Sony and EA have reneged on a promise to include Battlefield 1943 with all PlayStation 3 copies of Battlefield 3.
The move was announced at Sony's E3 press conference in July, where Jack Tretton said that making use of the extra storage space on Blu-ray discs meant the PS3 release of Battlefield 3 would represent "one of the most exciting games of the year bundled free with one of the most popular PSN games."
Industry veteran Louis Castle has quit his social gaming titan Zynga after just nine months.
Castle, co-founder of Command & Conquer developer Westwood Studios, joined Zynga as VP of studios earlier this year, but he has now switched to casino supplier Shuffle Master and told Industry Gamers that the workload was simply too heavy for him.
I can't believe it's been nine months already. Everybody knows that time seems to accelerate as you get older, probably due to some kind of mad physics that we haven't discovered yet. However, what isn't common knowledge is that time goes into warp speed when you start your own business. Every day flits past like it's an hour, and in what seems like no time at all your find yourself nine months down the line, having released your very first game to the world.
I can't believe it's been nine months already. Everybody knows that time seems to accelerate as you get older, probably due to some kind of mad physics that we haven't discovered yet. However, what isn't common knowledge is that time goes into warp speed when you start your own business. Every day flits past like it's an hour, and in what seems like no time at all your find yourself nine months down the line, having released your very first game to the world.
Capcom's profits for the six months ending September 30 fell 49.2 per cent year on year.
Net income fell from last year's ¥1.78 billion (£14.64 million) to ¥906 million (£7.43 million). Net sales revenue dropped 28.1 per cent year on year, to ¥29.25 billion (£240.6 million). Once again its mobile business was the star performer: fired by the success of Smurfs Village, it brought in 89 per cent more revenue than last year.
Yesterday's announcement of Grand Theft Auto V had a predictable effect on Take-Two's share price, with its US stock rising six per cent.
The publisher's shares rose as high as $15.71 during the day, settling at $15.22 at the close of trading and rising again to $15.36 in afterhours trading.
All this despite a decidedly barebones announcement - just a logo was released, with a trailer promised next week.
Servers have been up and down all night on the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3.
The game launched in North America yesterday, but despite a beta test which publisher EA says was downloaded 9.5 million times on all platforms, it appears players have been struggling to get into multiplayer games.
Zynga has launched Mafia Wars 2, a sequel to its 2008 social game, on Facebook and Google+.
A United States appeals court has upheld last year's verdict which awarded Ultima creator Richard Garriott $28 million following his acrimonious departure from MMOG developer NCSoft.
The decision, reported by Gamasutra, was reached by a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals, and adds interest and legal fees to take Garriott's total award to $32 million (£20 million).
According to Japan's Nikkei, Nintendo is to reveal a pre-tax loss of ¥100 billion (£821 million) when it reports its half-yearly financial results tomorrow.
The newspaper claims that the loss - which will almost double the ¥55 billion (£451 million) loss predicted by Nintendo - will be largely due to exchange rates. The strength of the Yen against the Euro is expected to account for a loss of ¥40 billion (£328 million).
Publisher Ubisoft has announced plans to open a development studio in Abu Dhabi, becoming the first major publisher to expand to the United Arab Emirates.
The studio, which will open in December, will be led by a team of experienced Ubisoft staff. Yannick Theler, who has been with Ubisoft for ten years, will head a team of local recruits in partnership with twofour54, the Abu Dhabi government's Media Zone Authority initiative, to create "an Arabic media and entertainment hub for the Middle East and North Africa."
A total of 568 games have been submitted for consideration in the Independent Games Festival (IGF) Main Competition, setting a new record with a 45 per cent increase on last year's figure.
Nvidia has released the full keynote from its recent GeForce LAN 6 event in San Francisco.
Johan Andersson, visual architect at Swedish developer DICE, explains how the graphics in the Battlefield series have evolved from the release of Battlefield 1942 in 2002 to Battlefield 3, which has launched in North America today and makes its European debut on Friday.
London interface design studio ustwo has been making apps for some time now, but Whale Trail marks a purposeful stride forward from its previous casual iOS experiments. If there's something a little too calculatedly twee about the developer's cetacean creation – it does come from a man who refers to himself as Chief Wonka, after all – it's no less successful for that.
Tate Liverpool is using videogames alongside its Alice In Wonderland exhibition to help teach children aged 8-12 about developmental neuroscience.
The project, dubbed Wondermind, consists of online games and interactive films which will be playable within the exhibition itself as well as through the Tate Kids website.
Cambridge-based chip designer ARM Holdings saw profits rise 44 per cent to £55.8 million during its last fiscal quarter.
The company, whose chips are used in tablets, smartphones and gaming devices including 3DS and the upcoming PlayStation Vita, outperformed analyst predictions, with revenue climbing 20 per cent to $192.3 million.
Over 500,000 people have signed up for the beta phase of Funcom's upcoming MMOG The Secret World, the developer has announced.
The game, which casts players as one of three secret societies - Illuminati, Dragon or Templar - is currently in beta ahead of its release in April.
Trond Arne Aas, CEO, said: "We are thrilled to see the amount of interest The Secret World is generating, and exceeding half a million beta registrations six months before release is definitely something we are proud of.
A poll on the Facebook page of Starbreeze Studios' Syndicate reboot appears to be gauging interest for an HD remake of Bullfrog's 1993 original.
As you can see below, the poll asks whether fans have played, or intend to play, the original game before the FPS reboot which has so upset fans of the original launches in February.
Two million copies of Batman: Arkham City were sold in its first week on sale, according to publisher Warner Bros.
The LA Times reports that the publisher shipped 4.6 million copies to retailers. Arkham City tops the UK chart this week, after doubling predecessor Arkham Asylum's launch sales.
Two million copies of Batman: Arkham City were sold in its first week on sale, according to publisher Warner Bros.
The LA Times reports that the publisher shipped 4.6 million copies to retailers. Arkham City tops the UK chart this week, after doubling predecessor Arkham Asylum's launch sales.
The Xbox Live Arcade port of indie success story Minecraft has slipped to next spring.
The delay was revealed by Microsoft producer Stuart Platt on Twitter yesterday. Announced at E3 in June, the XBLA version is being handled by Dundee developer 4J Studios and was originally set for release in 2011.
Peter Serafinowicz is a comedian, writer and actor, his CV spanning the sitcom Spaced, the spoof science programme Look Around You and Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, for which he voiced Darth Maul. He's also rather big on Twitter. He’s appeared in Edge before, in E156’s roundtable discussion with Simon Pegg, Graham Linehan and Charlie Brooker – and, as we discover, he’s not sure much has changed in the intervening six years.
Nintendo has this morning announced its European release plans for the two latest 3DS models.
The Ice White 3DS will be released across Europe on December 2, bundled with Super Mario 3D Land. The system will be available without Mario's 3DS debut later in the month.
The Coral Pink model, meanwhile, will be released on November 18, bundled with a copy of Nintendogs + Cats. The system will also be available on its own "later this year."
The Metallic Red 3DS launched in Europe earlier this month.
Rockstar has this morning updated its website to announce Grand Theft Auto V.
There's no further information - just the below logo, with a trailer to be released on November 2.
Trion Worlds, the Californian developer of MMOG Rift, is planning on joining the rush of technology firms to the US stock market with an initial public offering (IPO).
Speaking to Reuters, chief executive Lars Buttler said that an IPO was a likely prospect given the pace at which Trion Worlds has grown: it has raised $100 million in venture capital since 2007, and has doubled its headcount to 500 in the last 12 months alone. A million copies of Rift were sold in just four months.