Game development news

WiiWare Week: Ready to Ware?

Continuing our series of features looking at the imminent arrival of Nintendo's WiiWare platform, another studio working on a launch title for the new service argues that the format-holder is helping change development significantlyâ?¦

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Rockstar: GTA MMO a compelling proposition

Whilst the news of online-mutliplayer for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 4 is exciting enough, the latest rumblings to come out of Rockstar are even more titillating. Speaking to EGM magazine, Rockstar founder Sam Houser has said that an MMO version of Grand Theft Auto is very, very doable” and …

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WiiWare Week: Portrait of a launch title

For the first in our series of features examining the upcoming WiiWare platform and developers' support for the service, we talk to Frontier boss Braben about his studio's game LostWinds, a launch title for the distribution platformâ?¦

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Q&A: Chris Satchell, Part 2

User-created content is one of the Big New Things for the future, but the thought of keeping offensive content out of the system is a frightening thought. But with Microsoft leaving the control of its Xbox Live Community Games ecosystem with the users, we ask: can they be trusted?

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Midway revenues at $157.2m for 2007, but losses grow to $97.4m

Midway yesterday reported its 2007 full year and Q4 financials, reporting revenues down just under $10m to $157.2m for 2007 and with losses growing to $97.4m, up from $77.8m year on year. The firm announced that it had enterted into a new $90m credit agreement with National Amusements, terminating its …

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