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Puzzle & Dragons creator GungHo saw operating profit climb 4,331.2 per cent per cent year-on-year for the six months ending June 2013. Serkantoto.com reports that operating profit totalled $460m for the period. Sales climbed 945.5 per cent to $763 with net income growing 2,609.2 per cent to $287m. For the …
Read More »Sony and Panasonic reveal Blu-ray successor plans
A 300GB successor to the Blu-ray standard has been revealed by Sony and Panasonic. The BBC reports that the format is intended to be in place by 2015 and is being designed with an eye on the new 4K Ultra High Resolution standard. Movies made to this spec will likely …
Read More »Microsoft indie plans get Notch’s blessing
Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has endorsed Microsoft’s recently announced plan to make every Xbox One work as a dev kit. These plans were revealed by Microsoft earlier this month as part of its dramatic indie U-turn. "I think it’s a wonderful idea to have the actual box be the …
Read More »UPDATED: Saints Row IV refused Australian classification for a second time
Deep Silver’s Saints Row IV has once again been blocked from release in Australia. A three-member panel of the Classification Review Board has unanimously determined that the computer game Saints Row IV is classified Refused Classification,” a new statement from the Australian Classification Board confirmed. In the Review Board’s opinion, …
Read More »Clustered we stand, divided we fall
Tiga's Richard Wilson on how promoting game clusters can provide a boost to promising start-ups
Read More »Star Wars Episode VII: Shadow of the Sith was an actual thing
A host of former LucasArts game projects have been named in a book chronicling the history of LucasArts. Although published in 2008, a list of 20 potential game logos available in Chronicle Books’ Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts was thrust online recently by AllGamesBeta. You can see all the …
Read More »Notch gives Xbox indie plans thumbs up
Minecraft creator gives nod to plan to make every console a dev-kit
Read More »Official Xbox One controller and headset prices revealed
The US Official Microsoft Store has revealed the pre-order prices for the first Xbox One accessories. The Xbox One controller is priced at $59.99. That’s around 40 in real money, although of course the price is unlikely to translate in this way – expect perhaps a 50 price tag in …
Read More »GungHo averages $4.9 million a day
Puzzle & Dragons developer sees nearly 1,000 per cent growth in first half of the year
Read More »The Crew boasts "widest variety of car types ever seen in a driving game"
The Crew will offer the widest variety of car types ever seen in a driving game, the game’s community developer Soufyane Brahimi has said. While Ubisoft has yet to reveal a list of cars that will make it into the game, Brahimi says that there’s something there for every taste. …
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