Square Enix is to launch its own Android download store, the Square Enix market, in Japan.
Among the games promised for the service are the original Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest Monsters Most Wanted, a port of iOS game Chaos Ring, and Crystal Defenders. Titles planned for the future include Itadaki Street and a port of beloved SNES RPG Chrono Trigger.
The Square Enix Market will launch in Japan on December 1, and be exclusive to customers of KDDI, with Softbank and Docomo to follow, according to Andriasang.
More than 4,000 people logged into Minecraft every second following the release last Friday of Minecraft 1.0, developer Mojang has revealed.
The figure was revealed during a developer panel at the Minecon event in Las Vegas, held to celebrate the unprecedented success of Mojang's indie sandbox and to mark its official release.
Those who’d like to see games properly understood and weighed seriously by a massmarket audience believe strongly in what games can be. They laud experimental, emotionally potent works and decry the faintest whiff of commercialism, genre constraint or lowest common denominator-courting risk aversion.
Bethesda released some new RPG called Skyrim the other day, and one or two enterprising players have been showcasing its visual charms. First up, some delightful panoramas of various locales that demonstrate the extraordinary environmental diversity that Bethesda has crafted from coherently northern latitudes.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has held on to the number one spot in the UK all-formats software chart, despite the challenge of an avalanche of new releases.
Sales of the Activision shooter fell by a massive 87 per cent from its launch week, but it still sold enough to retain top spot. Five games made their debuts in the top ten, the highest of which was Assassin's Creed: Revelations in second, with THQ's open-world crime caper Saints Row: The Third in fourth.
Bethesda Softworks plans to release a patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, addressing numerous issues on all platforms, next week.
Pete Hines, VP of PR and marketing for Bethesda, wrote on Twitter: "PS3 and [Xbox] 360 updates have been submitted for certification. PC coming too. Current estimate is they will be live the week after Thanksgiving."
Infinity Ward has banned more than 1,600 players for glitching and cheating in online games of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The news was revealed on Twitter by Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling, who wrote: "Any attempt to cheat, hack or glitch in MW3 will not be tolerated. 1,600+ bans issued."
Namco Bandai has announced plans to absorb the Namco Tales Studio, developer of the Tales series, on January 1, at which point the studio will be officially dissolved.
Andriasang reports that the publisher declined to give a reason for the move, saying only that it will be rubber-stamped at a board meeting on November. The studio, which employs over 100 staff, has two games in development: Tales Of The Heroes: Twin Brave for PSP, and Tales Of Innocence R for the upcoming Vita.
A US law firm has begun class action proceedings against Electronic Arts after PlayStation 3 copies of Battlefield 3 shipped without the promised free copy of Battlefield 1943.
More than four million people play League Of Legends every day, developer Riot Games has announced.
That figure represents growth of 280 per cent since July. It also boasts 11.5 monthly active users, and a registered userbase of over 30 million players worldwide.
It seems that passively watching TV is not engaging enough for most of us. A recent research study shows that 86 per cent of us use our smartphones to surf the web or connect with friends while watching TV. Using our mobiles in this way is often described as the second-screen experience, with the television being the primary display.
Staff at Telltale Games have been exposed for lavishing praise upon the studio's latest work. Jurassic Park: The Game, on review aggregation site Metacritic.
Two members of the game's development team, one a user interface artist and the other a cinematic artist, awarded the game maximum scores and heaped praise upon the game.
One described the game as "a mix between Heavy Rain and LA Noire," and returned the next day to post the exact same review, word for word, under a different username.
This is a generation that’s seen more climate change than any in gaming history; extinction seems to be everywhere you look. Exaggeration, too. Kids born in 2011 will likely never buy a boxed software product. Maybe they’ll miss out on health packs, or even, as hard as it is to believe, the release of a new Dreamcast scrolling shoot ’em up. But cheats? Surely there will always be cheats?
Apple has removed Texas Hold'em - the only iOS game developed by Apple itself - from the App Store.
The game, released in late 2006 for non-iOS iPods, was significantly updated and given prominence on the App Store when it debuted in 2008, but has not been updated since September of that year.
Mac Rumors suggests that Apple's early interest in developing its own games stemmed from the fear that it would struggle to attract thirdparties to its system. That, of course, is no longer a cause for concern.
The British Academy Of Film And Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominees for the 2011 BAFTA Young Game Designers competition.
City Interactive has announced Enemy Front, a WWII FPS helmed by Stuart Black.
Black, most famous for 2006 EA shooter Black and whose most recent work was on Codemasters' disappointing Bodycount, is chief designer on Enemy Front. Set for release in 2012 for PC, Xbox and PS3, the game is being developed on Crytek's CryEngine 3.
Dismemberment may be the next big thing. You know, the spiritual successor to cover systems, dual-wielding, and recharging health when it comes to ideas that every big game needs to find a means of incorporating.
Large save files are reportedly causing game-breaking framerate drops in the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
News of stuttering framerates affecting the PS3 version of the game first broke earlier this week, and it now appears the problem only begins once game saves top 5MB in size.
Official PlayStation Magazine sought comment from Bethesda, who said: "All we can reiterate at this stage is what Pete Hines has said on his Twitter feed."
Issue 235 of Edge will go on sale in UK newsagents November 22, with BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth taking pride of place on the cover. She lies at the very centre of Irrational Games' new world and we explore her relationship both to the floating city of Columbia, and to the player, in our lead feature.
Issue 235 of Edge will go on sale in UK newsagents November 22, with BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth taking pride of place on the cover. She lies at the very centre of Irrational Games' new world and we explore her relationship both to the floating city of Columbia, and to the player, in our lead feature.
Issue 235 of Edge will go on sale in UK newsagents November 22, with BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth taking pride of place on the cover. She lies at the very centre of Irrational Games' new world and we explore her relationship both to the floating city of Columbia, and to the player, in our lead feature.
Issue 235 of Edge will go on sale in UK newsagents November 22, with BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth taking pride of place on the cover. She lies at the very centre of Irrational Games' new world and we explore her relationship both to the floating city of Columbia, and to the player, in our lead feature.
Nintendo Of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has explained the company's reluctance to sell paid DLC for its games.
Speaking to AOL's games blog, Fils-Aime explained that Nintendo developers were wary of selling additional content because they want to give consumers the "complete experience" on day one.
Ed Logg, part of Atari's coin-op division in the 1970s and 1980s who was lead developer on Gauntlet, will be given the Pioneer Award by the Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences (AIAS) .
Logg, also co-designer of Centipede and Asteroids, will be presented with the award by Mark Cerny, a consultant who worked alongside Logg at Atari, at a Las Vegas ceremony in February.