Publishing

Online men’s lifestyle site AskMen has named Activision boss Bobby Kotick as the 16th most influential man of 2010. There are few people in the gaming industry who divide critics more than Activision Blizzard head honcho Bobby Kotick,” it reads. On one hand, shareholders love his ability to generate revenue …

At this stage it’s impossible to know what’s true and what’s not about Sony’s new PSP machines, but Kotaku has gone live with what it claims are further specs about the PSP’s true successor, the PSP2. It reports that the device houses twice the RAM of Xbox 360 – 1GB …

The Networked Product and Services Division of Sony, which houses amongst many things its PlayStation operations, has reported an operating profit of 6.9bn ($86m) in its fiscal Q2 – a drastic improvement on the 59bn ($730m) loss it incurred in the same period in 2009. Sales at the unit grew …

The days of Xbox 360 being a red smudge on the otherwise robust financials of Microsoft are nothing but a distant memory now as once again the company’s Xbox 360 operations have reported strong numbers in the quarter ending September 30th 2010. Revenues at Microsoft’s console business climbed 33 per …

Ed Fries reveals the tumultuous 24 months that led to the launch of Microsoft's console

The upcoming Google TV platform is poised to welcome dedicated games functionality – a move that could enable the platform to squarely rival dedicated consoles such as Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Google TV is a software platform that will come included in the innards of some new TVs or …

The new manager of Microsoft owned UK developer Rare has told MCV that the progress made in Kinect game development over recent months points to an amazing future for the device as studios continue to discover new ways to implement the technology. Rare has actually developed quite a bit of …

Zenimax Media has acquired Shinji Mikami’s new Tokyo-based studio, Tango. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though this month Zenimax raised $150m for what it deemed a ‘tactical buyout’. Mikami, the creator of Resident Evil and numerous other hit titles, said it was refreshing to find a publisher …

Chillingo, the iPhone game publisher that EA acquired this month, has sold over 2m copies of Cut The Rope in just three weeks. "Our new partnership with EA enables us to expand [the game’s] prospects, visibility and reach to make more of an impact than ever before,” said Chillingo general …

German consumers hoping to get their hands on the PC version of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops will not be able to play PAL versions imported from other EU territories. The strict censorship laws in the country mean that many games – and particularly those with an historical …