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Square Enix has launched the official website for upcoming release Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. The portal offers fans information about the game’s story and the latest news and pre-order deals – as well as media assets and free game related downloads. Crisis Core is due for a European release …
Read More »Hirai: First-party studios must devise ‘envelope-pushing, genre-defining content’
SCE boss points to internal studio innovations as key in driving PS3 forward
Read More »Mario & Sonic to keep Sega running until Xmas
Sega is embarking on its first re-marketing of a catalogue title in a bid to keep Mario and Sonic in the UK All Formats top five until Christmas. The ambitious target has been set after the Wii and DS title clocked up 1.2m sales in the UK since launch last …
Read More »Unity now available for Wii
PC/Mac and iPhone engine expands into console space
Read More »Xbox partnering with Netflix?
Speaking after a Netflix analyst event in San Francisco, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter is convinced that the movie rental company will soon team up with Microsoft over Xbox Live. As reported by GameDaily, Pachter said in a research note: "The company is investing heavily in building its online …
Read More »100 WiiWare titles in development
Nintendo’s US senior director of product development Tom Prata has revealed there are about 100” games in development for the firm’s WiiWare service. According to Prata, the games are at various stages of completion”. He ruled out the introduction of a ‘try-before-you-buy’ trial demo system for each game. Speaking to …
Read More »DOWNLOADS CHARTS: Football Manager scores again
Football Manager 2008 has stayed at number one in the Metaboli Download to Own charts for the third month. The Sega-published title continues to outsell Eidos’ Championship Manager, which has to make do with second place. Atari titles The Witcher and Test Drive Unlimited take up the third and fourth …
Read More »Cooking up a storm
Back in December 2007, MCV reported that a certain game had cooked up one million sales in Europe, after only a year of release. Shortly afterwards the game got international credentials, when it clocked up 1.6 million sales in the US. Not bad for a DS and Wii game based …
Read More »Kids play adult-rated games on Newsnight
BBC current affairs TV show Newsnight has filmed two boys playing a ’15’-rated game in front of one of its reporters – despite the pair clearly being younger than the title’s BBFC age classification. Last Wednesday evening’s episode of the show featured an examination of the legacy of media critic …
Read More »Ubisoft ready to spend $1.2bn
Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, has said that the firm must "continue to grow at a rapid pace in the years to come" to remain competitive – revealing he has up to 780m Euros (or $1.2bn) to spend on acquiring studios or publishers which will grow the company. Speaking to …
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