Tag Archives: ip

Capcom believes it has found itself another major IP in the form of Dragon’s Dogma. The publisher has now shipped one million copies of the RPG – the 55th Capcom title to do so. The game has been a particular success in Japan, where its week one unit sales of …

A report has claimed Nintendo has now acquired co-ownership status of Tecmo Koei’s horror IP Fatal Frame. Rely On Horror reports that Nintendo has recently changed its copyright status to confirm the move and at the same time has fully acquired Fatal Frame’s spin-off IP Spirit Photography. It now has …

Giving up on new IP can mean your studio 'dies' creatively, claims Frank Gibeau

Internet search and services firm Yahoo is suing social networking king Facebook, accusing it of ten patent breaches. "Yahoo’s patents relate to cutting edge innovations in online products, including in messaging, news feed generation, social commenting, advertising display, preventing click fraud and privacy controls," the lawsuit claims. "Facebook’s entire social …

Platform holders traditionally rule their domains with an iron fist. But the market is changing. These are challenging times. So the admission from Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida that the company would consider using social platforms such as Facebook as a platform for its own IP is a striking …

Development legend and current Nintendo senior MD Shigeru Miyamoto has said that finding a new, big-hitting IP is the solution” to Nintendo’s current financial troubles. Earlier this month Nintendo scrapped its profit forecasts, saying it now expected to post a loss for the current financial year. So perhaps it’s no …

With its 2012 release state still mostly under wraps, Microsoft has said that it is focusing on the quality of possible new IPs as opposed to the quantity. "I do think that it’s [about] quality and impact, not number of releases in a year," corporate VP of Microsoft Game Studios …

The names of nine publishers have been released in conjunction with claims that a fresh spate of anti-piracy lawsuits has emerged across Europe. The practise, which has been bullied out of court on numerous occasions, sees publishers contacting internet users with claims that their IP address has been used to …

Ubisoft’s powerhouse Just Dance series has now reached the 25m global unit sales barrier. The IP was propelled through this milestone by the success of Just Dance 3, which itself has now passed the 7m unit sales barrier. Ubisoft reckons that people” globally spend a collection 23m minutes playing Just …

Yu Suzuki has hinted at a possible move to acquire the rights to the Shenmue franchise from Sega. And of course, the only reason he would make such a move would be to finally get to work on the long demanded Shenmue III. "Shenmue’slicense is an IP that belongs to …