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EA and Bigpoint have announced a ‘strategic relationship’ to distribute certain titles from within EA’s Play4Free online platform. The first EA title that will be featured on the Bigpoint network will be Lord of Ultima this March. "I believe that the gaming industry is starting to fully appreciate the shift …
Read More »Porting games to netbooks: Plain sailing?
Dietrich Banschbach, director of EMEA SSG Scale Influence at Intel, offers some advice on making the process as smooth as possibleâ?¦
Read More »GDC11: Sony building dev-friendly Home update
New package allows for real-time multiplayer, enhanced physics, more tools
Read More »GDC11: UE3 DX11 capabilities unveiled
DirectX 11 support in the Unreal Engine 3 to be shown at California conference
Read More »Euro digital market to reach 3.3bn by 2015?
Research firm DFC Intelligence estimates that the European market for digital game content is expected to grow to €3.3 billion in the next five years. The company will be presenting more details on this and other findings from a new report – Monetizing the European Market for Virtual Currency – …
Read More »GDC11: EA and Bigpoint reveal partnership
Play4Free titles to garner new exposure with distribution deal
Read More »No Online Pass for Crysis 2
Upcoming EA release Crysis 2 will break with the publisher’s recent tradition and not require a user to input an Online Pass code to access key features. GamertagRadio reports that developer Crytek itself, which as a member of the EA Partners program was free to decide for itself, made the …
Read More »PROFILE: Future Publishing
FUTURE’S ABC RESULTS Official Xbox Magazine2010: 60,8592009: 60,834Official PlayStation Magazine2010: 46,0122009: 47,033 Official Nintendo Magazine2010: 45,0152009: 51,271 Edge2010: 28,0512009:29,007 GamesMaster2010: 28,0032009: 34,313 PC Gamer2010: 25,0192009: 26,487 Xbox World 3602010: 23,0612009: 25,874 PSM32010: 20,6402009: 21,224Your ABC results were mostly down. Was that really surprising?Not really. Print is still amazingly important to …
Read More »PROFILE: IGN
IGN may be the old dog of the internet, but it still has plenty of new tricks up its sleeves. As one of the longest-running games websites, it has developed a colossal audience and continues to find new ways to interact with them, such as First Look events and My …
Read More »PROFILE: Imagine Publishing
IMAGINE’S ABC RESULTS X360 2010: 24,090July – Dec 2009: 26,532January – June 2009: 26,092 Play 2010: 21,7352009: 24,062 GamesTM 2010: 18,0242009: 20,013 3602010: 11,1832009: 14,116 Cross-portfolio initiativesHelen Laidlaw – Deputy Editor, How It WorksIt’s exciting that Imagine can make the most of our huge gaming audience and expand on it by targeting …
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