Publishing

Ubisoft has delayed Driver: San Francisco until early 2011. The title has been pushed back to the first quarter of next year – the fourth quarter of the publisher’s financial year – to avoid the crowded seasonal selling period. In a trading statement, Ubisoft said: Due to the competitive market …

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Microsoft has scored its first Gfk Chart-Track No.1 of the year with Crackdown 2. The open-world action title is the fifteenth No.1 of the year, and knocks LEGO Harry Potter from the top spot. Warner’s family title now sits in No.2, with Red Dead Redemption following close behind. Ubisoft has …

3D TV is set to take off in such a major way that we could see 3D compatible sets in every home in the UK by 2013 – that’s the claim of French publisher Ubisoft. The somewhat surprising assertion flies in the face of many commentators who feel that both …

UPDATE: Sony has contacted MCV to say that the Move controller will retail for 24.99, the same price as the PlayStation Eye. Having taken four years to get to the point where each PS3 console sold actually returns a profit, Sony has confirmed that it will be making money from …

Successors to the Wii and Xbox 360 are more likely to arrive before the release of the PlayStation 4, according to a top Sony exec. Looking from the outside, it was Microsoft that released the first of this generation of consoles. Naturally, in my opinion, Microsoft will make the first …

Rob Bartel, the principal designer at BioWare, has told MCV that last year’s PC and console release Dragon Age was the most successful game the studio has ever produced – trumping high-profile sci-fi release Mass Effect in the process. The boast also places Dragon Age above the likes of Star …

Acclaimed RPG developer BioWare has finally issued official word on the in-development RPG sequel Dragon Age 2. The game is a fully-fledged sequel featuring a brand new storyline that plays out over the course of ten years and is once again dependent on the in-game decisions of the player. A …

Sony was told back in 2008 that Insomniac Games wanted to break away from the platform holder, the company has revealed. Now two years later, and a few weeks after EA’s deal with Insomniac went public, a high-profile Sony executive tells Develop he was personally saddened by the studio’s switch. …

'We grew up together' says Sony's studio boss, but remains optimistic for the future