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EA has canceled its annual collegiate American football title through at least next year. EA Sports’ Cam Weber confirmed the news in an EA blog post, stating that the publisher is evaluating our plan for the future of the franchise.” In related news, The New York Times reports that EA …
Read More »Valve wraps up week of reveals with Steam Controller unveiling
Valve’s hardware announcements last week concluded with the unveiling of a new controller optimized for Steam and Steam Machines devices. The wireless peripheral will work with all of Steam’s catalog released from here forward, and will include legacy support for past releases that lack gamepad support. Going against the traditional” …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 22-28
State of Decay made its mark in a big wayon the Steam charts last week, taking over the top spot from Total War: Rome II. Rome fell to fourth, behind the impressive runner-up finish of Early Access title Castle Story and the discount promo-fueled Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. …
Read More »Wargaming: Games industry should aim for $200bn annual revenue by 2016
Victor Kislyi of strategy developer Wargaming.net has spoken out on the game industry’s need for expansion, stating that the $75bn brought in annually isn’t nearly where it could be. VG247 reports on Kislyi’s talk at DICE Europe this week, where the CEO discussed the goal of $200bn in annual revenue …
Read More »Stardock opens mobile division
PC games and software developer Stardock has announced the launch of Stardock Mobile, a new division focusing on creating strategy titles for smartphones and tablets. "The goal at Stardock is to create great strategy games — whether that’s on a PC, phone or tablet," Stardock vice president Derek Paxton stated. …
Read More »3DS lifetime sales surpass Wii in Japan
Lifetime sales for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld have overtaken the company’s Wii console in Japan. Games Industry reports on the latest Media Create charts, which show 3DS sales totaling over 12.75m – compared to the Wii’s 12.7m units sold. The weekly charts also show that the 3DS is dominating the software …
Read More »Apple denies payoff for Plants vs Zombies 2 Android delay
Apple has swiftly denied a statement from Electronic Arts’ executive Frank Gibeau that the iOS device-maker paid EA to delay the Android release of Plants vs Zombies 2. Both Gibeau’s comment and Apple’s denial were reported by Giantbomb, which originally reported on an internal EA presentation today that contained Gibeau’s …
Read More »EA executives shake up management roles
A week after Andrew Wilson’s promotion to EA CEO, the company has made some management role tweaks to fill in the gaps. According to an internal memo leaked by an anonymous source to Venture Beat, EA Games label vice president Patrick Soderlund will become the head of EA Sports. The …
Read More »Halo, Destiny co-creator Joseph Staten leaves Bungie
Joseph Staten – co-creator and design director of the Halo and Destiny franchises – is leaving Bungie after 15 years at the company. Staten announced his exit in a post on Bungie.net, explaining that he’ll be taking on new creative challegnes outside of the AAA studio. After fifteen great years …
Read More »Microsoft: Don’t expect indies on Xbox One until early 2014
Microsoft doesn’t expect to see much of an indie game presence on Xbox One until sometime early next year. Speaking with Games Industry, Microsoft corportate vice president Phil Harrison explained that – despite an avalanche of interest” in the Independent Developers @ Xbox program – it’s unlikely many of the …
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