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Platform holder Microsoft has outlined its reasoning behind its blanket ban on the use of the swastika in the multiplayer mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The online element of the game allows users to personalise their own badges. So detailed are the tools that the possibilities are endless. …
Read More »Ed Bartlett departs IGA Worldwide
IGA Worldwide has announced that Ed Bartlett has left the company. He leaves his position as vice president for Europe at the in-game advertising firm to pursue other interests. During his time at IGA, he secured deals with leading publishers such as EA, Valve, Codemasters, Sega and Atari, and helped …
Read More »3 screens, 1 cloud
Ruffian Games' Billy Thomson looks at cloud gaming and the future
Read More »Halo Wars community to be closed
Less than two years after it was released on Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced that it is to close many of its dedicated support features for strategy title Halo Wars. Specifically, the next title update for the game will implement measures designed to accommodate the closure of the HaloWars.com website. …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Black Ops still top
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is today celebrating its second week at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it successfully fends off the advances of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which claim second and third place …
Read More »Treyarch has done better than Infinity Ward
The CEO of Activision’s parent company Vivendi has stated that in Call of Duty: Black Ops, Treyarch has made a better game than Infinity Ward ever has. We have broken our own record. I am very, very pleased,” Jean-Bernard Lvy told investors at a Morgan Stanley conference this week, as …
Read More »Xmas boost predicted for Shred
Despite the poor performance from Tony Hawk’s Shred so far at retail, the key Christmas period could yet bring success to the title, Activision has claimed. Yesterday MCV reported that the game sold just 3,000 units in its first week on sale in the US, a number that represents a …
Read More »Retail’s busiest week
Last week, two of the biggest products of the year launched within 24 hours – and games retail certainly rose to the occasion. The High Street is accustomed to handling midnight openings and star-studded launch parties, but the timing of Black Ops’ and Kinect’s UK debuts triggered the busiest week in …
Read More »Codemasters targets Bizarre staff
Recruitment event to be held next week
Read More »Zynga building ‘our most social game ever’
New title CityVille to launch across continents
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