Ubisoft has posted sales of €103 million for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, down 36.3 per cent year-over-year but ahead of company expectations of €90 million.
New Xbox 360 games Child Of Eden and Michael Jackson: The Experience seemingly failed to live up to multiplatform releases like Splinter Cell Conviction and Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands which launched during the same quarter a year ago, but the company highlighted “solid” performances in other areas of its business.
3DS sales doubled in Japan during the week ended July 17, propelling the portable to the top of the hardware rankings.
Nintendo’s latest handheld shifted 46,637 units compared to second-placed PSP’s 26,551 sales, a figure that was flat week-over-week, Andriasang reports.
In his keynote address at Develop In Brighton today, development legend David Braben insisted that Disneyland Adventures, his Kinect-powered Xbox 360 game unveiled at E3 last month, is no kid-friendly cash-in based on an enormously popular licence. Instead, he said, it's a "top-notch game for a broad audience."
Bastion is a game about rebuilding a world, a game in which every step you take sees a lost landscape flinging itself back together around you, as fragments of paving tile and shards of scenery spin upwards to meet your passing feet. It feels like a magic trick, but it’s not. The real magic trick lies with the other defining feature: narration.
With PlayStation Vita, Sony believes it has learned from its past hardware's reputation for being difficult to develop for and, thanks to feedback from first and thirdparty studios, has produced its "most developer-friendly hardware yet."
Though it’s hard to picture Media Molecule’s all-conquering LittleBigPlanet as anything other than the assuredly solid package that it became, a keynote discussion with studio founders - chaired by Phil Harrison - at the Develop conference in Brighton this morning revealed its inception was far from smooth.
"Your move, Unreal” chirps a hirsute Twisted Pixel staffer during an opening splash sequence advertising the studio’s engine, Beard. It’s easily the funniest moment in the game, but he could just as easily be offering the challenge to Duke Nukem, given the rampant, though daft, sexism prevalent throughout the game.
PopCap has announced a global agreement with Sony Ericsson that will see its games pre-loaded on the Xperia mini range of smartphones and "officially mark the arrival of PopCap’s game titles on Android devices in Europe."
Apple made a staggering $7.31 billion profit in the three months to June 25, more than double the $3.2 billion it made over the same period last year, according to its latest financial results.
Sales revenue rose almost 82 per cent to $28.57 billion, driven by an 183 per cent increase in iPad sales, with the company selling 9.25 million tablets during the quarter. Sales of iPhones also sharply increased, with 20.34 million units sold, a rise of 142 per cent year on year.