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More Games Made On iPhone Than Any Other Platform
Tweet According to a report by by the UK games industry trade association TIGA the iphone is now the most popular development platform in the UK.
Consoles Will Continue To Be “Gold Standard” – GameStop
Tweet While the smartphone boom shows no sign of waning, and more and more gamers are finding themselves playing games on said platform, mega games retailer GameStop believes consoles will continue to be the industry’s gold standard for the foreseeable… Read More »
Dead Island Goes Hollywood
Tweet Lionsgate has secured the rights to produce a Dead Island feature film from publisher Deep Silver.
The Deal We Had With Activision Was “Great, Had It Been Honored” – Vince Zampella
Tweet Speaking to Gamasutra, Vince Zampella said the deal he and Jason West signed with Activision was a great one, but the publisher, according to Zampella, didn’t honor the deal, which then led to events leading up to their dismissal…. Read More »
Confirmed: Visceral Games Australia Shuts Down
Tweet Over the weekend, Kotaku ran a rumor claiming Visceral Games AU, the Australian branch of the Dead Space developer, was to shut its doors come Monday. Well today’s come and gone and the closure has happened indeed.
Because Of Second Hand Game Sales, Heavy Rain Lost €10 million
Tweet According to Quantic Dream CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Heavy Rain has lost about €10 million to the second hand game sales market, adding the problem is the biggest facing the industry to date.
Future Consoles To Neglect Disc Format, Go All Digital – THQ Boss
Tweet According to THQ CEO Brian Farrell, in the not so distant future, videogames consoles will completely neglect the box and ship model and go all digital in an effort to better cater to gamers needs, and minimize production cost,… Read More »
Halo 4 Director Leaves 343 Industries For New Venture, Cites Lack Of Creative Excitement
Tweet 343 Industries creative director Ryan Payton has left the Halo team to form his own company dubbed Camouflaj. According to him, the excitement to build Halo games just wasn’t there any longer, and so he had to leave.
Square-Enix Unveils New Gaming Engine
Tweet SE’s revealed its new gaming engine dubbed Luminous, a machine built for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, and also next-gen consoles.
Sony Responds To Nintendo 3DS Launch Woes, Says Consumers Are Not Interested In Poor Quality 3D
Tweet As we all know by now, Nintendo’s 3DS hasn’t had a smooth launch at all. In fact things have played out so bad that the firm’s planning to relaunch the handheld console with less emphasis on 3D, all while… Read More »
Quick Quenchers: This Is What John Carmack Wants From Next Gen Consoles
Tweet “One of the most important things I would say is a unified virtual 64-bit address space, across both the GPU and the CPU. Not a partition space, like the PS3. Also, a full 64-bit space with virtualization on the… Read More »
Single-Player Campaign Will Die In 2014 – Industry Veteran
Tweet Come 2014, there won’t be games like Uncharted 3 and God of War 3, and if there is, said games won’t boast a single-player campaign because, well, veteran games consultant Mark Cerny said so.
UK Charts – You Guessed It
Tweet In the UK, Zumba Fitness is number one for the ninth straight week. What else is new? Hit the link for the full quencher.
Quick Quenchers: Sony And LG Settle Patent Fiasco
Tweet Remember back in February when custom officers all over Europe seized PS3s because of an injunction LG filed against Sony concerning patent disputes? See here for more on that. Well, the two firms have now arrived to a settlement,… Read More »
Team Bondi Assets Sold Off To KMM – Report
Tweet Everything belonging to Team Bondi, including the studio’s IPs, have been sold off to KMM (Kennedy Miller Mitchell).
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