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Battlefield 4 was unveiled today, as promised by EA, via an impressive 17-minute trailer showcasing the game’s single-player campaign. Powered by DICE’s next-generation Frostbite 3 engine, the game looks stunning as you would expect and it’s interesting that EA chose to reveal the game via the campaign, when the multiplayer …
Read More »GDC 13: Zeptolab on quality over quantity in mobile
Cut The Rope developer focusing on limited number of titles rather than ten-to-20 a year
Read More »Rising dev costs concern as 3.4m Tomb Raider sales are not enough
Ever-increasing development budgets rear ugly head in latest Square Enix financials
Read More »Global ad spend grew in 2012
After the disastrous collapse of 2009, global advertising revenue is again on the rise. That’s according to Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online service, which found that the 9.6 per cent drop suffer in 2009 in the aftermath of the global banking meltdown has been partially reversed thanks to a 3.3 …
Read More »SoftBank to acquire majority stake in GungHo
Japanese telco SoftBank has announced its attention to significantly increase its stake in mobile gaming site GungHo. The company plans to spend 25bn ($265m) on over 73,000 shares, taking its overall share ownership from 33.6 per cent to 58.5 per cent. It will acquire the shares from Asian Groove, a …
Read More »SoftBank fronts $250m for mobile dev GungHo
Telecomms giant increases stake in company by 20 per cent to 58.5 per cent
Read More »GAME customers name 1996 as gaming’s ‘golden’ year; Names Wii as best ever console
1996 has been named as video gaming’s ‘golden year’ by a survey of 2,000 GAME customers. Big hits released that year included Resident Evil, Super Mario 64, Tekken 2, Crash Bandicoot, FIFA 96 (which was the first in the series to use real-life licenses) and the mighty Tomb Raider. 2002 …
Read More »Tomb Raider misses sales targets; Rogers in contention for board election
Square Enix’s big console releases are not performing as desired in the West. As part of the publisher’s latest financial report, the company described sales of Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs as weak” in both North America and Europe. Specifically, Tomb Raider has shifted 3.4m copies in three …
Read More »FISH: Sure, you can have Fez on Wii U… if Nintendo pays for it
A Wii U release for cult indie platformer Fez is not an impossibility… although comments from creator Phil Fish certainly render it an improbability. The only way a Fez Wii U port could happen is if Nintendo paid for and handled the port themselves,” he wrote on Twitter. Which I …
Read More »UBISOFT: Rayman Legends remains a Wii U system seller despite multiformat release
The release of Rayman Legends on Xbox 360 and PS3 has not stopped the game being a Wii U system seller, Ubisoft has argued. The publisher revealed last month that the SKU version – which was originally pencilled in as an exclusive Wii U launch title – had been delayed …
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