A closer look at last week’s NPD results for the North American video games market courtesy of Gamasutra has revealed that Activision’s brand new racing IP Blur sold just 31,000 units across Xbox 360 and PS3 in its first five days on the market. Other games that performed less well …
Read More »The end is nigh for Eye of Judgement
Three years after it debuted on PS3, Sony has confirmed that it is to pull the plug on the online services connected to card battling title The Eye of Judgement. The game works by using the PSEye to scan real-life cards that are placed on a real deck. These are …
Read More »Will Kinect and Move arrive too late?
A succession of poorly-received software releases for the Nintendo Wii could have a negative impact on the success of the soon-to-be-launched Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move, according to one UK retail boss. Market results for the last two quarters have seen Wii sales severely decline,” ShopTo CEO Igor Cipolletta …
Read More »NPD: PS3 sales grow once again
Though the PS3 continued to lag behind Xbox 360 in both the April and May markets in the US, Sony’s machine is on a remarkable run that has seen it post its ninth and tenth consecutive months of year-on-year sales growth in North America. Since May 2009 the PS3 has …
Read More »Develop Conference adds Sony 3D talk
Mick Hocking to talk through history of 3D - and what it means for games
Read More »Final Fantasy XIV dated
Square Enix has announced that the PC Collector’s Edition version of MMO Final Fantasy XIV will be released in Europe on September 22nd. The standard SKU will hit retail on September 30th. The PS3 version of the game will not be released until March 2011, with pricing to be announced …
Read More »Sony making money on PS3 at last
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has stated that Sony is at last making money on each and every PS3 console that it sells. This year is the first time that we are able to cover the cost of the PlayStation 3,” the exec told IGN. We aren’t making huge …
Read More »Expect more PS3 HD Collections
Publisher Sony has stated that it will likely release further HD remakes of past classics for PS3 in the coming years. The only HD Collections confirmed to date are the already released God of War Collection and the recently announced Sly Cooper Collection, the latter of which will also support …
Read More »Dance Central heading for PS3?
Harmonix’s motion-sensitive music title Dance Central could be heading to the PS3. Many believed the game to be exclusive to the Xbox 360 but the developer’s co-founder Alex Rigopulos claims it is possible to bring the game to PlayStation Move, according to Kotaku. Rigopulos also said there was no chance …
Read More »Studio Ghibli confirms PS3 title
The tie-up between acclaimed Japanese developer Level 5 and cult anime house Studio Ghibli is one of the more interesting releases on the 2010 calendar, and now a PS3 version of the game has been confirmed. Andriasang reports that details of the console version of Ni no Kuni: The Another …
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