Publishing

The developer behind PC and console MMO Kingdom Under Fire II has confirmed that the game is unlikely to be released anytime in the near future. The reason? The very same issue that has dogged both potential Xbox 360 MMO releases Champions Online and Final Fantasy XIV – Microsoft’s closed-wall …

Virtual goods purchases to be streamlined with new online payment utility

The HD re-make of No More Heroes will be a PS3 exclusive in the US, publisher Konami has confirmed. No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise is a 720p revamp of the original 2008 Wii title and has already been released on both PS3 and Xbox 360 in Japan. However, in the …

The three men in charge of Square Enix have told MCV that the company’s new global agenda is not merely leveraging Eastern properties in Europe and the US – it’s about returning fire with Western games that can break into the Japanese market. I think today, [releasing Square Enix Europe’s …

As X Factor contestants capably demonstrate on a weekly basis, there is no difference of ambition between the gifted and the bewildered. Brilliant icons-in-waiting share the same self-belief as tone-deaf fantasists. The game business is of little difference to Simon Cowell’s talent-contest-meets-Victorian-freak-show. The audience has the ultimate decision on whether …

OnNetâ??s Berlin office to serve as a centre of operations on the continent

It has emerged that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was furious to lose Mac-loving Bungie to Microsoft back when Halo was an unknown quantity. Ed Fries, the former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, and the man central to Microsoft’s acquisition of Rare and Bungie, told sister site Develop he …

The time has come to drop the idea that publishers are the only source of games financing

New independent data puts the Farmville studio at $5.51bn

Apple boss made angry Ballmer call when Xbox bought Mac experts and Halo creators Bungie