Konami shipped three million copies of PES 2010 to retail ahead the football title’s release today on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
“Retail backing for the game is extremely strong, with Konami predicting the game will become a million-selling title at launch,” the company said in a statement.
It’s the London Games Festival next week, the fourth annual celebration of videogames in the UK capital.
Comprising a mixture of both public and industry events, it promises to offer something for everyone, and, naturally, we’ll be there. Here’s our pick of what’s going on:
MCM Expo
Saturday October 24 and Sunday 25
Excel Centre
A DSi Speak Channel is believed to be in the works after the application was reportedly mentioned on Nintendo's website before being swiftly removed.
DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole has forecast that Apple platforms will be the primary drivers of mobile game market sales over the coming years.
Cole expects handheld and mobile game sales to hit $11.7 billion by 2014, with iPhone and iPod touch accounting for 24 per cent of total software sales.
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Developer: Ben Wilhelm
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In videogames, limbo’s nothing more than the space of time between dying and deciding that you want another go. Purgatory is a cut-scene, or a countdown, or – less frequently these days – a simple cash transaction for another credit. In the glory years of the arcades, all this made solid financial sense. Today, however, a growing number of designers seem less certain about the whole thing.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves entered the Japanese software at number five during the week ended October 18.
The PS3 exclusive was the highest new entry, selling a respectable 54,000 units in its debut week, according to data from Media Create (via Kotaku).
Xbox Live's director of programming, Larry Hryb, has clarified comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concerning Xbox 360 and Blu-ray.
Asked recently whether Microsoft has plans for an Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive, Ballmer said: “Well I don't know that we need to put Blu-ray in there - you'll be able to get Blu-ray drives, you can get Blu-ray drives as accessories.”
Microsoft has failed to rule out the possibility of significantly raising the subscription price for Xbox Live Gold membership in the very near future.
Developer Valve and publisher EA will be forced to release a modified version of multiplayer-focused zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia.
MMO developer and publisher Trion World Network has appointed former NCsoft West publishing president David Reid as senior vice president of publishing, and ex-Sony Online Entertainment executive Scott Hartsman as chief creative officer and general manager of its Redwood Shores Studio.
Every Thursday, the Edge Games Index, produced in association with Brandwatch, rates games according to the volume of positive and negative buzz they're inspiring on the web.
DSi again took the top spot on the Japanese hardware sales chart during the week ended October 18, as PSP slipped further behind its rival.
The Australian Classification Board has expressed concern that there are no existing laws governing the rating of mobile applications.
Sid Meier, director of creative development at Firaxis Games, has revealed that the studio’s bringing classic strategy series Civilization to social networking site Facebook.
Following up from our in-depth look at how Ubisoft Montreal is rebuilding the backstabbing open world adventure for its sequel, we talked with its art director, Mohamed Gambouz, about how he and his team have created its Renaissance Italy setting, from the the art decisions to the technology that enabled them.
PS3 Slim has been outselling Xbox 360 and Wii in Australia for the past month and a half, according to Sony Australia.
Over 60,000 PS3 Slim units have been sold in the country since the console launched on September 3, the platform holder told GameSpot.
Update: Microsoft Has “No Plans For Blu-ray On Xbox 360”
Blu-ray could yet play a role in Microsot's Xbox 360 strategy, according to comments made by company CEO Steve Ballmer.
Subscribers are about to receive the latest issue of Edge, featuring an in-depth look at the Japanese game industry. The issue will be available in UK shops from October 27.
The cover features a bloody rising sun and the line 'Dead or alive: Japan’s game industry faces its own survival horror'. We present a Tokyo Game Show special, with looks at all the major game on display, including Dead Rising 2, Lost Planet 2, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Ninety-Nine Nights II and Monster Hunter 3.
Idol Minds, the developer behind the physics-based PlayStation Network title Pain, has reportedly laid off half of its 50-strong workforce.
One of the affected employees told Gamasutra that the layoffs at the Louisville, Colorado-based studio resulted from "Sony budget cuts”, although the publisher has yet to comment.
What is Assassin’s Creed II? Prior to navigating the twisting hallways of the old textile factory that now houses Ubisoft Montreal, and projects ranging from James Cameron’s Avatar down in the Bunker (a facility so secure its electronic doors sealed every panicked worker inside when the fire bell last bleated a false alarm) to the repeatedly delayed Splinter Cell Conviction, the question seemed entirely redundant. A Glitch in Time Kills Nine Part II, surely?
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EA has labelled Need For Speed “the best-selling racing brand in the gaming world” after franchise sales topped 100 million units, according to the publisher’s internal data.
Since debuting in 1994, EA has launched 15 Need For Speed titles across more than 14 platforms in over 60 countries, generating over $2.7 billion in life-to-date sales.
Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said that a new console from the company would likely retain the motion-control functionality introduced with the Wii, but be “more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient".
"With both the Wii Remote itself and Wii Motion Plus, what we've been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience,” the Mario creator told Popular Mechanics.
Australian developer Transmission Games has reportedly closed following recent financial troubles.
Earlier this month, the CEO of the Melbourne-based studio told us that 28 members of staff had been let go to reduce “operating costs to ensure the long term health and viability” of the company.
Third party peripheral firm Datel has said that Microsoft’s decision to lock out unlicensed memory cards on the Xbox 360 prevents customers from exercising their freedom of choice.