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A new report entitled the 2009 Corporate Equity Index, compiled by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, has praised three of gaming’s most high-profile companies for their treatment of gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. GamePolitics reports that EA, Microsoft and retailer GameStop were amongst the many companies scoring …
Read More »Microsoft confirms GTAIV DLC this autumn
As part of its press statement confirming the previously rumoured but now confirmed price cuts for its range of Xbox 360 SKUs in the UK, Microsoft has also seemingly nailed down a pre-Christmas arrival for its exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content. A snippet from the statement reads: Continuing …
Read More »Spectrum Collection heads to Gamestation
Retro fans may still be weeping after the news that Gamestation has burned the vast bulk of its retro games stock – but at least there’s something to rejoice in the news that the retailer is going to be the exclusive stockist of a new Sinclair Spectrum compendium for PC. …
Read More »Online spearheads Zavvi growth
High Street retailer Zavvi has heralded a successful first year on the market by announcing strong improvements over the performance of the company it bought out in 2007 – Virgin Megastores. Sales in its online operations increased an impressive 148 per cent over the last twelve months compared to the …
Read More »PDP acquires In2Games
Performance Designed Products (PDP) has acquired In2Games, the British and Hong Kong-based developer of motion sensing gaming technology and upcoming casual title Squeebles In2Games’ technology, Gametrak Freedom, is an ultrasonic 3D motion sensing technology which it claims ‘delivers performance, control and flexibility far in excess of that offered by existing …
Read More »Nintendo tops profit per capita table
Nintendo makes more profits per employee than both investment bank Goldman Sachs and Google, according to survey put together by the Financial Times. Each of the 3,000 staff at Nintendo – most of which work in games development or R&D – will produce $1.6m in profile this year.For the full …
Read More »US: DS breaks August hardware sales record
Figures from US sales analyst NPD group have shown that Nintendo’s DS sold more hardware units in August than any machine has ever sold throughout the month in North America. Videogamer reports that DS sold 518,000 units in the territory last month – beating the previous record set by PS2 …
Read More »Guitar Hero output to triple
Publisher Activision Blizzard has vowed to triple the number of Guitar Hero games on the market by 2010, the firm said at its investors gathering yesterday according to Shacknews . Moreso, the number of titles on the market will be doubled by next year. The UK Charts are currently littered …
Read More »Call of Duty online to be monetized
As part of its latest analyst gathering in the US, publisher Activision Blizzard has said that the number of hours ploughed into games such as Call of Duty 4 online is a business opportunity the company can’t ignore. Plus, the firm also sees online premium content as a way of …
Read More »UK Xbox price cuts confirmed
UK consumers will be able to pick up an Xbox 360 console from just 129.99 after Microsoft confirmed its latest round of price cuts this morning. From Friday September 19th Microsoft’s console line-up will be tweaked to offer the entry-level Arcade SKU at 129.99, standard console with 60GB hard drive …
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