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Army of Two: The 40th Day, EA’s follow-up to its surprise 2008 next-gen hit, will no longer be released this year and will instead join the growing number of titles hitting retail in the first quarter of 2010. The game sees original protagonists Salem and Rios venture to Shanghai and …
Read More »Buzz builds for Canadas key dev show
As the fifth annual Montreal International Games Summit fast approaches, event organiser Alliance Numrique has opened early bird registrations for the show. The event, set to launch from November 16-17, will see key speaker sessions from companies such as Maxis, Valve, Square Enix and Media Molecule. Early-bird registration discounts could …
Read More »Capcom pays tribute to GRIN
The publisher is confident the Andersson brothers will find their feet
Read More »EA Sports: Weve finally cracked female market
EA Sports has finally solved the dilemma of how to appeal to the female market. That was according to label boss Peter Moore this morning, speaking to delegates at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Discussing the reinvention of EA Sports since his arrival in 2007, Moore said that the firm had …
Read More »Europeans spent 8.5bn on games in ’08
Market data firm GameVision provided some key insight into the games market in Europe at a talk at the Edinburgh Interactive conference this morning, revealing that €8.5bn was spent on software last year. However the firm said that the widely reported rise of casual and massmarket gamers hasn’t accounted for …
Read More »Well rival Nike and Sky, says Moore
EA Sports president Peter Moore has claimed that the label will become a more important to sports fans than Nike, Adidas, Sky Sports and Fox in future – as it bids to become the world’s leading sports brand”. Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this morning in a loudly applauded …
Read More »Deering: 10m sales the new milestone
Former SCEE president and Codemasters chairman Chris Deering told the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that publishers of today’s biggest games should aim for ten million sales – as the ‘winners win big’ from changes in business models. Industry legend Deering cited Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, which he said had sold approximately nine …
Read More »Future closes PSW magazine
Following the surprise news that Future is to refrain from ABCing its games magazines today, the publisher has now confirmed that it has closed independent PlayStation title PSW. Future has told MCV that one member of the magazine’s team has already been assigned a new role within the firm, whilst …
Read More »Sega committed to hardcore Wii titles
More adult Wii games will be release by Sega despite lacklustre sales of titles such as MadWorld. At least that’s according to the publisher’s Western COO and President Mike Hayes, who told Wired that the Wii’s massive user base makes it a lucrative market for adult games, and that he …
Read More »Income, profit and sales soar at NCsoft
Korean MMO behemoth NCsoft has posted some recession-busting numbers in its latest financial report for the quarter ending June 30th. Total net income grew an amazing 451 per cent compared to the same period in 2008, reaching $27m. In addition, operating profit rocketed to $38.1m – a 353 per cent …
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