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Publisher EA has seemingly nailed its flag to the iPhone mast with the news that a number of its key gaming franchises are heading to the platform this year. Edge reports that snowboarding franchise SSX, the return of which was hinted at in the in-game commentary of 2008 racer Burnout …
Read More »Star Trek DAC detailed
Initial details have been revealed for Star Trek DAC, the video game due for release alongside the upcoming Star Trek movie. Star Trek DAC will only be available as a downloadable title, according the film’s associate producer David Baronoff and Joshua Glazer, CTO of the game’s developer Naked Sky Entertainment, …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: News round-up
This week in Retail Biz, Granger Games has opened the first of four new stores as GAME wins best specialist at the Oracle Retail Week Awards.Elsewhere, the DSi has hit two million units sold in Japan, February’s NPD data was released for all to see, and the new Woolworths expects …
Read More »Now Microsoft cuts console dev costs
Microsoft has outlined its efforts for developers, marking 2009 as the year it looks to ‘reduce risk and cut the cost of art development’ As part of that drive, the platform holder has announced a new version of the Xbox 360 development kit, and detailed a new version of its …
Read More »Nickelodeon reveals Shockwave revamp
The Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group has revealed a brand new look for its Shockwave casual games portal, along with new membership incentives and a range of over 400 games. There has been explosive growth in online casual gaming in the past couple of years and people want to …
Read More »Valve tackling DRM issue
Valve has unveil a new set of advanced features for its Steamworks platforms at GDC, offering a complete suite of publishing and development tools that promise to make DRM a thing of the past. In a statement to the press Valve points to the Custom Executable Generation technology as the …
Read More »Sony Online boss reaches out to retail
SOE boss John Smedley has outlined his company’s plan to target children and families – and retailers – with its new MMO Free Realms at the GamesBeat conference today. Smedley told attendees at the the event, organised by VentureBeat, that Sony Online Entertainment – which is now a division of …
Read More »Sony Online plans to challenge Jagex with new MMO
GDC 09: Free Realms developed with kids in mind
Read More »Online rebirth revealed for Tetris
Alexey Pajitnov, the original designer and creator of Russian gaming sensation Tetris, is on board as one of the team bringing Tetris to a whole new generation of gamers in the newly revealed Tetris Friends Online Games. Other members of Pajitnov’s team include former Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: The official UK games charts
The official ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack charts are in – but it’s not all about the All Formats list. By visiting MCV’s official single format charts each week, you can keep fully up-to-date with what’s going on at UK tills. Resident Evil 5 continues to dominate both PS3 and Xbox 360’s lists this …
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