Publishing

More than 6.5m copies of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood have been sold into retail globally since the game’s release in November. The figure was announced in Ubisoft’s latest financials, and shows strong sales momentum since last month’s revelation of Brotherhood’s 6m sales worldwide. The follow-up to last year’s Assassin’s Creed II …

Ubisoft has reported sales of €600m for the three months ended December 31st, 2010. The publisher’s third quarter sales show a increase of 21.2 per cent when compared to €495m recorded during the same period last year. This exceeded initial forecasts of €520m. Sales for the first nine months of …

Ubisoft has conquered 21 per cent of the Kinect market in Europe. According the firm’s third quarter financials for the three months ended December 31st, 2010, titles such as Your Shape: Fitness Evolved mean Ubisoft accounts for more than one fifth of the motion controller’s games sales. The company’s European …

PlayStation owners who have previously downloaded PSN content will have to re-purchase any content they wish to access on their Xperia Play. The new Android handset will be compatible with a range of emulated PSone software as well as Android games from a number of publishers. "Xperia Play owners will …

DICE says sequel to adventurous action title was in development but poor sales scuppered plans

The Blur and Project Gotham studio closes on Friday; what will be its legacy?

FIFA 11 keeps Electronic Arts at the top spot for a second month, and Ubisoft racks up a third consecutive month of growth. Interestingly, EA only outranks Ubi in terms of full-price software – the ongoing success of the Just Dance series makes the latter leader of the budget market. After …

Publisher Namco Bandai is working on Android, iPad, and iPhone versions of its biggest franchises. The news comes as the company finalises the merger of its US boxed games division with its Networks department – which looks after digital and mobile games. Namco Bandai US vice president Carlson Choi says …

With Sony pursuing legal avenues against famed PS3 hacker George ‘Geohotz’ Hotz, the bedroom coder has fought back in an unexpected way – by publishing a confrontational hip-hop piece on YouTube. With lyrics that proclaim himself to be "a personification of freedom for all", Hotz goads Sony into continuing its …

Twenty firms already backing the device; 50 launch games inbound