Lionhead’s role-playing epic takes the number one spot from Fallout: New Vegas.
The UK multiformat chart for the week ending October 30 also saw strong debuts for franchise titles The Sims 3 and WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011.
EA Sports’ FIFA 11 managed to climb back up to second place after slipping a position in the previous week while Medal Of Honor fell four places in its third week of release.
Job losses at Kane & Lynch developer amid rumours of a cancelled project.
Denmark-based developer IO Interactive confirmed yesterday that an undisclosed number of employees have been made redundant at the studio.
Edge contributors collaborate on new book which presents a collection of the best games released over the last 36 years.
Satoru Iwata unveils the new digital shopping interface for the forthcoming handheld.
At a Nintendo investors meeting today, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata showed off the new shopping channel for 3DS, which was cut from a previous meeting due to time constraints.
CEO to leave the US-based owner of Rockstar and 2K Games.
It has been announced that Ben Feder, CEO of game publisher, developer and distributor Take-Two Interactive, will resign from the company as of January 1 2011.
In a statement issued today the company said Feder is leaving “in order to pursue plans to travel in Asia with his family for an extended period.”
Format: Xbox 360
Release: Out now
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Lionhead
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Mass Effect 2 and Jagex walk away with two of the top awards at the 28th annual ceremony.
The Golden Joystick Awards, held in London today, saw BioWare's RPG pick up the Ultimate Game award and Cambridge-based studio Jagex take the UK Developer Of The Year award, presented by Edge.
Strong demand for 360 consoles and games a major factor in year-on-year increase in revenue.
Microsoft has posted its first-quarter financial report for the period ending September 30. Overall, the company’s income before tax was $7.12 billion, a 59 per cent increase on the same period last year.
Veteran producer and current head of R&D Management quits with “the intention of starting my life over".
Keiji Inafune has announced that he will leave Japan-based publisher and developer Capcom at the end of this month. Inafune has been with the company for 23 years and his most recent role was head of R&D Management Group, Consumer Games R&D Division and Contents Management Division.
Apps-based gaming model is becoming more popular with upcoming television platforms.
A new set-top box co-funded by UK television broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will use an app store model to deliver content, including games, to television sets.
The new venture, called YouView, is described by the BBC as “an attempt to develop a standard for internet television services in the UK”, and is seen as the spiritual successor to the Freeview digital set-top boxes.
As games become smaller, quirkier, and more connected, we’re getting a lot of topical offerings. Developers who can design, build, and release a title in a matter of weeks are increasingly looking to the calendar for inspiration. Sure, that makes for an avalanche of lumpen Barack Obama platformers and horrible budget deficit puzzlers, but it also allows for seasonal games.
Sony’s Networked Products and Services division “contributed significantly” to improved results.
For the second quarter of Sony’s financial year, ending September 30, the segment of the company that includes PCs and games achieved profit before tax of 6.9 billion yen ($85 million). For the same period last year the division saw losses of 59 billion yen ($731 million).
New Wii title ends the handheld RPG’s five-week rule over the charts.
Pokemon Black/White has been knocked off the top of the Japanese software charts by Super Mario All-Stars on Wii for the week ending October 24.
The Wii game, released as part the 25th anniversary celebrations of Super Mario Bros., made its chart debut with 307,755 units sold. Pokemon Black/White sales declined from 168,541 units the previous week to 81,915.
Fiscal results for the past six months show decline in DS and Wii sales on last year.
Nintendo has posted its financial report for the six-month period ending September 30. Net sales fell from 548 billion yen ($6.7 billion) in 2009, to 363.1 billion yen ($4.4 billion). Of this figure, overseas sales accounted for 81 per cent of sales.
CEO Brian Farrell says that this generation's long lifecycle is beneficial to customers and creators.
Acclaimed Japanese developer’s studio acquired by Bethesda’s parent company.
US-based publisher, marketer and distributor ZeniMax Media has announced the purchase of Shinji Mikami’s Tokyo-based developer Tango Gameworks. Mikami will develop titles for ZeniMax subsidiary Bethesda Softworks.
Mikami is famed for directing titles such as Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4. His latest project is a collaboration under the EA Partners label with Suda 51, Shadows Of The Damned.
Following rumours and retractions, new details hint at the existence of the Sony device.
A report by Endgadget yesterday claimed to reveal images of a new "PlayStation Phone" that combines elements of Sony Ericsson mobile handsets and a handheld gaming device.
US-based publisher and developer says job losses following game launches are “vital to maintaining a healthy business”.
EA has today confirmed that “seasonal roll-offs” have affected an undisclosed number of jobs at the company.
Microsoft veteran takes the reins on the UK developer with a commitment to Kinect titles.
Scott Henson, former product unit manager at Microsoft’s game technology group, has been made studio manager of first-party developer and subsidiary Rare.
Henson will replace Mark Betteridge, who will continue to work at the company in a more creative role. We interviewed Betteridge as part of our celebration of the studio which you can read here.
Format: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
Release: October 29
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Strong Dead Rising 2 and Super Street Fighter IV sales countered by “substantial underperformance” of Lost Planet 2.
Japan-based publisher and developer Capcom has today announced its fiscal results for the six-month period ending September 30.
Fallout: New Vegas takes the top spot as Halo: Reach leaves the top ten altogether.
Amassing 16,160 mentions during its debut week, Fallout: New Vegas shoots straight to the top of the buzz chart. Medal Of Honor, which debuted at number two last week, remains in the same spot with 6989 mentions.
Studio head Yosuke Hayashi says recent changes were a chance to “rethink our approach to game development”.
In an interview with Famitsu this week, the head of Japan-based developer Team Ninja discusses the departure of the studio’s previous lead, Tomonobu Itagaki, and other staff in 2008.
Ex Microsoft VP details Apple’s reaction to the Halo sale and the bidding war for the GoldenEye developer.
Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing for Microsoft, has revealed that when buying UK-based developer Rare, which it acquired in 2002, “There was a bit of a bidding war between us [Microsoft] and Activision – a war which they had won at first.
Format: iPhone
Release: Out now
Publisher: Kairosoft
Developer: Kairosoft
When playing a game that doesn't achieve its potential, there's one thought common to all players: I could have fixed that. Kane and Lynch? Tweak the cover system, give the weapons a bit more oomph, improve AI. New Vegas? Keep debugging until there's no glitch left standing. Wii games? Ban waggle. Gross oversimplifications of complex products? Of course - but it seems so easy from the outside.