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Mark Beaumont has been promoted to chief operating officer of Capcom in North America and Capcom Entertainment Europe, as well as maintaining his position on the Capcom Board of directors. Beaumont had been serving as Executive Vice President, Officer, and head of the consumer software publishing business in North and …
Read More »Vivendi and Activision quit ESA
Vivendi and Activision have both discontinued their membership with E3 organiser the Entertainment Software Association – the US equivalent of the UK’s ELSPA. The news comes after both firms – now one entity – confirmed that they would not be demonstrating their titles at this year’s E3. According to Joystiq, …
Read More »Rockstar boss: I like violence
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has made no apologies for the level of carnage in GTA IV – going on the record to state: I like violence.” Speaking as part of a full interview in New York Entertainment magazine, Houser also talked of his frustration with the ‘rise of casual gaming’ …
Read More »Retail set for £100m GTA boost
Financial doom and gloom may be building elsewhere, but the games industry is bucking all the trends as Wii Fit and GTA IV look set to push retail sales up to the 100m mark this week. In the past week, ChartTrack confirmed that Wii Fit has already racked up 16m …
Read More »Shigeru Miyamoto: Most influential person of the year
Another indication of gaming’s mass-market appeal has been secured – as Time Magazine’s readers have named Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto the most influential person in the world this year. Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has taken first place in a Time’s reader’s poll of the 100 most influential people of the year. …
Read More »CNN: GTA IV training our kids to kill
American news network CNN has broadcast an astounding attack on Rockstar’s GTA IV – in which presenter Glenn Beck says the game is training our kids to be killers” and teaches young men to treat women like whores”. In the diatribe, which carries the headline ‘Grand Theft Morality’, Beck likens …
Read More »Nokia developing “highest ever production value mobile title”
Scott Foe's secret Project White Rock is revealed as UGC-driven spoof and will hit PC and handsets
Read More »COMMENT: Believe the hype
One Guardian commentator said that it would be ‘an act of cultural irresponsibility’ not to play GTA IV. Another in The Times termed it ‘the cultural event of the week’. While some media outlets still fall back on the tired old ‘outrage’ headlines, it is genuinely refreshing to see this …
Read More »Gamestop: GTA IV is encouraging PS2 owners to upgrade to PS3
Gamestop’s senior VP of merchandising has revealed that the release of GTA IV has inspired a ‘vigorous’ uptake in purchases of PS3 hardware. In a statement to the press reported by GameDaily, Bob McKenzie said: "From our position, the launch of GTA IV has been tremendous in driving traffic to …
Read More »Microsoft: 360 GTA outselling PS3 version 2-to-1 in US
Microsoft’s product manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg has claimed that US retailers have sold double the number of units of GTA IV on 360 than they have on PS3. In an in-depth interview with Next-Gen, Greenberg said: "What we’ve heard anecdotally from our retail partners is …
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