Microsoft’s iPod rivalling Zune player will not be housing games in the near future as they don’t offer good customer satisfaction”. That’s according to former Xbox strategy manager J Allard, who is heading up the Zune project for Bill Gates. Speaking to Reuters after the launch of a new, updated …
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LightSpeed Studios announced as sponsor of the Player’s Choice Award – NOW OPEN TO VOTE!
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Nintendo shows its green side
Nintendo is set to please the green brigade with the release of Chibi-Robo: Park Control in the US. The publisher is giving away free tree seedlings with a limit number of units of the environmentally-conscious game, which sees players cleaning up a parks, building park equipment and defeating toxic enemies. …
Read More »Nintendo shows its green side
Nintendo is set to please the green brigade with the release of Chibi-Robo: Park Control in the US. The publisher is giving away free tree seedlings with a limit number of units of the environmentally-conscious game, which sees players cleaning up a parks, building park equipment and defeating toxic enemies. …
Read More »Games Industry Status – Hooked on Facebook
I’ve enjoyed all of those in the past week, along with a ‘moon’ from a male friend, a bitch-slap, a bite, a lick and a hug. I’ve also been sent presents of a couple of kissing otters and a cute penguin. And discovered that I score 186 (very good, by …
Read More »Games Industry Status – Hooked on Facebook
I’ve enjoyed all of those in the past week, along with a ‘moon’ from a male friend, a bitch-slap, a bite, a lick and a hug. I’ve also been sent presents of a couple of kissing otters and a cute penguin. And discovered that I score 186 (very good, by …
Read More »Halo 3 chalks up £17m at UK retail
Halo 3 Pumped a staggering 17 million into UK retail in its first week on sale. The game made up 68 per cent of all Xbox 360 titles sold, pushing the format to its highest ever software sales week. And it wasn’t only games that benefitted – Xbox 360 hardware also …
Read More »Halo 3 chalks up £17m at UK retail
Halo 3 Pumped a staggering 17 million into UK retail in its first week on sale. The game made up 68 per cent of all Xbox 360 titles sold, pushing the format to its highest ever software sales week. And it wasn’t only games that benefitted – Xbox 360 hardware also …
Read More »Industry follows Nintendo as gaming goes casual
Retail has this week hailed the rise of casual gaming as key to a lucrative peak period with ‘the Nintendo effect’ continuing to reverberate across the industry. The runaway sales success of Nintendo’s DS and Wii has spearheaded a seismic shift in the way people play games – and now …
Read More »Industry follows Nintendo as gaming goes casual
Retail has this week hailed the rise of casual gaming as key to a lucrative peak period with ‘the Nintendo effect’ continuing to reverberate across the industry. The runaway sales success of Nintendo’s DS and Wii has spearheaded a seismic shift in the way people play games – and now …
Read More »JAPAN: Master Chief conquers all
Microsoft’s struggle to break into the Japanese games market is well documented – but Xbox 360 proved it does have some muscle in the territory this week as Halo 3 entered the charts in first spot. Media Create reports that the game sold 59,000 copies in its first week on …
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[Industry news] XDS 2026 Insights Report is now live
The 2026 XDS Insights Report examines how external development partnerships are evolving as they become a core part of modern production pipelines. Based on input from 250+ industry professionals, the report shows an ecosystem moving beyond delivery risk and into a new phase shaped by coordination, governance, and long-term collaboration.
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