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Valve has hired economics professor Yanis Varufakis, who will be helping the games company navigate the labyrinth of digital economies. Varufakis, a native of Athens, has become well known for mixing labyrinths and economics as an influential commenter on the Euro Zone Crisis, and author of "The Globabl Minotaur". It …
Read More »‘Xbox Live streaming’ tablet unveiled tomorrow?
No, we don’t think so either. But the latest rumour about tomorrow’s expected Microsoft ‘iPad rival’ unveiling says the new device is an ereader table that ‘streams Xbox Live’. [UPDATE: TechCrunch, via Twitter, has clarified to the author of this piece what it means but ‘Xbox Live streaming’ – apparently, …
Read More »‘Leaked’ and dubious document claims to outline future Xbox roadmap
Microsoft’s Xbox roadmap includes the 2013 launch a $299 Xbox 360 successor and Kinect 2, convincing-looking (but dubious) documents posted online claim. Uncorroborated as genuine, presentation slides from a purported August 2010 meeting posted to Scribd suggest the format holder’s roadmap for its home console were once projected to include: …
Read More »Humble Bundle V sales reach $5m
The Humble Indie Bundle V has finally screeched to a halt, raising $5.1 million and selling almost 600,000 bundles. The package defied tradition by gathering some of the highest profile indie titles of recent years, even going so far as to include Pyschonauts, a title from Tim Schafer’s studio Double …
Read More »Fruit Ninja merchandise incoming
Australian studio Half Brick has licensed several companies to begin producing consumer products for its bestselling casual franchise Fruit Ninja. With over 300 million downloads on iPhone, iPad, and Android, Fruit Ninja is one of the best selling games in mobile history, and has been released for a variety of …
Read More »EA’s Intat: "Gamescom is a pillar for our industry"
Electronic Arts says it will be out ‘in force’ at Gamescom this August. Less than 24 hours after Microsoft confirmed it wouldn’t be attending the German trade show or the Tokyo Game Show, EA has issued a confident statement underlining the importance of Gamescom. And it has confirmed it will …
Read More »Wii U beats 3DS for day one value
Nintendo may not be prepared to talk about the Wii U price yet, but when it arrives later this year it will have a stronger day one offer than the 3DS launch, Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton told MCV. One of the problems with 3DS was content. When we launched …
Read More »Xbox holds firm on price
Microsoft’s comfortable lead over the competition means it’s not ready to cut Xbox prices yet. The firm went all out on current-gen demos at E3 last week – so no next-gen talk, and no price drop for 360. The success we enjoy year-on-year encourages us to think we’re competitively priced …
Read More »‘Bored gamers need fresh ideas’
The current downturn in the sales of boxed games has been caused by boring content and no innovation. That’s according to Ubisoft’s Alain Corre, who says the market is desperate for new ideas – and if it doesn’t get it, spending on video games will continue to fall. Currently, the …
Read More »‘Final Clearance Sale’ happening at GAME Australia
Today, a massive sale which began earlier this week on selected titles has become what the web site is calling a ‘Final Clearance’ sale. The sale is explicitly pasted on the front of GAME’s Australian web site, and constitutes 60% off the marked price off the already heavily-discounted range from …
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