Publishing

Xbox creators seek to calm the waters after an explosive day in the industry

Fallout 3 publisher Bethesda has opened two new offices in France and Germany. The Paris and Frankfurt offices will oversee sales marketing in their respective countries, joining two other international offices in London and Tokyo. ZeniMax-owned Bethesda, which has headquarters based in Marylands in the US, has also appointed two …

Today’s surprise announcement of a ten-year publishing agreement between Activision and Bungie has rocked the games industry, but what exactly does it mean for both companies? The first thing to note is that the lucrative Halo franchise will not be going multiplatform. Microsoft owns that IP and has self-owned Seattle-based …

Publisher Activision has signed a ten year deal with Halo developer Bungie that grants it worldwide publishing rights to a future multiformat release. The move brings one of the most acclaimed developers into the Activision stable and is all the more notable considering the recent fall-out with super high-profile developer …

James Cameron’s Avatar has broken UK records to become the fastest selling Blu-ray release every in this country. The HD disc sold a considerable 222,824 copies on its first day of release – which is more than last year’s The Dark Knight sold in its first week. Previously Avatar had …

Halo studio to become Activisionâ??s exclusive partner for the next decade

Xbox 360 owners who snap up Activision’s Singularity will be entitled to receive a free copy of 2009’s open-world action title Prototype. It’s out in North America on June 29th, though it doesn’t yet have a firm UK release date. A late June or early July release is expected. The …

Yesterday you saw the cut-down TV version of Microsoft’s brand new live-action teaser trailer for Halo Reach. Now, courtesy of Kotaku, you can watch the full-length version:

The CEO of development studio Obsidian has claimed that his studios’ cancelled Aliens RPG was, to all intents and purposes, complete when Sega decided to pull the plug. If you had come in and played any of the last builds we were working on, you would have said it was …

Unconfirmed title Red Steel 3 will supposedly use Nintendoâ??s upcoming peripheral