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The era of motion controllers could snap shut as quickly as it has blown open, one of the world’s biggest publishers has warned. The comments echo those made by Sega’s Mike hayes earlier this year. Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto has welcomed the arrival of both Sony’s PlayStation Move and Microsoft’s …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V for E3?
Rockstar may be preparing to steal the show at next month’s E3 Expo in LA with the first news on next-gen sequel Grand Theft Auto V. That’s according to EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnish, who made the prediction to Games Informer. I think we’re going to hear about another Grand Theft …
Read More »NPD: DS sales fall 600k year-on-year
At first glance it might seem as if Nintendo’s hardware was the star performer in the somewhat disappointing US April video games market, but a quick look back to this time last year paints a far from happy picture for the Kyoto firm. The headline figures show that Nintendo enjoyed …
Read More »PlayStation division posts $889m loss
Sony’s Network Product and Services Division, the home of its PlayStation operations, has reported a $889m loss for the year ending March 31st 2010, a year-on-year decrease of 10.2 per cent. PS3 sales hit a total of 13m units, up from the 10.3m seen in the same period the year …
Read More »ASA rejects Heavy Rain complaints
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected complaints about a Sony advert for recent PS3 hit Heavy Rain. The BBC reports that the objections stemmed from the depiction of a level in the game where two-sided detective Scott Shelby intervenes (or not, depending on the choices made by the player) …
Read More »Walmart confirms pre-owned plans
As claimed by MCV just last week, US retailer Walmart has confirmed that it is to have a second stab at cracking the pre-owned video games market. Walmart is always looking for new ways to help give customers more convenience and savings, and we continually test concepts with new products …
Read More »Sony faces more OtherOS lawsuits
PlayStation 3 platform holder Sony is facing up to a further two legal challenges to its decision to remove the ability to install alternative operating systems from the console. OtherOS functionality, which allowed PS3 owners to install the likes of Linux, was removed from the PS3 in last month’s firmware …
Read More »Ape Escape swings onto PS3
The new PS3 Move-compatible Ape Escape will hit retail before the end of the year, Sony has announced. An official Tweet by ApeClub, the franchise’s digital arm, said: Ape Escape’s PS3 release date is now Q2 – Q4 2010.” The IP originally kicked off on the PlayStation in 1999 with …
Read More »LBP2 to support Move at a later date
LittleBigPlanet 2 will offer limited support for the PlayStation Move controller at launch with fuller, expanded support planned for later down the line. We’re really excited by giving the Move controller to the community,” Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healy told VG247. We’re totally going to go to town on supporting …
Read More »Natal and Move wont save retail
Though Sony and, in particular, Microsoft are selling their upcoming motion sensing controllers as brand new console platforms, one analyst has said that the motion revolution will not get retail out of its current hole. Specifically, only a brand new generation of machines will be enough to reverse retail’s dwindling …
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