Organisers of Games For Brands have announced the list of speakers ahead of the inaugural conference in London later this month.
The festival, which will look at the seemingly ever-increasing ways in which games and marketing overlap, will be opened by Tom Chatfield, author of Fun, Inc: Why Games Are The 21st Century's Most Serious Business. His keynote address will, organisers say, "explore games as a cultural and media phenomenon and explain why it is that games become so massively significant in today's media landscape."
The irony of Bethesda’s acquisition of id is that it has made Rage and Fallout cousins when, in all honesty, it’s hard to imagine them getting along.
Sony's PSN Import programme begins this week, with three lesser-known Japanese PlayStation games to launch on the European PlayStation Store.
All three ports have been handled by MonkeyPaw games, which has been busily converting obscure Japanese PSOne games to PS3 since PSN Imports launched in the US last September.
Sony's PSN Import programme begins this week, with three lesser-known Japanese PlayStation games to launch on the European PlayStation Store.
All three ports have been handled by MonkeyPaw games, which has been busily converting obscure Japanese PSOne games to PS3 since PSN Imports launched in the US last September.
Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has admitted that he misses his rivalry with outspoken Dead Or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, who left Team Ninja last year and is now working on Devil's Third, an action-adventure for publisher THQ.
Developers of some of the highest-rated and best-selling games on Xbox Live Arcade are leaving the service in favour of PlayStation Network and other, more open platforms, according to Ron Carmel, co-founder of World Of Goo developer 2D Boy.
Cyanide, developer of A Game Of Thrones: Genesis, the PC strategy game released last month, has confirmed that its console and PC RPG based on George R R Martin's novels that will be released next year.
Kotaku reports that the game's story will pick up from where Genesis left off, will follow the first season of HBO's TV show and star two new characters, though familiar faces will feature during the course of the game.
BioWare, developer of the Mass Effect trilogy and the upcoming Star Wars MMOG The Old Republic, has insisted that the suggestion that its day-to-day operations are controlled by EA are "not remotely true."
Zynga has said that the success of EA's The Sims Social on Facebook is to be welcomed, and shows that social gaming is still very much on the rise.
Sony has confirmed that an online pass system “will be incorporated into Uncharted 3 and future Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios games with online functionality".
"We will provide further information in the future,” the firm told Destructoid.
Ubisoft has confirmed a March 6, 2012 launch date for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
Valve is to release free Portal 2 singleplayer and co-op content for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 4.
In Portal 2: Peer Review, “you and a friend will continue the story of loyal bots P-Body and Atlas as you puzzle your way through a mysterious new co-op test track and once again match wits with GLaDOS.
“The DLC also features a single player and co-op challenge mode, and leaderboards to compare challenge mode scores with friends and the Portal community.”
Warner Bros has announced plans to launch a new Mortal Kombat film in 2013, potentially alongside a tenth game in the long-running fighting series.
According to the LA Times, Warner Bros' New Line Cinema label is partnering with its videogame unit Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment for the project, which is expected to enter production next year and cost well under $100 million.
Gears Of War 3 has claimed the top spot on the Nordic chart, which combines sales data from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Having entered in third place last week, the title moved up two spots to usurp NHL 12, the top-selling game for the previous fortnight.
The below video shows Life Of George, Lego's intriguing combination of traditional brick-building, augmented reality and iPhone apps, which was released last week.
The £29.99 game contains 144 Lego bricks and a cardboard mat covered in black dots. Players download a free iOS app, which shows a series of pictures to be recreated using Lego bricks. When construction is finished, take a photo of your creation using the iPhone camera and the app awards you a rating based on accuracy and time taken.
Descending a granite staircase early in Dark Souls, you find a Black Knight obstructing the corridor below. He stands with his back turned, oblivious to your approach. A white loot orb glows cheekily at the far end of the passage. Lesser games might telegraph this enemy’s difficulty by showing it rear its head back and screech, flecking the camera lens with spittle. Such condescension would be superfluous in From Software’s action-RPG template.
Going hand in hand with our look at the construction of Ico's castle in issue 233 of Edge is this gallery of concept art from the very early stages of the game's development. Why not go back and read our review of Ico from December 2001 while you're at it?
DICE, Swedish developer of Battlefield 3, has told PC gamers they face Origin account bans should they play the game on unofficial servers - resulting in any other EA games linked to their profile being rendered unplayable.
Battlefield 3's server files were leaked last week, allowing users to create their own unofficial game servers with different properties to those in the beta. One, for example, increases the maximum player count on Operation Métro, the beta's sole multiplayer map, from 32 to over 100.
DICE, Swedish developer of Battlefield 3, has told PC gamers they face Origin account bans should they play the game on unofficial servers - resulting in any other EA games linked to their profile being rendered unplayable.
Battlefield 3's server files were leaked last week, allowing users to create their own unofficial game servers with different properties to those in the beta. One, for example, increases the maximum player count on Operation Métro, the beta's sole multiplayer map, from 32 to over 100.
News just in at the time of writing: speculative venture capitalist and ‘hater of our freedoms’ behind telegenic acts of mass murder shot in the face by Navy SEALs flying stealth helicopters into a secret compound next door to Pakistan’s main military academy. Target’s mangled face identified using secret ‘face recognition’ software; body dumped in the ocean. Nothing to see here; move along.
You can read about all of our visits to the world's key development scenes by visiting our Region Specific topic page. You can view or download a PDF of the Region Specific: Dublin article that appeared in our magazine, too.
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World-class middleware and customer service have put Ireland's capital on the map.
Let’s start by dealing with the black and white elephant in the room: yes, Guinness really does taste better in Dublin. Ascertaining whether that’s just the placebo effect talking or a genuine phenomenon would require the supping of many more pints than we managed during our brief visit to the city, but one difference is more easily quantifiable: you’ll pay a lot more for a pint of the black stuff in Dublin than you would in, say, London, despite the brewery being in its centre.
Let’s start by dealing with the black and white elephant in the room: yes, Guinness really does taste better in Dublin. Ascertaining whether that’s just the placebo effect talking or a genuine phenomenon would require the supping of many more pints than we managed during our brief visit to the city, but one difference is more easily quantifiable: you’ll pay a lot more for a pint of the black stuff in Dublin than you would in, say, London, despite the brewery being in its centre.
The sale of flash cards used for playing pirated games on Nintendo's DS handheld has finally been ruled illegal in France.
The decision last week by the Court Of Appeals in Paris, the second-highest tier of the French legal system, brings down the curtain on a legal battle stretching back for almost four years.
"We’ve got the fields of Hyrule and the keeps of Britannia and the caves of Metroid, all kinds of exciting attractions. I don’t think it’s just nostalgia, these experiences really shaped me, made me into the game developer I am today. They represent my frame of reference for understanding the world, and particularly one really fundamental idea: when I want to play something awesome, I pay for it, and then I own it."