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In an unprecedented move, EA has cancelled the upcoming NBA Elite 11 and shifted the series to a new developer. It’s the first time EA has missed one of its core annual sports releases and backs up boss John Riccitiello’s public commitment to quality in the publisher’s console output. The …
Read More »Medal of Honor sells 2m
EA has revealed solid sales numbers for its resurrection of the Medal of Honor franchise, with the game having shifted 2m copies since its release last month. The game has exceeded our plan and expectations – sell-through and sell-in,” EA boss John Riccitiello told investors last night. It is an …
Read More »OPINION: Kinecting with the market
We’re here for you, the reader. Any publication or website is. Without readers we die, and if at any time we forget that we’re here to serve you then that’s when the proverbial muck hits the fan. But the relationship between a publication, and more specifically a writer, and its …
Read More »Losses slashed at EA
EA has announced a loss of $201m for the quarter ending September 30th 2010 – that’s nearly half the $391m loss the publisher reported in the same period in 2009. The company now claims to be the No.1 publisher on HD platforms (PS3 and Xbox 360) with a total market …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 is ready
Worried that Gran Turismo 5 was not going to make it to retail in time for Christmas? Worry not, for the game is being pressed onto discs and put into boxes right now. Speaking to Jalopnik, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that the discs are being stamped as we …
Read More »MS: Well sell more 360s this year than in 09
Microsoft’s European VP of Interactive Entertainment Chris Lewis that his company will definitely” sell more Xbox 360 consoles in 2010 than it did in 2009 thanks to the uplift it anticipates the launch of Kinect will bring to the format. We will definitely sell more units in this fiscal year …
Read More »Alworths eyes 150 stores
Gaming has become a major part of Alworths’ plans, as the firm eyes 150 new stores over the next three years. Alworths was founded last year and at the time the retailer had no intentions of going big on entertainment. But that changed during the 2010, with music, DVD and …
Read More »Kinect launch the industry view
Yves Guillemot – Ubisoft, CEO The new [motion sensing] machines are very good because they provide a chance for more people to play. Nintendo showed that it could make lots of money and also serve lots of customers, so now everybody wants that part of the cake.So that’s what we …
Read More »Long burn predicted for Vegas
Bethesda believes Fallout: New Vegas has a long shelf life ahead of it, just like its predecessor. Fallout 3 became a chart regular for almost a year thanks to a string of DLC. and Bethesda hopes to do the same with New Vegas. We believe that through a combination of …
Read More »Kudo shrugs off Kinect criticism
The man behind Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect has shrugged off the less then enthusiastic response that the motion camera has received from some elements of the internet games community. Well, people on the internet are generally negative anyway so I try not to get too bent out of shape about …
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