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As of last night, Star Wars: The Old Republic no longer appears in EA’s release schedule. Earlier this year MCV revealed that EA was targeting a September 2011 release for the game. The story was greeted with disdain and abuse from a large contingent of BioWare’s fanbase in the MCV …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 delayed
EA has confirmed a delay for BioWare’s anticipated RPG release Mass Effect 3. Previously the game had been scheduled for a holiday 2011 release, but as part of its financial report last night EA confirmed that the game will now ship at some point in Q1 2012. Developer BioWare has …
Read More »Disney confirms redundancies at Black Rock
Further reports allege the Split/Second sequel has been cancelled
Read More »EA slashes losses with strong Q4
Publisher EA has reported an annual loss for its last financial year of $276m – that’s a 59 per cent improvement on the $677m lost in the year before. Revenue reached $3.59bn, which is slightly down on last year’s $3.65bn. However, Q4 was strong with revenues up over 400 per …
Read More »Direct2Drive hits Germany
Digital games retailer Direct2Drive has announced the launch of a German version of its popular portal. Found at www.direct2drive.de, the site is currently in beta though already boasts titles from the world’s largest publishers such as EA, Activision and Ubisoft. As a welcome gesture, the site will be offering customers …
Read More »UKIE sponsoring Dare to be Digital
UK games trade body UKIE has been confirmed as the sponsor of this year’s Dare to be Digital video games design competition. Run by University of Abertay, Dundee, the competition received some high-profile backing earlier this year when it was endorsed by the Livingstone-Hope skills review. UKIE is delighted to …
Read More »Mobile games claim half of all game downloads
Digital games downloads for mobile games devices now account for around half of all full game downloads. That’s according to a new report entitled Online Gaming 2011 from US stats body NPD. The figure does not include money spent on micro-transactions or game add-ons. Mobile gaming represents one of the …
Read More »Stringer’s position under threat
The positions of both chief executive SIr Howard Stringer and corporate executive officer and executive VP Kaz Hirai are under threat as a result of the ongoing PSN saga. That’s the opinion of two fund managers speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian. "The way Sony handled the whole thing goes …
Read More »FIFA makes users ‘more aggressive’ than COD
Call of Duty, Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto – these are the familiar names of killer games sewing their evil seeds in the minds of children across the nation. But little did we know that a far more dangerous threat has been lurking on our kids’ shelves for years in the …
Read More »Square Enix grabs Dead Island rights
It has been confirmed that Square Enix is to distribute Techland’s Dead Island in the US as part of a co-publishing agreement with publisher Deep Silver. Square Enix’s impressive distribution and marketing capabilities, combined with their proven success with launching top-notch AAA titles, makes them the absolute best partner for …
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