Publishing

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

Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that EA’s debut foray into the mixed martial arts genre will be its last following a poor performance from the recently released EA Sports MMA at retail. The brawler entered the UK Charts in 23rd spot yesterday and faces a tough time …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has claimed that it will be selling each 130 Kinect motion camera for a profit. Speaking to The New York Times, Microsoft’s Don Mattrick claimed that the first ever prototype for the device cost $30,000 to manufacture and has in total cost hundreds of millions …

Christian Svensson praises the nationâ??s artistic credentials