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Electronic Arts has announced it is to launch and operate Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Working closely with developers EA Mythic, GigaMedia will provide marketing, community management, technical support and customer service functions. We are pleased and honoured to become EA’s operating partner on …
Read More »New High School Musical game announced
Disney Interactive Studios is set to release another title in its popular High school Musical series. High School Musical: Work This Out! Will be released on Nintendo DS in April. The title is described by Disney as ‘an all-new musical adventure game, featuring storylines extending beyond High School Musical 2′. …
Read More »Sony cuts PS3 sales target
Reuters reports that the platform holder now expects to have sold 1.5 million fewer PS3s than its initial sales target up to March. But its handheld console has outstripped forecasts – Sony has raised its sales target for PSP for the current business year by three million to 13 million. …
Read More »Gamers to see SAW in 2009
Attention gore fans: Brash Entertainment has announced it has acquired the rights to a game based on grisly horror movie series SAW. Underneath an eerie headline of ‘Oh yes.. There will be blood…’ a Brash press release sent out today reveals the title will be released in October next year …
Read More »Format breakdown
Wii TOP 10 ALL PRICES 1. Wii Play (Nintendo) 2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) 3. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) 4. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) 5. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) 6. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo) 7. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo) 8. …
Read More »Microsoft: 360 can be this generations PS2
Top Microsoft exec Jeff Bell has revealed that the format holder plans to make Xbox 360 ‘this generation’s PS2′. Bell, corporate VP of global marketing for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, also said he was hopeful that 360 would become popular with Wii owners who had ‘graduated’ above Nintendo’s console. Speaking …
Read More »Future teams with Panini for Girl Gamer
Girl Gamer is an extension of Future’s Official Nintendo Magazine, and will be included free with Easter issues of Panini’s monthly title Bliss and fortnightly publication Mizz. The second issue will focus on DS and Wii titles, and follows the success of the first magazine. It boasts a print run …
Read More »Stringer and Kotick sceptical of of in-game ads
Sony and Activision bosses unsure platform can bankroll video games
Read More »Stringer, Kotick question potential of in-game ads
Sony’s Howard Stringer and Activision’s Bobby Kotick have both said they are unsure whether video games can be fully sustained by in-game advertising. The news comes after EA announced it was to make its new Battlefield game available for free on the internet – and was financially supporting it through …
Read More »Jagex plays with FunOrb
Cambridge developer to launch casual portal
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