Publishing

Having made its name on PS2 and gone on to enjoy success on both Xbox 360 and PS3, Capcom’s Devil May Cry series has now shipped 10m units worldwide. The original title, which arrived in 2001, was an energetic interpretation of the formula made popular by fellow Capcom IP Onimusha …

Big Huge Games up for sale while Heavy Iron and Incinerator go independent

1980’s hit Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler is the most downloaded track in Sony’s SingStore in the UK, it has emerged. SingStore is the online content portal that arrived alongside the PS3 iteration of Sony’s world conquering karaoke franchise SingStar in December 2007, and has to date …

Leading internet search form Google is to host a games-centric press gathering at GDC next week, though the details of what will or will not be on show remain deliberately vague. Invites for the event seem to focus on games-related themes for iGoogle. More interestingly, however, it also states: We …

Alex Evans, the co-founder of LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule, believes that any gamers interested in buying a PS3 have already done so – and that if Sony wishes to grow the console’s user base it has to transfer the casual success it saw on PS2. To read the full story, …

Resident Evil 5 was already a safe bet to top the UK charts later today, and more good news for the title comes with Capcom confirming that it has shipped 4m copies of the titles worldwide. The game sold a hearty 400,000 copies in Japan in its opening week, and …

LucasArts has revealed that it has no plans to open a European distribution office – because Activision is doing such a stellar job as its third-party publishing partner. The two companies renewed their pan-European, Southeast Asia and Australian publishing and distribution agreement last week. And LucasArts has now told MCV …

Sony Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ eagerly anticipated Spider-man 4 has been dated for May 6th 2011, with Marvel confirming a number of films that will see three year’s worth of summer blockbusters. Alongside the web-crawler, also on the way is Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), The First Avenger: Captain …

Creative Assembly is set to follow-up t he success of Empire: Total War, with futuristic console RTS, Stormrise. 2009 has already been a big year for the RTS genre, with Dawn of War II, Halo Wars and Empire: Total War performing well in the All Formats Top Ten. And Creative …

Electronic Arts has backed MCV’s complaint to the Advertising Stands Authority over the Government’s controversial print ad for its Change4Life campaign. Since MCV announced last week that it had filed an official complaint with the ASA regarding the Government’s Change4Life campaign, Codemasters, Konami, Future, Tiga, Atari and Sega have all …