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Microsoft has revealed Michael Delman as corporate vice president of global marketing for Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) following the departure of Jeff Bell two weeks ago. Charged with driving initiatives to market Microsoft Game Studios and grow the Xbox and Games For Windows platforms and brands, Delman will start in …
Read More »Pixar: Games quality is catching cinema
A leading production exec at animated movie studio Pixar has praised gaming’s evolution – and admitted that the quality of visual technology is catching up” with cinemas. However, Ralph Eggleston, production designer behind Pixar’s upcoming movie, Wall-E, added that video games still lacked a strong narrative story” – and predicted …
Read More »Ubisoft to open studios in Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis next?
Head of new Sao Paulo studio says French publisher could establish more teams in Brazil
Read More »PlayStation phone in production?
Sony is busy working on a PlayStation-branded phone, according to company insiders. Marketing Week reports that the phone will incorporate elements of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and could hit the shelves in time for Christmas 2009. MW quotes ‘sources in Japan and Korea’ which say Sony is working on converting …
Read More »Sony working on PlayStation Phone?
Oft-rumored device in development, say insiders
Read More »Sony: PSP can last ten years
Sony has revealed that it is backing a ten-year plan for its PSP console – with networking playing a key role in its futute. The firm believes that it needs to ‘revitalise’ the development community to get behind creating games for PSP in order to make it fulfil its potential. …
Read More »Ubisoft opens studio in Brazil
The march of Ubisoft across the globe continues apace – the French publisher has today announced plans to open a studio in Brazil, the 20th of its studios around the world. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the new development team Ubisoft’s first studio in South America. The studio will open …
Read More »GAME responds to unlawful sale of adult game
GAME has responded to the Which? sting that revealed the retailer’s Harrow, Middlesex store sold an 18-rated game to a 15-year old girl. As reported on MCV earlier today, the consumer watchdog’s investigation revealed that Woolworths and Maplin stores in the area also sold the underage girl adult video games. …
Read More »‘Storytelling is vital to success’
What’s the basis of this suspicion? Well, one argument is that good stories simply can’t exist in video games, because their interactive nature goes against the linearity of plots in other mediums. Others claim that real gamers aren’t interested in their avatar’s journey—only in how many assailants they can kill. …
Read More »EA Sports peripherals on the way
EA Sports will push its own peripherals into the market in the next 12 months – and announcements may even be ready in time for E3 in July. That’s according to EA Sports exec producer and VP David McCarthy. Speaking at Paris GDC today, McCarthy was asked by an attendee …
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