Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two has no intention annualising it major game franchises, which also include BioShock, Red Dead Redemption and LA Noire.
Chief operating officer Karl Slatoff told VentureBeat that ‘beating franchises to death’ went against the company’s philosophy of nurturing long-term brands.
Sony Computer Entertainment America president Jack Tretton has said it’s far too early to begin having discussions about a PS3 successor.
The executive told Forbes: “PlayStation 3 is really just hitting its stride. And technologically, I don’t think it’s possible to provide any advancement beyond what we have.
“What we’ve seen from the competition is trying to add features that already exist in PlayStation 3. We invested heavily in that, we rolled a very heavy rock up a steep hill, through the launch period.
Sony has announced a PlayStation 3 hardware revision that is lighter and uses less power - and may, reports suggest, boast improved anti-piracy measures.
Sony confirmed the new model PS3, CECH-3000B, over the weekend. Andriasang reports that the unit, which is set for release in Japan on September 8, weighs 2.6kg, 600g less than the current slim model, with power consumption cut from 230w to 200w. However, Gamertell reports that Sony is also stepping up its copy protection.
Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios has told Edge it is "pretty sure" that at least one new console from Microsoft or Sony will be on shelves in 2014.
If you consider gameplay in terms of making progress through the game, you find that it typically exists on multiple levels. A very crisp example is Archon or similar ‘battle chess’ variation. On the high level, you play chess. On the low level, you have action battles to determine which of two pieces is victorious.
Hey, can you give us $15 million? Impudent as the question sounds, it’s precisely what Zero Point Software is asking of the general public. With said cash, sourced straight from the community’s pockets, the developer hopes to fund Interstellar Marines – a firstperson shooter intended to rival the likes of Halo and Killzone. That may seem like quite a long shot, but the idea of crowdfunding has been around for years, and its successes in other industries are well documented, even for budgets extending into the millions.
505 Games' workout title Zumba Fitness is once again the UK all-formats number one, as last week's chart-topper, Duke Nukem Forever, drops back to third place.
The news means Nintendo's 3DS remake, The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D, fails to top the chart in its first week on sale, instead making its debut in second place.
Sega Europe has opened a new UK development studio in Solihull in the West Midlands.
According to CVG, the studio has been born out of Sega’s nearby Technology Group team, which prototypes new ideas for the publisher.
Sega has confirmed that hackers have stolen users' personal data from its Sega Pass system, which is designed to deliver community members information on the publisher’s upcoming games
Data obtained from the system includes passwords, e-mail addresses and dates of birth.
Sega said in an email to members: “As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June.
"Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.
Unity Technologies is readying the latest version of its Unity 3D development tool, aimed at bringing the quality of browser-based and mobile games much closer to those of high-end PC and console productions.
The company hopes to include a number of upgrades in 3.5 including multithread rendering for taking advantage of multi-core platforms, automatically generated pathfinding, a rewritten particle effects system and advanced lighting techniques such as light probes for lighting dynamic objects.
The Association For Computing Machinery's (ACM) Siggraph conference, the foremost international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques, takes place in Vancouver in August. With the deadline for early bird registrations hours away, now seems an ideal time to run through the likely highlights of this year's event.
Since Jack Claw, our crowd-sourced game development project, is driven by the community, we really wanted to give its members a voice in all aspects of what we want to do. So this article has been written by a very active member who goes by the name StevenT. He has been a pioneer in creating a lot of material from the very beginning, so he has a very good idea of where Jack Claw is at.
Over a decade after release, The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time has achieved a distinction reserved for a true classic. It’s been forgotten. Writing about it garners nothing but grandiose adverbs and scattered memories of Hyrule Field. It’s ‘unquestionably’ and (even better) ‘indefinably’ great.
Social gaming king Zynga has begun legal proceedings against Brazilian developer Vostu for "blatant copyright infringement."
Zynga claims that Vostu, which has offices in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and New York and is, along with Mentez, the biggest social developer in Brazil, "has brazenly appropriated the copyright-protected aspects of Zynga's games (as well as almost every other aspect of Zynga's business) with scant effort to mask [its] strategy."