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Xbox 8, or perhaps Xbox ∞ (Xbox Infinity) could be the name of the successor to Xbox 360. The speculation has arisen after Fusible reported that Microsoft had acquired two URLs – Xbox8.us and Xbox8.org. Not only has it acquired them, but it fought to do so, winning two disputes …
Read More »Frogster becomes Gameforge Berlin
The shareholders of Frogster Interactive pictures have voted to change the names of its three subsidiaries. Frogster Interactive Pictures AG will change its name to Gameforge Berlin AG. Frogster Online Gaming, which handles the company’s European operations, is to be fully integrated into Gameforge Berlin. In addition, two other operations …
Read More »Fall of Cybertron dev working on Marvel tie-in
The developer behind Activision’s War for Cybertron and the upcoming Fall of Cybertron seems to be on the cusp of revealing a new Marvel-based property. GameSpot reports that the schedule for Comic-Con 2012 says that Activision and High Moon Studios will make an announcement during a panel entitled Marvel Video …
Read More »When Riccitiello said Battlefield players could pay $1 per reload
Free-to-play is not necessarily a dangerous monster stalking the innocent gamer.But at times it feels like it could be. Digging through the transcript of a 2011 stockholder meeting, Xbox360Achievements discovered the following comments from EA CEO John Riccitiello: When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out …
Read More »PS4 production almost two years down the line
The CV of SCEA’s former R&D director Attila Vass has suggested that work began on the next generation PlayStation” in August 2010. Videogamer.com dug up the LinkedIn profile of Vass, who was employed by Sony America until April of this year. "In 1998 I started as the first engineer in …
Read More »EA has a "clear line of sight" on being a 100% digital company
A digital-only games industry may yet still be a little way off, but retail bosses will take no solace from the giddy excitement with which EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau speaks of the company’s digital future. "It’s in the near future. It’s coming. We have a clear line of sight …
Read More »EA says NPD stats "totally irrelevant"; NPD defends itself
It’s an irrelevant measure on the industry. It’s totally irrelevant. We don’t even really look at it internally anymore.” Those are the thoughts of EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau, who claims that the current perception of a games industry in trouble is mistaken. "I think one of the problems with …
Read More »NPD: $3.4bn spent in US during Q1 2012, nearly half via digital
Telling signs of the consumer shift to digital in the US have arrived courtesy of NPD’s latest report. The report covers Q1 2012, with over $3.4bn spent on gaming for the period. Out of that total $1.38bn, just over 40 per cent, was linked to digital purchases across all platforms. …
Read More »NPD: Europe’s Q1 used, digital and social market worth £798m
The combined sales of the used, rental, digital and social games markets was worth 798m across the UK, France and Germany, says a new NPD report. The combined sales of used and rental games content totalled 191.5m. Meanwhile, digital sales, which included full games, add-on content, subscriptions, mobile and social …
Read More »Blitz Games Studios expands into mobile
'It's clear that the future of gaming lies in embracing a wider variety of inter-connected platforms', says Philip Oliver
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