Namco Bandai has reportedly filed a lawsuit against CD Projekt Red parent company Optimus SA over European publishing rights for The Witcher 2.
According to Giant Bomb, Namco, publisher of the PC edition of the title, has taken issue with the decision to grant THQ European publishing rights for the Xbox 360 version of the RPG.
Namco Bandai has reportedly filed a lawsuit against CD Projekt Red parent company Optimus SA over European publishing rights for The Witcher 2.
According to Giant Bomb, Namco, publisher of the PC edition of the title, has taken issue with the decision to grant THQ European publishing rights for the Xbox 360 version of the RPG.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has acknowledged the company faces a significant challenge convincing consumers that 3DS use carries no serious health risks, a message he says is vital to get across if the portable is to achieve mass market penetration.
Asked by a shareholder what the company is doing to dispel perceptions that 3DS is a potential threat to users’ vision, Iwata said Nintendo recognises the need to educate consumers that such “rumours” are unfounded.
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has repeated its earlier warning about the Amazon Appstore after a Swedish studio raised fresh concerns over the retailer's download service, and urged similarly affected developers to make public their experiences.
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has repeated its earlier warning about the Amazon Appstore after a Swedish studio raised fresh concerns over the retailer's download service, and urged similarly affected developers to make public their experiences.
Bethesda Softworks has revealed new title Dishonored. The firstperson stealth action game is being created by Arx Fatalis developer Arkane Studios, and will be the first release from the studio since Bethesda parent company ZeniMax acquired it last year.
Edinburgh Interactive has earned a reputation as one of the most low-key and high-minded conferences in the gaming calendar. Since 2003, the event has attracted game industry figures like Ian Livingstone (returning this year) and former president of SCE Europe, Chris Deering (who acted as the event’s chairman for four consecutive years).
Communications regulator Ofcom has revealed that the average maximum speed of UK broadband connections is just 7.5Mbit per second. While 68 per cent of UK residents have a broadband connection, there is a significant disparity across the nation.
If games were judged in terms of project management rather than entertainment value, the world would be a topsy-turvy place. Valve and Blizzard would be near the bottom of the heap, pummelled by that troublesome inability to meet deadlines, while, at the gleaming pinnacle of the industry would sit Telltale Games, a studio that meets every milestone and ticks every box - except, perhaps, the one for genuine enjoyment.
Tales Of The Abyss is the new number one in the Japanese software chart, and interest in the Namco Bandai RPG has also propelled 3DS to the top of this week's hardware chart.
3DS has had a slow start in Japan, regularly outsold by PSP, but this week it has knocked Sony's ageing portable from the summit, albeit with the most slender of leads: 30,233 units sold to PSP's 29,871.