year before. The firm this morning reported operating profits of YEN 40bn for …

Ubisoft has seen Q1 revenue generated by DS titles fall by a huge 67 per cent in the last year. CEO Yves Guillemot reveled the news in the publisher’s Q1 fiscal results announced yesterday. Ubisoft’s share of the DS software market has remained exactly the same, however – suggesting that …

David Perry has revealed he is eager to see the cloud-computing service Gaikai available on consoles, and thinks Nintendo would benefit from the service in particular. In a Develop Blog Post – which looks at the genesis of the Gaikai model – the Perry explained, What I would love to …

Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort has hit top spot in the ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 in its debut week. The title, which comes bundled with the Wii MotionPlus accessory, clocks up the fourth-highest week one sales for a Wii game, behind Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Mario & Sonic …

It’s time to dispel the notion that the rise to prominence of digital distribution is still several years off – a rare set of concrete sales numbers for EA’s recently released WWII shooter Battlefield 1943 show that digital retail is already here in a very big way.

 DICE’s title, which …

Speaking at the CGA’s ongoing Casual Connect event in Seattle, Nintendo of America’s senior director of product development Tom Prata has predicted that despite the recent boom in the target audience of the console game market the sector could still be set for 50 per cent more growth in the …

Whilst ambitious tech projects OnLive and Dave Perry’s Gaikai have been jostling for a share of the headlines, a little-known Israeli company called Playcast has beaten both to the punch by launching a streaming games service in its home country.

 Launched in conjunction with cable provider Hot, the pilot service …

All musicians given chance to take tracks to Rock Band, submissions to go through XNA 



Mirroring the incident that saw a staff writer inflict pain upon a colleague when Nintendo’s Wii first arrived at the Intent office, American pop star Christina Aguilera has reportedly suffered an injury whilst playing popular multiplayer romp Wii Sports.

 GameDaily reports that a source stated: Christina loves her Wii as …