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Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles have been complemented with DLC. How is Take-Two approaching this model and what are the benefits to it? First and foremost, downloadable content vastly enhances the gameplay experience for our audience. For example, The Lost and Damned, our first downloadable episode …
Read More »Kotick: World games industry worth $55bn by 2012
Activision Blizzard might not be a member of E3-organiser the ESA, but that hasn’t stopped it from making a bid to, in the word of one insider, ‘own’ the event. E3 starts today with press conferences from publishers and format-holders – but Activision didn’t want to wait. So along with …
Read More »Will the Go re-ignite developer interest for PSP? Sony thinks so
E3 '09: New PlayStation Portable puts emphasis on shorter games to attract studios
Read More »Premium DJ Hero SKU to unite gaming and music retail
At its investor briefing today, Activision further detailed its collaboration with superstar musicians Jay-Z and Eminem on DJ Hero- and revealed that a premium SKU featuring their music will also be available at retail. Last week it emerged that the two were to serve as consultants to developer FreeStyle Games …
Read More »Global games market will be worth $55bn by 2012, says Activision
E3 '09: CEO Kotick kick-starts E3 with bold investor event detailing market growth
Read More »Deep Silver rescues Prison Break game
Koch’s Deep Silver publishing label has snapped up the rights to distribute the game based on TV show Prison Break. The game, commissioned in 2007, was cancelled by original publisher Brash – a Hollywood firm which made bold claims about improving the quality of licensed games, only to fail miserably …
Read More »PSP Go info leaked
E3 '09: Images and footage of Sonyâ??s John Koller discussing the new handheld hit the web
Read More »VIDEO: PSP Go info leaked ahead of E3
Video footage and hi-res pictures of the anticipated PSP redesign, the PSP Go, have emerged online ahead of Sony’s planned reveal at E3 next Tuesday. VG247 got hold of a Qore video that was supposed to be posted on the US version of PSN immediately after the platform holder’s E3 …
Read More »Are you prepared for E3?
The doors of this year’s E3 Expo open on Monday at midday (US time) – and if you’re one of the lucky ones going, you will be among the first to test-drive the newest products and latest technologies from the world’s leading interactive entertainment companies. But are you fully prepared …
Read More »Tretton: E3 09 needs exciting floor show
Sony Computer Entertainment America president Jack Tretton has called for a return to the ‘exciting floor show’ of bygone E3 Expos. Tretton’s comments echo those of EA Sports’s Peter Moore and THQ’s Ian Curran, who have both demanded that the event regain some razzmatazz” and strut and swagger”. Last year’s …
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