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Brian Greenstone, CEO for Pangea Software – the iPhone games studio working on content for the iPad – has told Develop that the iPad 3D chip is a mobile chip, and not really designed for such a high resolution screen.” That means it’s a little bit fill rate limited – …
Read More »PlayStation division posts $889m loss
Sony’s Network Product and Services Division, the home of its PlayStation operations, has reported a $889m loss for the year ending March 31st 2010, a year-on-year decrease of 10.2 per cent. PS3 sales hit a total of 13m units, up from the 10.3m seen in the same period the year …
Read More »OnLive hitting all UK ISPs
Streaming games service OnLive will be available over any UK ISP, founder and CEO Steve Perlman has confirmed. BT’s deal with the firm, which will see the UK telcoms firm investing in the games service, grants it exclusive rights to bundle OnLive with their broadband service, but non-BT customers will …
Read More »Reviews more important than price
Consumers are more likely to base their buying decisions on review scores than on price, a new Moving Minds report from branding specialist Kinetic claims. The study suggests that 71 per cent of those asked thought review scores were an important element of deciding which titles they should buy. By …
Read More »Bethesda taking its time over MMO plans
It’s over two years since Bethesda’s path into the MMO sector began to take shape, but with no imminent sign of activity on the horizon MCV asked global VP or marketing Pete Hines when exactly the first fruits of its ambitions will be revealed. It was something we felt like …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Bethesda
Bethesda’s upcoming release slate is brimming with promising new IP, not to mention the sequel to its 2008 smash hit, Fallout 3. MCV speaks to Bethesda’s marketing boss Pete Hines to discuss the company’s line-up, digital downloads and its MMO ambitions… Fallout: New Vegas and Brink are Bethesda’s big titles …
Read More »EAs Online Pass is too cheap
All publishers will eventually adopt the model being pioneered by EA that sees those who either buy pre-owned versions of its games or pirate them punished by locking them away from key features. That’s the belief of MCV readers’ favourite Michael Pachter, who added that in his mind the $10 …
Read More »Pre-owned DLC penalty entirely fair
It seems as if every day a new publisher jumps aboard the in-box DLC code bandwagon, and industry analysts have given their full backing to the new payment model. Games such as Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins lock pre-owned buyers out of accessing additional content online, whereas upcoming …
Read More »ODST beats Reach on XBL
It might have enjoyed some eye-watering user numbers in its first week of release, but the hyped Halo Reach beta has failed to topple FPS favourite Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and, perhaps more surprisingly, Halo ODST from the top of the Xbox Live Online Play listings. By default …
Read More »Move ‘could reinvent shooter genre’
Elliot Martin, producer of the upcoming Move-ready SOCOM title, has told Develop he believes the new peripheral will bring about huge change” to the shooter genre. With the Move controller what it allows us to do with SOCOM is have the player basically point at enemies on screen with Move …
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