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Funcom CEO Resigns Before The Secret World Launch

Funcom CEO Resigns Before The Secret World Launch

Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas resigned recently, right before launch of pay-to-play MMO The Secret World. Foreshadowing? Not quite. As recently reported, Aas wasn't very big on the whole responsibili... Read More

Nintendo: ‘PS4/Xbox 720 Might Not Offer Full Generational Leaps’

Nintendo: ‘PS4/Xbox 720 Might Not Offer Full Generational Leaps’

The Wii U is being accused of, at best, being a very moderate and incremental bump over the current generation of systems. Having already defended the Wii U's power, Nintendo expressed its belief th... Read More

Pachter: Xbox and PS3 Price Cuts Will Depend on Wii U Price, Price Cut for PS Vita Not Likely in 2012

Pachter: Xbox and PS3 Price Cuts Will Depend on Wii U Price, Price Cut for PS Vita Not Likely in 2012

Oh Michael Pachter. I see you are at it again, trolling everyone with your inane predictions, aren't you? Anyway, Michael Pachter, coming off a string of gloriously inaccurate predictions regardi... Read More

38 Studios officially bankrupt

38 Studios officially bankrupt

Curt Schilling created 38 Studios, developers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning have officially declared bankruptcy after several reports about the same. The studio has gone ahead and officially file... Read More

E3 2012: Yoshida: PS Vita Missing From E3 Conference Was A Mistake In Hindsight, NO PS Vita Pricecut Coming

E3 2012: Yoshida: PS Vita Missing From E3 Conference Was A Mistake In Hindsight, NO PS Vita Pricecut Coming

Oh Sony. Why did you leave your handheld out to die? At its E3 conference this year, Sony decided that not focusing on its PS Vita console, which is totally struggling in the market as it fails to e... Read More

E3 2012: Crysis 3 Gameplay Demo

E3 2012: Crysis 3 Gameplay Demo

EA showed off some pretty sweet gameplay footage of Crysis 3 during their E3 conference earlier today. It looks really good. The visuals of the game, as expected, were really good. The textures were ... Read More

Nintendo Announces A Nintendo Direct For Tomorrow, Will Focus On Wii U Hardware

Nintendo Announces A Nintendo Direct For Tomorrow, Will Focus On Wii U Hardware

Three Nintendo shows in three days. Oh my. In order to handle the Wii U unveil properly this time- people were confused last year, after all- Nintendo is talking about it across three conferences... Read More

Little King’s Story Sequel Hits Vita Via PSN This Summer

Little King’s Story Sequel Hits Vita Via PSN This Summer

While the PS Vita lacks in system selling games, every small announcement helps. The sequel to the Wii breakout cult hit, Little King's Story, is hitting the PS Vita in the west this summer over PSN... Read More

Report: PS4 Coming 2013

Report: PS4 Coming 2013

Nintendo is all set to kickstart the next generation when its Wii U launches later this year, and it is going to have no competition from either Sony or Microsoft, both of whom are still sitting pre... Read More

21m gamers in UK according to ISFE

21m gamers in UK according to ISFE

A new survey  by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe, named GameTrack, has revealed that 21m people have played a game of some description in the past 12 months, an impressive 37% of the to... Read More

E3 still relevant argue ESA

E3 still relevant argue ESA

Following on from an opinion piece of annual criticism about the relevancy of E3 by GamesIndustry international, organisers the Entertainment Software Assosciation have hit back. The GamesIndustry ... Read More

Pirates games not lost sales, DRM ‘does not work’ – CD Projekt RED

Pirates games not lost sales, DRM ‘does not work’ – CD Projekt RED

Digital rights management (DRM to you and I) has always been a thorny issue for games, embodied by Diablo III's insistance of an always-on-internet connection, rending the game virtually unplayable fo... Read More

Activision planned fake fire drill to hack Infinity Ward computers

Activision planned fake fire drill to hack Infinity Ward computers

In what is slowly descending into farce, court documents today revealed that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick ordered the hacking of Jason West and Jason Zampella's computers. West and Zampella are for... Read More

Kingdoms of Amalur developer on edge of insolvency

Kingdoms of Amalur developer on edge of insolvency

The studio that brought us the surprise package Kingdoms of Amalur, Studio 38, are currently in talks with Rhode Island officials as the company struggles to stay afloat. Having previously been on ... Read More

Japanese games cannot ignore multiplayer- Bleszinski

Japanese games cannot ignore multiplayer- Bleszinski

Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, creator of Gears of War, says Japanese games shouldn't be ignoring multiplayer, citing games like Vanquish as an example for how lacking multiplayer can hurt their sale... Read More

UK sees 33.2% drop in April game sales

UK sees 33.2% drop in April game sales

The UK retail games market has seen a sharp decline of sales in what has been a tough April for many retailers. Compared to April 2011, 33.2% fewer games were sold, seeing just over 2m games sold i... Read More

GAME Australia files for administration

GAME Australia files for administration

Just over seven weeks after GAME Group plc. filed for voluntary administration in the United Kingdom, GAME Australia is doing the same. Pricewater Coopers, the administrator, have stated that all 9... Read More

xaitControl For Unity Now Spreads To Mobile Platforms

xaitControl For Unity Now Spreads To Mobile Platforms

xaitment have announced that its xaitControl for Unity plug-in now supports the creation of realistic character behaviors and game logic for games running on Mac, iOS, Android and the Unity Web ... Read More

Xbox 360 Banned in Germany

Xbox 360 Banned in Germany

  A patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola has resulted in an injunction banning several Microsoft products from distribution in Germany, including Xbox 360. This ban also extend... Read More

Reports speculate a THQ purchase by Marvel

Reports speculate a THQ purchase by Marvel

With THQ's situation seeming more desperate than ever and their future hanging in the balance, speculations about a buy-out by Marvel have surfaced. Rich Johnston of comic website Bleeding Cool pi... Read More