Publishing

Bungie has stated that its still mysterious debut game for new partner Activision is being deliberately designed to carry over to a new generation of console hardware. Speaking to CVG, Bungie community director Brian Jarrard explained: I don’t know if developers aren’t ‘ready’ to kick off a new generation of …

The developer drafted in by Konami to work on the upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadows has said that while the game will be shipping on a single Blu-ray disc for PS3, the Xbox 360 SKU will have to be put onto two DVDs. Furthermore, it thinks that the problem is …

Experienced finance man Owen Mahoney joins Korean studio

A crossover of the much-loved Tekken and Street Fighter series will keep the beat ‘em up genre fresh. That’s according to Capcom and Namco, who last week announced they will join forces for two 360/PS3 games that merge the franchises. The publishers claim the new games – one handled by …

2011 Q1 financials are in; EA claims market leadership on HD consoles; Digital revenues leap 50%

EA has confirmed that a sequel to racing sim Need for Speed: Shift is in development. But not only that – that game will be released in the first three months of 2011. Nothing else is yet known about the title, though expect it to hit on Xbox 360, PS3 …

EA has confirmed that it has delayed the release of Crytek’s tech-heavy console shooter Crysis until the last quarter of its current financial year. This means the game will not longer arrive before Christmas, as had been previously suggested, but will instead hit retail some time between January and March …

All the winners, and their reaction to receiving their accolades

Virgin Gaming has announced a new partnership with Ubisoft. The new games venture from Sir Richard Branson will be the online tournament provider for some of the publisher’s biggest multiplayer console titles, starting with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Ubisoft is one of the leading video game publishers in …

With Microsoft sending out mixed messages about the potential hardcore appeal of Kinect, Ubisoft has claimed that one of its first Kinect titles will really speak” to the core Xbox 360 audience. Last month Microsoft said that it’s developing controller-based games for the core and Kinect titles that appeal to …