A prominent independent developer has told us that Microsoft must do more to promote the best games on Xbox Live Indie Games or risk losing the service's most talented developers to other platforms.
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Revenue grossed from Xbox Live Arcade games rose 41 per cent in the first six months of the year, according to data released by market research firm Fade.
Most mornings these days, I am woken up by the main title theme from Metal Gear Solid 2. This has major benefits for a chronically reluctant riser. The beginning of the music, all blippy whooshes and mysterious cello stabs, evokes the feeling that today is going to be yet another exciting action-thriller adventure.
Most mornings these days, I am woken up by the main title theme from Metal Gear Solid 2. This has major benefits for a chronically reluctant riser. The beginning of the music, all blippy whooshes and mysterious cello stabs, evokes the feeling that today is going to be yet another exciting action-thriller adventure.
The Call Of Juarez series has always been inclined to the dramatic, casting players as tortured souls with unwelcome destinies: brothers torn apart by petty jealousies against the backdrop of the American Civil War, or a preacher hunting down a wrongly accused American Indian. Call Of Juarez: The Cartel is about three law-enforcement officials putting aside the inter-departmental bullshit to get the job done.
505 Games' Zumba Fitness is once again the UK all-formats number one - the sixth successive week, and the ninth since its release last November that the workout title has occupied top spot.
The game's success shows no signs of slowing: indeed, according to UKIE, its sales rose five per cent last week, ensuring it saw off the challenge of the newly released Call Of Juarez: The Cartel.
Microsoft has admitted that the average price of Xbox Live Arcade games is on the rise, with more new games costing 1200 Microsoft Points (MSP) than ever before, but believes the increase is justified by a rise in quality of games available on the service.
Microsoft has admitted that the average price of Xbox Live Arcade games is on the rise, with more new games costing 1200 Microsoft Points (MSP) than ever before, but believes the increase is justified by a rise in quality of games available on the service.
During his talk, Why Great Games Don't Always Sell, at the Develop conference in Brighton yesterday, Gareth Wilson drew on his time as design manager of Bizarre Creations and his background in economics to give a fascinating assessment of why new IPs are struggling at retail.
In his keynote at this year's Develop conference, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios senior director Mick Hocking looked back at a year in which the third place became the third dimension as 3D games arrived on PlayStation 3. We caught up with him at the event to discuss what 3D really adds to games, the importance of tuning it properly and why virtual reality really will take off this time.