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Development staff at Warner Bros’ new Montreal outfit are said to be angered at management’s decision to shift the studio’s focus to social and mobile games. Yet Warner Bros Montreal’s existing 26 employees are, according to Canadian newspaper Lapressaffaires, being told to work on bite-sized mobile/social games and a microtransaction-based …
Read More »Google TV gets dedicated games
The upcoming Google TV platform is poised to welcome dedicated games functionality – a move that could enable the platform to squarely rival dedicated consoles such as Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Google TV is a software platform that will come included in the innards of some new TVs or …
Read More »Square Enix on bringing West to the East
The three men in charge of Square Enix have told MCV that the company’s new global agenda is not merely leveraging Eastern properties in Europe and the US – it’s about returning fire with Western games that can break into the Japanese market. I think today, [releasing Square Enix Europe’s …
Read More »150m users for Bigpoint
Bigpoint, the games portal site and developer, has reached 150m registered users, an expansion of fifty per cent on the 100m users it had in January of this year. The firm, which is seeing a daily new user registration of around 250,000, ascribes its growth to an increasing number of …
Read More »Why Molyneux always buys his own games
The staff at GAME in Guildford will serve a rather surprising customer on Friday, October 29th. They may not know who he is, but you will. It’s development legend Peter Molyneux, and he is there to buy his own video game, Fable III. Molyneux performs this ritual every time one …
Read More »X-Factor firm buys mobile dev
Canadian mobile game studio Ludia says it will sell a controlling 51 per cent share of the company to RTL Group, said to be Europe’s largest television and radio broadcast company. RTL division FremantleMedia will benefit from the takeover, with the firm now owning 80 per cent of Ludia. Financial …
Read More »Endemol opens games division
The UK arm of Big Brother and Deal or No Deal creator Endemol has announced the formation of Endemol Games, a new division tasked with taking the company’s many properties into the games space. The unit will be headed by former head of products and brand exploitation Jurian Van der …
Read More »Nintendo: We cant blame piracy for DS drops
In a frank admission to investors, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has conceded that the platform holder cannot lay the blame for weak DS software sales solely at the feet of internet pirates. Iwata has previously spoken about the endless battle” the firm faces trying to shut down the world’s many …
Read More »You thought Kinect didnt need peripherals?
Kinect’s success in allowing users to play games with nothing other than their body is a remarkable technical achievement and a significant milestone in the history of gaming. So quite why you’d want to buy an inflatable boat to stand in as you do is, if MCV is being honest, …
Read More »Tesco UK’s non-food profits up 2.5%
Tesco’s non-food sales for H1 2010 have increased 2.5 per cent year-on-year in the UK. The supermarket giant made 4.4bn in non-food for the 26 weeks ending August 28th, 2010. The firm says the growth in non-food is slowing because the ‘important’ electrical and entertainment categories struggled during the second …
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