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Read More »Sony says 360 and Wii owners will upgrade to PS3
Andrew House, the president of SCE Europe, has suggested that owners of current consoles such as Wii and Xbox 360 will ‘upgrade’ to a PS3 in an effort to keep track of the technology offered by Sony’s machine. If you look back at previous lifecycles, like PS2 versus N64, we …
Read More »EA lashes out at licensed games
Publisher EA has once again poured scorn over the licensed games market – a sector it was once famed for bossing. Following reportedly disappointing sales of recent console release The Godfather II, the president of the EA Games label Frank Gibeau told the LA Times that: We’re not going to …
Read More »The Dare to be Digital race begins
Over 70 students from around the world embark on a ten week contest to design a BAFTA-winning game
Read More »Sony arming PSP to directly take on the DS market
Sonyâ??s handheld enterprise transformed to allow cheaper development on smaller, casual and niche titles
Read More »Nintendo: We want to win over the Halo audience
After enjoying huge growth in the now blossoming casual market, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has said that PS3 and Xbox 360 owning core gamers are the company’s next target for market growth. We have near-term, mid-term and long-term opportunities – the near-term opportunity is the consumer who owns …
Read More »GERMANY: Calls for violent games ban
Germany has moved one step closer to a sweeping national ban on violent games in a move that could not only dent the European market for mature games but also threaten the country’s games industry. GamePolitics reports that 16 of the country’s interior ministers have joined forces to petition the …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Sims 3 debuts at the top
EA’s The Sims 3 has wrestled the top spot from UFC 2009: Undisputed, marking the second time a PC game has topped the charts this year. Sega’s Empire: Total War enjoyed the same success back in February, which was the first PC No. 1 since Football Manager back in 2007. …
Read More »A new golden era for games?
Rick Gibson on the democratisation of distribution models
Read More »Halo Wars dev moves to Appleâ??s iPhone group
Ex-Ensemble, ex-Microsoft game designer Graeme Devine now working at Apple, but is he still making games?
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