Treasure’s Saturn beat ‘em up to return to Xbox 360 download service this autumn.
Beloved Sega Saturn brawler Guardian Heroes is to be released for Xbox Live Arcade later this year, Sega has announced.
First released in 1996, Treasure’s side-scrolling beat ‘em up is to return this autumn with enhanced graphics, online co-op and versus modes, and brand new game types.
Final instalment of sci-fi epic slips to first three months of 2012 "to address a larger market opportunity."
Mass Effect 3 has been delayed, and will now be released in the first quarter of next year, developer BioWare has announced.
Annual loss down to $276 million thanks to growth in digital business and strong fourth-quarter sales.
Electronic Arts has published financial results for the fiscal year, which show that the publisher has shrunk its losses by 59 per cent over the last twelve months.
The firm’s net loss for the year was $276 million, down from $677 million last year, and this improvement to its balance sheet comes despite a slight drop in revenue, which fell from $3.65 billion last year to $3.59 billion.
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Firm announces unspecified "reduction of workforce" at Split/Second developer; source says 100 jobs to go.
Disney Interactive has confirmed that staff at Split/Second developer Black Rock are to be made redundant.
In a statement the firm told us: "Disney Interactive Studios confirms a reduction of its workforce from the Brighton-based internal game development studio, Black Rock Studios. The studio will continue its work on its current project."
Kaz Hirai claims hacking group left calling card on Sony’s servers during attack; “It wasn’t us,” Anonymous says.
Sony has accused the "hacktivist" group Anonymous of carrying out the attack on PSN which has resulted in the personal details of more than 100 million users being stolen - but the group insists it is not to blame.
Government says Sony’s delay in notifying customers of data loss means legislation "appears necessary."
The Australian government is to introduce new legislation to ensure companies notify their customers of compromised personal information in the wake of the PSN attack, according to reports.
Fund manager says chief executive should go after data loss: "Sony lacks the ability to manage crises."
Howard Stringer, the Welsh-born chief executive of Sony Corporation, to step down over the company’s loss of over 100 million users’ personal data, according to a prominent investment fund manager.
Acquisition "frees us up to focus on the creative stuff that really matters," says Real Racing developer.
Rob Murray, CEO of Australian developer Firemint, says it is "business as usual" for the firm despite the studio’s acquisition by Electronic Arts.
Lawsuit brought on behalf of an estimated million affected Canadians; law firm seeks $1 billion in damages.
A Canadian law firm has commenced a proposed class action lawsuit against Sony over the loss of personal data resulting from the attack on PlayStation Network, and is seeking a billion dollars in damages by way of compensation.
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Studio’s history of “tough games for hardcore gamers” will not apply to series’ return this year, developer says.
The upcoming Driver San Francisco will be “more accessible than any other Reflections game”, according to its developer.
Losses jump dramatically despite strong performance from Homefront, uDraw and WWE titles.
THQ has released its accounts for the last financial year, which show that the publisher sustained a loss of $136.1 million, fifteen times the $9m loss it reported the previous year.
During the course of the year net sales revenue was $665.3 million, a drop of 26 per cent year on year. For the three months ending March 31, net sales slumped 37 per cent to $124.2 million, while the firm’s losses quadrupled year on year, to $44.1 million.
Team restores Linux support a year after Sony removed it, with far greater access to the system than before.
Homebrew developers have released a custom firmware that sees the OtherOS function restored to PlayStation 3 consoles, just over a year after Sony removed the feature.
Project Café to ship with a mere 8GB of onboard flash memory, sources claim; game discs hold 25GB of data.
Nintendo’s Wii successor – codenamed Project Café – will not ship with a hard drive, according to reports.
Paris-based division to adapt the company's properties for film and television.
French videogame publisher and developer Ubisoft is launching a film and television arm to adapt its games. Dubbed Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the Paris-based division is headed up by Jean-Julien Baronnet who was previously the CEO of Luc Besson's film studio EuropaCorp. Didier Lupfer, who produced Gainsbourg, is in charge of production and development.
Melbourne-based Flight Control and Real Racing developer joins publisher's roster.
Electronic Arts has acquired Flight Control and Real Racing developer, Firemint. The publisher promises "an attractive future slate of games" from the Melbourne-based iOS developer. No details regarding the price of the acquisition were forthcoming.
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Firm says it cannot attend Wednesday committee hearing due to “ongoing investigation” into PSN attack.
Sony has responded to a request from the US House Of Representatives to attend a hearing concerning the loss of PSN users’ personal data, declining to attend but promising to answer a series of questions before today's deadline.
Firm ships 2.7 million Xbox 360s and 2.4 million Kinects as third-quarter sales revenue reaches $1.94 billion.
Microsoft’s financial results for the three months ending March 31 show a sharp improvement in its gaming business, with sales revenue across the Entertainment And Devices division up 60 per cent to $1.94 billion.
Back in EA Black Box’s hands, this winter’s Need For Speed to be powered by DICE’s Battlefield 3 engine.
Need For Speed The Run, the latest in the long-running EA racing series, is to use the Frostbite 2 engine.
In a press release EA confirmed that The Run, developed by Need For Speed Undercover and Skate studio EA Black Box, is to use the graphics engine created by Swedish developer DICE for the upcoming Battlefield 3.
“It’s a sacred and fragile thing, but you’re not going to make it sacred again unless you make that big leap.”
Crystal Dynamics, developer of the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, has said that the studio went back to the drawing board with the iconic series because it “felt necessary” to do so.
Success with Alan Wake DLC has CEO hoping for an all-digital future, even if it means the end of specialist retail.
Matias Myllyrinne, CEO of Finnish studio Remedy, says he is “really excited” about the opportunities digital distribution offers, and that “the sooner we go digital as an industry, the better.”
