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Sony’s alleged reduction to PS Vita’s RAM capacity won’t harm developers working with the system, a Sony studio partner has said. Dani Snchez-Crespo, the CEO of PSP games studio Novarama, told Develop that the upcoming PS Vita handheld will have a whole lot of headroom in terms of GPU power, …
Read More »Ten publishers dominate iPhone top 300
More than half of the money made from the top 300 iPhone games is channelled to just ten publishers, new data suggests. Mobile analytics group Distimo suggests that Apple’s booming games platform no longer helps smaller studios compete on an even playing field with the more established mobile publishers such …
Read More »OPINION: An early Nintendo price cut? These are crazy times
I don’t think anyone saw this coming. And if they say they did, they’re either really clever or a liar. This morning Nintendo announced that it is cutting the price of the 3DS handheld by a third. That should see it retailing for something in the region of 130 in …
Read More »Mario 3DS titles renamed, dated
Nintendo had confirmed new names and release dates for the 3DS’ two flagship Mario titles. Traditional platformer Super Mario will now be known as Super Mario 3D Land and will land on UK shelves in November. The new title harks back to the original Super Mario Land series on Game …
Read More »Rising Star to publish Caves DoDonPachi in the UK
Daring indie publisher Rising Star Games has announced that it is to publish a second Cave shooter in Europe – DoDonPachi Resurrection. It follows on from the release of Deathsmiles on Xbox 360 last year. DoDonPachi Resurrection is already available in Europe on iPhone (as is Deathsmiles), but this is …
Read More »GMA Hall of Fame: Martin Robinson
MCV talks to the previous winners of a Games Media Award. This week, it’s Eurogamer’s Martin Robinson. How did it feel to win a Games Media Award last year? Surprising, to be honest. I wasn’t expecting it, so was more than a little humbled by the whole thing. What do …
Read More »Nintendo reports Q1 loss and cuts full-year profit expectation 82%
A slow start for the launch of the 3DS has bitten Nintendo hard. In its Q1 financials fro the period ending June 20th, the firm reported an operating loss of 7.7bn YEN ($483.6 million) and cut its annual profit forecast by 82 per cent from 175bn YEN to 37.7bn YEN. …
Read More »THQ reports disappointing Q1, abandons Red Faction
Just a year ago Red Faction was being touted as THQ’s golden child. It had a TV series on SyFy, it had a brand new game that hoped to build on the success of the impressive Red Faction: Guerrilla. But how quickly things change. Last night THQ reported a disappointing …
Read More »PS vita RAM cut won’t hurt studios – Novarama
'The first PSP had 32 MG of RAM and we have about ten times that now', says studio boss
Read More »PS3 hardware sales down year-on-year
Sony sold 1.8m PS3 consoles in the quarter ending June 30th 2011. That’s around 600,000 fewer units than it sold in the same quarter last year. It’s a disappointing result for a machine that has shown such momentum in the last two years and looks set for a fantastic 2011, …
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