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Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have each issued statements ahead of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, set to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 2-4. Of the three, it was Microsoft’s Don Mattrick, senior vice president of the firm’s Interactive Entertainment Business, who made the most daring …
Read More »ESA challenges pathological addiction study
The Entertainment Software Association has hit back at a contentious study which recently concluded that 8.5 percent of young gamers are pathologically addicted to their hobby. In an open letter, ESA CEO Michael Gallagher claims that the study was based on flawed methodology”, and has asked science journal Psychological Science …
Read More »Midway delisted from NYSE
US publisher Midway has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after failing to meet regulations. The firm was warned last November that it needed an average closing price of $1.00 per share over 30 consecutive trading days. The market’s regulatory board has now decided that Midway’s stock should …
Read More »E3 to return in 2009
Despite vocal disappointment over this year’s E3 from some high profile members of the global industry, the ESA has confirmed to MCV that the show will definitely go ahead again in 2009. However, the organisation was unable to answer questions on whether the size or location of the show would …
Read More »Yet another publisher leaves ESA, says report
Reliable news source Gamepolitics.com is reporting that US publisher Crave Entertainment is the latest games firm to withdraw its membership of the Entertainment Software Association. California-based Crave is behind titles such as World Championship Poker featuring Howard Lederer and Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection. While the company is …
Read More »Two more publishers leaving ESA?
The head of US gamers’ consumers group the Entertainment Consumers Association has said that he knows of two more games companies that are planning to leave US publisher body the Entertainment Software Association. Hal Halpin told the Washington Post that a duo of firms were set to join Activision, Vivendi …
Read More »E3 organiser in shocking spat with news site
It’s the cattiest ding-dong between two games companies for years – the sort of old-fashioned, furious set-to that would have messrs Riccitiello and Zelnick cowering in their board room. In the red corner, the Entertainment Software Association; US publisher body and organiser of E3. In the blue corner, games news …
Read More »id leaves the Entertainment Software Association
Developer follows Activision, Vivendi and LucasArts out of the door
Read More »ID pulls out of the ESA
Doom developer id Software has left the Entertainment Software Association, joining the recent departures of Activision, Vivendi, and LucasArts. A representative from the company told Next-Gen.biz that it had opted to not renew its membership with the ESA, which organises the E3 expo. Id declined to comment further. In an …
Read More »$5m cost for E3 to quit LA
The Entertainment Software Association paid over $5 million last year to move its annual expo from Los Angeles to Santa Monica – only to bring the show back to the city’s Convention Center for this year. That’s according to IRS documents obtained by games news blog Kotaku, which show that …
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