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Martin Good, executive VP of THQ’s kids, family and casual games label, isn’t shaken by Nintendo’s newly announced Wii U. The uDraw series hasn’t been around for a whole year yet, but the capabilities and functions of the Wii U controller could displace THQ’s purpose-built tablet if Nintendo was to …
Read More »Remedy recoups iPhone dev costs in 3 days
E3 2011: Alan Wake studio outlines financially successful first iOS excursion
Read More »VERDICT: E3 2011
New hardware, new games, flashing lights, corporate big knobs and lots of excited yet excruciatingly tired journalists. It’s E3 as we know it and 2011 ticked all of the boxes. But now that the curtains are being drawn on this year’s event, what impression has been left? To my mind …
Read More »Microsoft: All our game studios should use Kinect
Some Kinect features 'make everything better in games', says Phil Spencer
Read More »‘854×480 resolution for Wii U controller’
The gamepad screen at the heart of the Wii U experience displays at a 854×480 resolution, according to new research and estimates. Entertainment site Golgotron claims the Wii U controller screen displays at the wide-VGA display standard. The factual basis to this claim is debatable. The resolution size was estimated …
Read More »Record traffic for PS Home
Sony’s PlayStation Home has reached all-time high user activity levels since PSN was switched back on. The PS3’s in-game social world has just reached a new milestone in terms of its amount of weekly unique users, Gamasutra reports. We’re having record traffic in Home,” said SCEA’s director for PlayStation Home …
Read More »Saints Row 3 due November
Saints Row: The Third will be released in November on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, developer Volition has confirmed. The sandbox gangster game and GTA rival will arrive in the US on November 15th and three days later in the UK on November 18th. Volition’s senior producer Greg Donovan told …
Read More »Bobby Kotick ‘considering MySpace buyout’
Games publishing boss considers small interest in Facebook rival, sources claim
Read More »Dev criticises Call of Duty strategy
One indie developer has lashed out both at Activision’s decision to charge a fee for Call of Duty Elite and its failure, in his opinion, to evolve the franchise. "I don’t agree with it," Zombie Studios’ lead designer Jared Gerritzen told Gamasutra of the Call of Duty Elite service. "Right …
Read More »Wii U limited to one controller
With Nintendo’s Wii U still in the early stages of development every aspect is still open to change, but for the time being at least it looks as if each Wii U will only be able to use one new touch-screen controller. "Our basic premise is that you can use …
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