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Capcom has announced that Dead Rising: Case Zero has broken the record on Xbox Live for week one unit sales. The digital-only prologue to the upcoming Dead Rising 2 has seen more downloads since it launched last week than any other title posted on Microsoft’s online games service. Yesterday, Capcom …
Read More »Adobe shares rocket on Apple tool news
Flash developers edge ever closer to iOS freedom, and the city likes it
Read More »Apple lifts game App restrictions
Apple has extended an olive branch to its army of app developers by relaxing restrictions on how games are made. The mobile devices giant says it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” – on the proviso that the resulting apps do not download …
Read More »Need For Speed World tops 1m users
More than one million users are playing EA’s Need For Speed World. The online-only racer went live in late July and attracted racing fans with a new MMO-style take on the Need For Speed series. EA is celebrating the game’s accomplishment by opening its content to all players. As of …
Read More »Apple reverses dev tool lockout
The mobile devices giant will â??relax all restrictionsâ?? on dev tools to make game Apps
Read More »PopCap sees â??dot-com bustâ?? in the rise of social
â??Sense of panicâ?? from publishers trying to buy into a sector of ever-limiting space to grow, says experienced dev
Read More »Realtime Worlds on verge of buyout rescue
Announcement expected next week as sale is finalised; impact on jobs remains unclear
Read More »Multi-SKU strategy boosts FIFA brand
The flood of FIFA games released this year means FIFA 11 could attract the largest audience in the series’ history. In addition to strong sales of FIFA 10, the brand has benefited from the release of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, Facebook game FIFA Superstars and the PC-only FIFA Online. …
Read More »MS spends more on Reach than Halo 3
Forget Call of Duty or FIFA – Halo: Reach could be this year’s biggest video game. And to help it along its way, Microsoft is putting more of its marketing spend behind Reach than it did for 2007’s Halo 3. A huge mainstream marketing campaign will see the title promoted …
Read More »OPINION: The format wars return
The trade will be treated to a good old fashioned format war next week when Sony steps into the motion controller ring – toe-to-toe with Nintendo, and two months before Microsoft’s Kinect debuts. It’s been a long time coming. For ages the Wii’s controller has been its unchallenged point of …
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