Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has described the company’s falling share price following the announcement of their Wii successor as very strange.” Honestly speaking, the reaction to [Tuesday’s] presentation and what I heard from people I met and the mood of the convention did not chime at all with what happened …
Read More »E3 2011: EA refining Kinect for FIFA 13
EA has said Kinect support won’t be added to FIFA until FIFA 13 at the earliest. The company has been working on incorporating the motion sensor into the game for some time. Now the publisher has assured Eurogamer at E3 that it doesn’t wish to tack on Kinect support. What …
Read More »E3 2011: uDraw boss ‘unsurprised’ by Wii U
Martin Good, executive VP of THQ’s kids, family and casual games label, isn’t shaken by Nintendo’s newly announced Wii U. The uDraw series hasn’t been around for a whole year yet, but the capabilities and functions of the Wii U controller could displace THQ’s purpose-built tablet if Nintendo was to …
Read More »E3 shows renewed focus
Nintendo’s third-party Wii U sizzle vid was packed with more blood, gore and aggression than a Rockstar game. Its first-party 3DS line-up was a range of fan-pleasers, not granny-ticklers. Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect range was also focused on the core, demoing how things like most talked about E3 game Mass Effect …
Read More »E3 2011: EA ‘actively’ preparing Mirror’s Edge 2
EA Games president Frank Gibeau has once again stated that Mirror’s Edge 2 hasn’t been killed.” We’re actively looking at how to bring it back in the right way,” he told GTTV. We love that franchise. The DICE guys really created something, I think, special the first time around. You’ve …
Read More »E3 2011: Why Twisted Metal isn’t a hit in Europe
Outspoken American developer David Jaffe says differing cultural identity is the reason for Twisted Metal’s limited appeal in Europe. Speaking to Eurogamer at E3, the co-founder of Eat Sleep Play and co-creator of the franchise said: My layman’s sociological view of Europe is that you guys tend to respond to …
Read More »E3 2011: Carmack: Creativity more important than graphics
Genius development engineer John Carmack has admitted that Rage has taken his studio longer than he would have liked, and put the delay down to its drive for top tier technology and tools. That’s the biggest thing when we look back on this generation,” said the co-founder of id Software, …
Read More »E3 2011: Xbox Live ‘too closed’ for Dust 514
Xbox Live is too closed for the developer of PS3 exclusive Dust 514. Speaking to Eurogamer during an E3 presentation, CCP CTO Halldor Fannar said: Let’s just say that with Sony at least they have policies that allow us to build the game the way we want.” That is one …
Read More »E3 2011: Final Fantasy series exceeds 100m units
Square Enix has revealed its Final Fantasy series has surpassed 100 million units worldwide. We are extremely proud of what the Final Fantasy franchise has achieved over the years and continue to be extremely excited about the future. I would like thank all of our fans, partners and development teams …
Read More »EA: New Medal Of Honor due 2012
EA studios Danger Close and DICE are both locked in a project rotation cycle that mirrors how Activision releases games from Treyarch and Infinity Ward. Electronic Arts will "continue to follow our rotation strategy,” said games boss Frank Gibeau. "In general, we’re giving studios a full two-year cycle to get …
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