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News: Cage: Move needs core games for long-term success

Salat — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:11:13 +0000

Heavy Rain director David Cage has said that Sony’s motion controller Move needs to have the support of all software genres for it to add any significant length to the lifecycle of the PlayStation 3.

“It really depends on the software because the hardware works really well,” Cage told GamesIndustry.biz.

“If it’s only about casual entertainment and casual games I don’t think it’s going to play a big role in the life of the console. If it can get more support from triple-A titles then that will be interesting.”

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News: Full list of speakers issued for MIGS

Salat — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:10:19 +0000

The full list of speakers has been released for November’s Montreal International Games Summit, with Ryan Challinor, Craig Morrison and many other luminaries giving talks on various areas of the videogames business.

The full list, available at the summit’s website, brings together more than 80 industry figures to join Ed Fries and Ron Carmel, who will be providing the main keynotes for the event.

Neville Page will be speaking on creative character development from his perspective as an industry designer in the arts and visual effects field, while industry veteran Richard Borenstein will give an address on monetisation and accessing the virtual wallet. They’ll be joined by Rafael Chandler, a writer who has worked on SOCOM, MAG, U-Wars and Rainbow Six: Lockdown as he gives a speech on narrative.

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News: Bethesda chooses Benelux for fifth international office

Salat — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:08:51 +0000

Zenimax Media-owned publisher Bethesda is expanding further into Europe by opening an office in Eindhoven, intended to oversee its business in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

The office is the fifth international centre of operations in addition to London and Tokyo, as well as the Paris and Frankfurt offices which the company opened earlier this year. The company’s home office is in Rockville, Maryland USA.

Heading up the new office will be territory general manager Menno Eijck who previously worked in the same position for Namco Bandai Partners Benelux.

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News: EA commits to Eurogamer Expo

Salat — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:10:09 +0000

Medal of Honor publisher Electronic Arts has confirmed its commitment to this year’s Eurogamer Expo, taking place October 1-3, at Earls Court in London.

FIFA 11, Crysis 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Dead Space 2 and the latest Medal of Honor will all be hands-on for consumers at the show.

Tickets for Saturday October 2 have now sold out, but tickets for Friday and Sunday are still available at the official website.

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News: PSP rules Japanese software and hardware charts

Salat — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:08:43 +0000

Sony’s PSP handheld shot to the top of the Japanese hardware chart last week, as well as taking the top two places in the software chart.

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Diary sits firmly at number one with 256,000 sales, followed by Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat X2: Joint Assault at two with 58,000. A third new PSP title, Hakuouki: Zuisouroku Portable, took fifth place with 24,000 sales.

The PSP itself sold 55,112 units compared to the 27,554 which saw it take second place last week. Sony also took the second place in the hardware chart with the PS3 shifting 24,053 units. All hardware platforms saw slight reductions in their sales figures, apart from the PSP and the PSPgo, which crept up from 631 to 836.

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News: 93% of Take-Two Q3 sales on PS3 and 360 – Wii just 1%

Salat — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:09:15 +0000

Sales for Take-Two’s most recent quarter were dominated by the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 – amounting to 93 per cent of the publisher’s revenues, up from 44 per cent last year.

49 Per cent of revenue was from Xbox 360 games, 44 from PlayStation 3 titles, compared to 32 and 12 per cent respectively for the same period in 2009.

Wii revenues plummeted from 16 per cent for the quarter ending July 31 last year to 1 per cent in the most recent quarter – a marginal figure also claimed by PSP and DS, down from 10 and 4 per cent respectively. PC dropped from 14 to 4 per cent.

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News: Bethesda confirmed for UK’s largest game expo

Salat — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:08:40 +0000

Publisher Bethesda has announced it will present its portfolio of upcoming games at the 2010 Eurogamer Expo in London next month.

The Earl’s Court event is the UK’s largest consumer games show, and now adds Bethesda titles RAGE, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Fallout: New Vegas and Brink to its roster of publicly-showcased games.

In attendance will be id Software creative director Tim Willits, plus inXile game director Maxx Kaufman and president Matt Findley.

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News: Project MyWorld snapped up by US company: report

Salat — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:09:32 +0000

It has been alleged that an American firm has this week purchased Project MyWorld from the administrators of Realtime Worlds.

The report by Develop did not name the mystery firm, but if it is indeed American, earlier suggestion that Realtime World’s Dundee-based bosses Dave Jones and Ian Hetherington were planning on buying the social game back would appear unfounded.

Also alleged is that Realtime World’s other title, the commercially unsuccessful MMO APB, is not part of the deal, leaving its fate unknown.

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News: Rare: Kinect does work in small lounges

Salat — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:09:39 +0000

Kinect Sports developer Rare has played down worries about the size of room required by upcomin Xbox 360 motion controller Kinect.

In July online shop Amazon revealed Kinect requires six feet of space between the player and their television, fueling much debate as to its effectiveness in small rooms.

However, Rare’s senior software engineer Nick Burton said the issue has been blown out of proportion.

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News: Gearbox to release Duke Nukem Forever in 2011

Salat — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:08:52 +0000

Gearbox Software has confirmed recent rumour that it would complete development on long-delayed shooter Duke Nukem Forever, following last year’s closure of original developer 3D Realms.

The reborn game was unveiled at the PAX conference today, with Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford confirming release to the Wall Street Journal.

“Clearly the game hadn’t been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created,” he said.

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