Sony’s throwing its weight behind the upcoming PS3 3D update in June by confirming that popular FPS title Killzone 2 will be patched to support 3D in the same month. As spotted by Gamer Access in the latest edition of PSN series Qore, the move adds triple-A credentials to the …
Read More »GoW III sold 1m in week one
We don’t know in what region and we don’t know the exact timeframe, but SCEA’s VP or marketing Peter Dille has stated that God of War III passed the 1m unit sales barrier in just a couple of days”. The news comes courtesy of IGN reporting from the North American …
Read More »Chinatown Wars suffered due to piracy
Rampant piracy is the real reason for GTA: Chinatown Wars’ slow sales according to Take-Two CEO Ben Feder. On paper, Chinatown Wars should have been a massive success when it launched on the Nintendo DS a year ago. GTA remains one of the most successful game franchises of all time, …
Read More »New U-Sing to take on SingStar
Karaoke hit U-Sing returns this year in Girls Night for Wii, Mindscape has announced. The firm is confident its singing franchise – developed in partnership with Universal Music – can compete with Sony’s SingStar and Microsoft’s Lips franchise as the market’s most popular karaoke game. We have all the ingredients: …
Read More »DLC goes mainstream with £1m MW2 push
Activision put a mammoth marketing campaign behind the launch of Modern Warfare 2 DLC. 1m is being spent to promote the downloadable Stimulus Package, which adds a host of new multiplayer maps to the world’s fastest-selling game. The publisher has made the investment to spearhead a marketing campaign that targets …
Read More »Let’s prove Government right
Alistair Darling’s Budget was a landmark moment for the games industry – but UK studios most show they are worth the 90m invested in them. That’s the message from industry bosses who say the UK has to promote itself as a global force in order to beef up its studios …
Read More »Codies: Turning Point is behind us
With the hype train slowly getting into gear ahead of the arrival of Codemasters’ action-packed FPS Bodycount early next year, Codemasters has said that the failure of its most recent FPS Turning Point has been forgotten. Upon its release in March 2008, Spark Unlimited’s shooter debuted at no.17 in the …
Read More »Sony gives PSPgo an Easter boost
A routine Bank Holiday sale or an effort to encourage struggling hardware sales – call it what you want, but PSPgo owners old and new will be greeted with some significant discounts the next time they log into the PSN Store. Several high-profile titles have seen their prices slashed on …
Read More »No 3D or motion could hurt OnLive
Though many think that cloud gaming could be the dominant force in the next generation of gaming, one analyst has predicted that the failure of services such as OnLive to embrace modern gaming trends could leave them floundering. What OnLive will not do, at least not at this point, is …
Read More »Natal games will surprise
With Sony having dealt its first major hand in the motion control battle by revealing some of its debut Move software offerings, the industry is patiently waiting for Microsoft to do the same – and Xbox director of product management Aaron Greenberg has promised that Natal’s games won’t disappoint. The …
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