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Post-Christmas sales of Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games have helped push Sega’s Q1 revenues for 2008-2009 up 90 per cent to 30.5 billion Japanese yen ($279.6m). The result, for the three months to March 31st 2008, means that the division reduces its operating loss from 7.2 billion yen …
Read More »Microsoft: No question downloads will overtake retail
Microsoft says there is ‘no question’ that the sale of downloaded games will overtake the sales of games at retail in the coming years. According to David Gosen, Xbox Europe’s VP of strategic marketing and Live, There’s no question digital will overtake physical. It happened in music and will happen …
Read More »Warner IP to fuel new LEGO titles
The highly anticipated LEGO Batman is just the beginning of developer Traveller’s Tales brick-based output under parent Warner Bros, the boss of the studio has revealed. Traveller’s Tales president Jon Burton said that the company was already working on LEGO titles based on Warner IP. Warner Bros., which acquired Traveller’s …
Read More »Realtime Worlds urges Scottish developers to join Tiga
Crackdown developer makes call as it joins developer association
Read More »Microsoft: â??Weâ??re investing to win in Europeâ??
VP Gosen says format-holder will put more cash into dev relations and content deals
Read More »Warcraft launches in Russia
Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft and its expansion The Burning Crusade have both finally seen a release in Russia. The titles have been fully localised and allow consumers to begin playing on dedicated realms with the benefit of a Russian-language customer-support team. The release is the fifth European-language version of World …
Read More »MGS4 pushes Konami Q1 profits up 32%
‘Sensational’ sales of Metal Gear Solid 4 pushed Konami’s Q1 net profits up 32 per cent year on year, the company has reported. Net income stood at 5.7 billion Japanese Yen ($52.57m) for the three-month period to June 30th – which compared favourably with last year’s post of 3.9 billion …
Read More »Midway Chicago studio head departs
Mike Bilder leaves for another Chicago-based studio; two more leave from publishing side
Read More »Olympic standards
It may be embroiled in political controversy and concerns over pollution, but the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is set to be the biggest sporting event of the year. At Athens in 2004, more than 300 TV channels provided 35,000 hours of Olympic coverage to 3.9 billion people in 220 countries. …
Read More »Riccitiello: Crappy licensed games take the industry backwards
It seems that barely a day passes without EA CEO John Riccitiello hitting the headlines – and this time the outspoken boss has lashed out at below-par license-based games. Though Riccitiello admits that EA has churned out some poor licensed titles in its time, he also states that things are …
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