Publishing

Square Enix has announced that a sequel to Final Fantasy Dissidia is in the works. The catchily titled Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy will arrive sometime next year exclusively for PSP. The name refers to the ‘12th battle’ – a new war that the game revolves around, with ‘duodecim’ meaning …

Though question marks hang over Activision’s true intentions toward a possible Premium online Call of Duty service, the publisher’s COO Thomas Tippl has admitted that the company is looking to give Call of Duty fans more choice” as it looks to extend revenue models”. However, Tippl did promise that the …

Sony’s PlayStation 3 has now overtaken Wii to become the best selling home console of 2010 in Japan. In total since January Sony’s machine has shifted 1,017,094 units in the territory compared to Wii’s 1,015,513, according to numbers from Media Create reported by VG247. Coupled with the most recent data …

Are you on the lookout for a man that says what he thinks and doesn’t mind risking upsetting people? Well here he is – Bobby Kotick is at it again. This time the outspoken business leader and Activision publishing CEO has stated that he’d like to start charging gamers to …

EA Bright Light speak to us about their upcoming sci-fi action game Spare Parts

This year’s Tokyo Game Show saw in its highest number of attendees yet, the event’s organiser suggests. CESA says its doors had been walked through some 207,000 times. The first business day saw 24,764 attendees, and 24,229 the next. The third day of the event, which opened up to consumers, …

Sony has revealed that complete tracklist for SingStar’s upcoming foray into the dance genre, SingStar Dance, which is due out at the beginning of November. The game uses the new PlayStation Move controller to couple singing with dancing for the first time in the series. We have carefully selected everything …

Publisher Frogster has confirmed in a short and rather bizarre press release that it has separated itself” from three core members of its senior management team. Acting CFO Ralf Klppel and board member Bjrn Koschin have been recalled with immediate effect” while Frogster America CEO Lars Koschin has been relieved …

AUDIO SPECIAL: Santa Monica's Steve Johnson looks at audio's relationship with narrative

Cult Japanese developer Cave is seemingly on the brink of bringing its first ever boxed Western release to the UK High Street. In recent times the studio has enjoyed great success on iPhone with hit releases DoDonPachi Resurrection and Espgaluda II, but its recent love for Xbox 360 has been …