EA Sports' FIFA 11 has topped the Nordic chart - which collates sales data from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland - for the third consecutive week and the sixth out of seven.
The top five remains unchanged bar the entrance of Cars 2: The Videogame at number three, which replaces Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean, this week’s number six.
New releases took the top three spots on the Japanese software chart during the week ended August 7, while PSP retained its lead on the hardware front.
Let's Make A J.League Pro Soccer Club! 7 Euro Plus for PSP debuted at number one with just over 100,000 sales, followed by fellow new entries Kirby Mass Attack for DS and Toriko Gourmet Survival! for PSP.
Presented at Edinburgh Interactive today, the award recognises the game that the Edge team feels did the most this year to blaze a trail for new interactive experiences for players.
We felt that the remarkable Motionscan performance capture technology used in LA Noire has helped to push videogames another step towards mainstream entertainment.
Disney Research has developed a new tactile technology, dubbed Surround Haptics, which it promises will deliver the widest range of physical sensations to players yet.
According to the company, the technology takes advantage of phantom sensations to recreate everything from the feeling a finger stroking your skin through to the violent jolt of a car crash.
Developers facing patent litigation brought by "patent troll" Lodsys have requested a Texas court to allow Apple to intervene in the case.
In a court filing, the developers say Apple's involvement in the case is "critical" in their bid to have Lodsys' patent suit thrown out of court.
Speaking to us at the Develop conference last month, Square Enix Group worldwide technology director Julien Merceron told us that principal among the improvements we can expect to see from games made for the current generation of consoles are developments in global illumination, a form of realtime lighting.
Chris Bateman of ihobo kicks the tyres of games-as-service. It’s a multi-faceted issue and one of the interesting implications Bateman highlights is the effect on the next console cycle. “Consoles need retail to make their product work,” he writes. But service games don’t need retail.
The formula for the perfect game may be an area of hot discussion, but most would argue that games that are easy to get into and difficult to put down goes along the right lines. Players' early experience of a game is critical: this is the period in which they're making up their minds whether to devote more time, and often money, to the rest of it.
So how do we make games with a polished early experience? Let's take some lessons from a game which I think does it incredibly well, PopCap's Plants Vs Zombies.
The finalists for this year's Games Media Awards have been revealed ahead of October's ceremony in London.
Organisers have whittled down the list of finalists from thousands of nominations, with 17 magazines, 20 websites, podcasts and blogs, and 26 writers up for an award, with the winners to be chosen by a panel of industry figures.
The ceremony is set for 26 October at Vinopolis near London's South Bank, and will be hosted by standup comedian and actor Greg Davies.
With Rage on its final path to its release in October, we took the opportunity to ask id creative director Tim Willits about the prospects for its trailblazing new engine, id Tech 5, which already stretches the current generation, and what form the next generation of gaming hardware might take.
With Rage on its final path to its release in October, we took the opportunity to ask id creative director Tim Willits about the prospects for its trailblazing new engine, id Tech 5, which already stretches the current generation, and what form the next generation of gaming hardware might take.
Cloud gaming service OnLive will launch in the UK on September 22, the company has confirmed.
The service, which offers over 100 games playable on HDTV, PC, Mac, iPad and Android tablets, launched in the US last June. While full access to games requires a monthly subscription, membership is free, with users able to instantly play demos of or rent the games available. New releases will be available at the same time as they hit store shelves.