Market research company consolidates best-selling charts for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
According to GfK, the Nordic region ranks among the top five regions in Europe.
"The industry has been open to the idea of a unified tracking for quite sometime, but this didn't come into fruition until we began our research into Norway and an international compilation quickly followed," says GfK games market research project manager, Magdalena Jönsson.
Zynga's title remains most popular social game despite decreasing player numbers, however.
Despite dominating Facebook as the network's most popular App for 15 straight months, Zynga's social farming game FarmVille has been knocked from the top spot by developer Takeoff Monkey's Phrases.
iOS 4.2 update brings Apple's tablet in line with iPhones and adds a range of additional functionality to both devices.
Apple has released its 4.2 update for iOS devices, bringing Game Center to iPad users for the first time. The social gaming platform adds achievements, leaderboards and multiplayer matchmaking to a growing list of supported games.
Halo overseer, Frank O'Connor, confirms the big screen is still in the company's sights.
“There will be a Halo movie,” he stressed, while speaking to the New York Videogame Critics Circle. “Everyone wanted to do a Halo movie, the director, Microsoft, the highest placed people at movie companies.”
As the company continues to restructure, the long-term head of games announces that he is set to depart.
According to the the L.A. Times, Hopper announced his departure via an internal email, saying,"the time has come for me to move on from the company and set my sights on new horizons."
Following the government's dismissal of game industry tax relief, MP claims that the battle isn't lost yet.
Speaking at yesterday's TIGA event held to announce the findings of its recent survey on the state of the UK games industry, Labour MP and co-chair of the All Party Group for Computer and Videogames, Tom Watson, insisted to us that the industry shouldn't "lose heart" when it comes to tax breaks.
Format: 360, PS3 (version tested)
Release: Out now
Publisher: Namco Bandai
Developer: Game Republic
Ex-Electronic Arts VP signs up with Dave Perry’s game streaming service.
Nanea Reeves, who previously worked as vice president and COO of EA’s Global Online division, has joined cloud-based streaming service Gaikai as chief strategy officer.
Reeves also worked as VP of Consumer Solutions at EA’s mobile division.
Survey details declining workforce as 80 per cent of new companies focus on download rather than retail.
TIGA, a trade association which represents the UK game industry, has revealed new findings from a census of 278 UK-based studios.
The survey shows that over the last two years the number of people employed by the UK game industry has fallen by nine per cent.
Marvelous Entertainment estimates software could cost between $600,000 and $1.8 million to produce.
Japan-based media company Marvelous Entertainment revealed its projected costs for developing 3DS games in a financial Q&A session last week.
Irrational Games addresses concerns over the porting process for its multiformat title.
New entries from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit can’t topple Activision’s shooter in the latest chart.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops remains at the top of the UK multiformat software chart for the week ending November 20.
Activision recently announced that the game had broken previous sales records in its first five days of release.
Format: Xbox 360 (version tested), DS, PS3, Wii
Release: Out now
Publisher: MTV Games
Developer: Harmonix Music Systems
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Phil Harrison and Peter Molyneux join an international cast of speakers in Rome next month.
The programme for this year’s Italian Videogame Developers Conference, held at the LUISS University in Rome on December 3-4, has been confirmed.
Highlights of this year’s roster include Phil Harrison, former president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Avni Yerli, managing director of Crytek and Peter Molyneux, founder of Lionhead Studios.
Social game platform manages to co-exist with Apple’s Game Center on iOS devices.
Peter Relan, chairman of mobile social game platform OpenFeint, says the platform is still going strong with 50 million users, despite the launch of Apple's own platform in September.
OpenFeint, which was established in February last year, has seen its user base double in the past seven months and had more than 125 million game downloads to date.
Executive suggests new device will be branded Sony Ericsson rather than PlayStation.
In a report published by the Wall Street Journal today, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg discusses recent rumours regarding a PlayStation smartphone.
Pity the modern critic. The appetite and respect for authority that once existed now seem like relics in an age of Metacritics, Tomatometers, blogs, podcasts, walls, forums and Twitter. And some critics aren’t taking their devaluation all that well.
New casual game company acquires the license for the comedy group’s work.
UK-based social and casual game developer Zattikka has announced that it will release a Monty Python game on Facebook.
Introducing our latest issue, looking at World Of Warcraft's rebirth.
In issue 222 of Edge, which should be in subscribers' hands today and will appear on UK newsagents' shelves Tuesday 23, we visit Blizzard to find out about Cataclysm, the upcoming World Of Warcraft revision that will tear down the world of Azeroth. It represents perhaps the company's biggest gamble since it first allowed players to step out into its world in 2004.
Introducing our latest issue, looking at World Of Warcraft's rebirth.
In issue 222 of Edge, which should be in subscribers' hands today and will appear on UK newsagents' shelves Tuesday 23, we visit Blizzard to find out about Cataclysm, the upcoming World Of Warcraft revision that will tear down the world of Azeroth. It represents perhaps the company's biggest gamble since it first allowed players to step out into its world in 2004.
UK games association issues warning about forthcoming government plans.
TIGA, a trade association which represents the UK games industry, has today expressed concerns regarding a forthcoming announcement by the UK government on immigration policy.
UK developers target Bizarre Creations employees following rumours of an uncertain future for the studio.
Online game company Jagex, and producer and developer Codemasters, have announced that they will each be hosting a recruitment event in Liverpool next week.
The news follows rumours of the possible closure of Liverpool-based studio Bizarre Creations. No official statement has yet been issued by the studio or parent company Activision.
For Tim Schafer, it all began with ‘amnesia fortnights’. “I got the idea from Wong Kar-wai, the movie director,” says the founder of Double Fine Productions. “He was making an epic film with swords and armies that took three years to finish. Everyone was getting lost in the project, so he went to Hong Kong and improvised for two weeks, just his stars and his cameraman. They made two movies in those two weeks.
Developer hails new release date as an achievement in the company’s proud tradition of delays.
US-based developer and distributor Valve has made light of the delay to its forthcoming multiplatform sequel Portal 2.
In a statement issued yesterday the company announced a new release date of April 18 for the game, which “marks the shortest delay in Valve's proud tradition of delays, it represents the approaching convergence of Valve Time and Real Time.”
Blizzard-appointed distributor gearing up for possible 2011 release as earnings are boosted by WarCraft.
GamePolitics reports that China-based internet company NetEase has submitted StarCraft II for approval to the Chinese government.