Game industry business news

The BBC has completed the roll out of iPlayer across all games consoles – with today’s launch of the service for Xbox 360. This means the BBC content service is now available on Wii, PS3 and 360. On 360, the app comes with Kinect-ready voice and gesture functions. It’s taken …

Multiple interested parties vie for Omgpop buyout, report claims

Farmville company wants to expand across platforms

World of Warcraft could yet be released on iOS, providing developer Blizzard can find a way of acceptably mapping the MMO’s controls onto touch screens You’ve got to put an interface, what do you do?” WoW senior producer John Lagrave told Eurogamer. Maybe we’ll stumble on the great way to …

The days of the triple-A blockbuster are over, for today the games industry worships a new goal – the quadruple-A title. Well, that’s if you listen to Microsoft, which in a recent job listing spotted by Gamefront used the term quadruple-A (or AAAA, to be precise) no less than three …

Customer says publisher has failed to meet promise of Online Pass support

Downsized studio considering options for mystery digital game

MCV has learnt that a number of retailers and suppliers are putting plans and finances in place to ensure they are ready to acquire potentially cut-price assets should GAME go into administration this week. If a deal is not struck by the weekend it is likely that GAME will be …

Having already attracted criticism for its online game server shutdowns in the past, EA has announced a new round of closures that will likely be the most controversial yet. Included in the list is EA Sports MMA which, notoriously, was the first game to include an Online Pass. This means, …

Valve’s console and PC title Portal 2 was the star performer at the GAME sponsored 2012 British Academy Video Games Awards. The game scooped three prizes in total – Best Story, Best Design and the coveted Best Game accolade. EA’s Battlefield 3 and Sony’s LittleBigPlanet 2 both won two awards, …