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See how the mobile phone can ‘wave, speak, scan or photograph’ to discover content – and explore the ramifications for publishers and content providers at the ME-hosted conference. ‘Monetising Mobile: Next Gen Search and Discovery‘ takes place on Wednesday September 28th at the Soho Hotel in central London. There’s a …
Read More »Editor of Official Playstation Mag moves to IGN AU
Luke Reilly, editor and mainstay of Australian Official Playstation Magazine for 8 years, jumped ship to yesterday become the games editor at IGN Australia. Reilly told MCV: "It’s with much sadness I leave a magazine I’ve been some part of since late 2003. It’s actually over 90 issues, from freelancer …
Read More »Rugby World Cup releases early
Rugby World Cup 2011 is now being sold at all major retailers in Australia and New Zealand, before its official release date. Tuff Kat Entertainment, local distributors of the game, have confirmed to MCV that the official release date is still Thursday 25th August. Regardless, EB Games, GAME and JB …
Read More »Halfbrick was ‘teetering on the edge’ before Fruit Ninja
Speaking at Freeplay 2011, Luke Muscat, lead designer and executive producer at Halfbrick, talked about the lessons learned which led to Fruit Ninja’s creation. The team at Halfbrick looked at Rocket Racing, their previous and unsuccessful title, and other casual games achieving big success. Muscat comments: "Fruit Ninja was a …
Read More »UKIE endorses London Games Conference
UKIE members will get a ten per cent discount on a full price ticket to the London Games Conference. The games trade organisation has signed on as an official partner of the November 10th event which looks at new digital business models for games publishers, retailers and developers. Keynotes at …
Read More »TouchPad prices plummet in US
Following its surprise discontinuation last week, HP’s ‘fire sale’ of TouchPad tablets resulted in brisk sales and rapid selling out of stock over the weekend in the United States. Following the announcement of a withdrawal from WebOS powered hardware, HP again cut the price of the TouchPad to an astonishing …
Read More »Freeplay 2012 confirmed after a successful festival this weekend
Freeplay 2011, the independent games festival held annual in Melbourne, has drawn to a successful close and plans are afoot for Freeplay 2012. The festival ran from Wednesday 17th to Sunday 21st August, and played host to hands-on time with various titles, speeches from leading local developers, panel discussions, workshops …
Read More »THQ announces Saints Row: The Third exclusives
THQ has announced the Australian and New Zealand retailers for its Saints Row: The Third ‘Maximum Pleasure’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ editions. JB HiFi will be carrying the ‘Maximum Pleasure Edition’, which will feature the game, a Professor Genki stuntman key-ring, hyper-replica head and a banner pen, and will retail for …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Andrew Wilson, EA Sports
The new EA Sports president has an ambitious plan to have all the label’s games run as connected cross-platform experiences. But, he tells Michael French, that means some tough decisions for retailers, publishers and console manufacturers During your Develop conference keynote last month you said customers had lost interest in …
Read More »Onlive looks to exclusive deals
OnLive has acknowledged that exclusive content deals will help tempt more consumers to its cloud gaming service. Currently OnLive, which officially launches in the UK on September 22nd, streams PC games from its data servers – and all are either available as standalone PC or multiformat console games too. But …
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