Electronic Arts has warned investors that the failure of troubled UK retailer Game Group could affect the publisher's finances.
THQ plans to cut as many as 240 “selling, general and administrative personnel” as part of its recently announced restructuring plan.
The majority of the cuts will be implemented by March 31, 2012, with the remainder made by the end of September, the publisher said today in a regulatory filing.
Company CEO Brian Farrell has also agreed to reduce his base salary by 50 per cent, from $718,500 to $359,250, for a one-year period beginning February 13, 2012.
Electronic Arts has labelled Star Wars: The Old Republic “the fastest growing subscription MMOG ever” following an impressive first six weeks on the market.
The BioWare developed MMOG has sold more than two million copies since launching on December 20 and now has “a little over” 1.7 million active subscribers. “Nearly” 40 per cent of the game’s December sales came through EA’s digital download service Origin.
Electronic Arts narrowed its third quarter loss as revenue edged up in the three months ended December 31, 2011.
The publisher posted a loss of $205 million, or 62 cents a share, compared with a loss of $322 million, or 97 cents a share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose 0.8 per cent to $1.06 billion, with digital sales accounting for more than a quarter of the total at $274 million, versus $195 million a year ago.
EA’s Battlefield 3 continues to hold the number one spot on the Nordic all-formats chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
FIFA 12 is also a non-mover at number two, while The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim jumps ahead of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic rounds off the top five.
Bethesda has detailed the features available in the Creation Kit, the suite of modding tools it will soon release for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The company promises that this will be its most powerful tool to date, with the Steam-hosted Skyrim Workshop streamlining sharing and discoverability.
From Software's Armored Core V is the new Japanese all-formats number one after selling almost 188,000 copies in its first week on shelves.
Resident Evil Revelations is another new entry, Capcom's 3DS game selling 146,000 and making its debut in second spot. Just behind is Namco Bandai's DS remake Tales Of Innocence R, which with 54,800 units sold becomes the first Vita game to trouble the upper echelons of the chart in some time.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Q Entertainment has announced the 34 songs it has licensed for PlayStation Vita launch puzzler Lumines Electronic Symphony.
Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, the tracklist includes dance music luminaries including The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Josh Wink, Deep Dish, LCD Soundystem, LFO and Orbital. And Benny Bennassi.
The past week has seen a spate of accusations of videogame plagiarism. First, Nimblebit accused Zynga of cloning Apple's iPhone game of the year, Tiny Tower, with its new game Dream Heights; it has since also noted that Glu Mobile has released two games based on similar concepts, Lil' Dungeon and Small Street.
The past week has seen a spate of accusations of videogame plagiarism. First, Nimblebit accused Zynga of cloning Apple's iPhone game of the year, Tiny Tower, with its new game Dream Heights; it has since also noted that Glu Mobile has released two games based on similar concepts, Lil' Dungeon and Small Street.
Trion Worlds has launched Rift Lite, giving players free access to the MMOG up to level 20, with no restrictions on playtime.
The launch coincides with the release of the latest Rift update, version 1.7, which adds weddings, new and tweaked dungeons, PvP improvements and more; for the full list, follow the source link below.
Capcom has announced a social game based on its massively popular action series Monster Hunter.
Andriasang reports that the game, Minna To Monhan Card Master (Monster Hunter With Everyone Card Master) is a card battle game, developed by Gloops, and will be released on February 21 on the Mobage network.
Game Group, the UK's largest specialist videogame retailer, has insisted that this week's new releases will be on shelves on Friday as normal, despite reports to the contrary.
Earlier today a Eurogamer report cited multiple sources who claimed Game had lost credit insurance with a number of agencies, meaning it would not be able to source stock of new releases without paying for them up front.
Yesterday, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus dismissed criticism levelled at the remarkable similarities between its upcoming Dream Heights and Nimblebit’s Tiny Tower.
Yesterday, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus dismissed criticism levelled at the remarkable similarities between its upcoming Dream Heights and Nimblebit’s Tiny Tower.
Kaz Hirai has been named the new president and CEO of Sony Corporation.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus has dismissed accusations that his company cloned Tiny Tower, saying Nimblebit's iOS game can hardly lay claim to the tower sim genre and that Zynga will continue to "evolve genres" for its players in future.
Swedish non-profit technology organisation MuchDifferent has set a new world record for simultaneous online players, hosting 999 combatants in its browser based FPS Man Vs Machine.
Planetside previously held the record, with 600 players. The Man Vs Machine session lasted two hours and saw players divided into the two titular teams. Watch the video below for a taste of what it's like to face a 500-strong opposition.
Stealth has hardly become a forgotten shade in the gaming spectrum, but it's hard to think of many new games that are dedicated to it. Instead of being the leading light, as it was at the heights of the Thief and Metal Gear series, today stealth is more frequently just an element - from a choice in Deus Ex: Human Revolution to a pastime in Skyrim.
German browser gaming company Bigpoint now has more than 250 million registered players.
In a press release, the company - which claims to have been the first to introduce the free-to-play model to the west, with 2002's IceFighter - says it is seeing more than 250,000 new signups every single day.
Organisers of the Develop In Brighton Conference have issued a call for speakers ahead of this year's conference, which begins on July 10.
The three-day event, now in its seventh year, plays host to over 100 sessions from industry experts. Speakers last year included David Braben, LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule, and SCEE's Mick Hocking.
At first, it just looks big. Xbox Live Arcade was always Quarrel's target platform, but developer Denki's struggle to find a publisher meant the iOS release came first, and so your first moments are spent marvelling at things you'd previously had to squint at. Given its board game roots - pitched simplistically, and correctly, as Risk meets Scrabble - Quarrel is much better suited to a large panel and a good sit down than the snatched spare moments for which mobile games are largely designed.
The legal language for it is "expanding boundary". That’s the terminology PomPom settled on back in 2005, when it decided that its new control scheme was so good that the team should probably patent it. The technical definition makes it sound a lot more complicated than it actually is, of course: place a cursor on the playing field, and it simply creates a little circular puff of air, pushing outwards against any object it comes into contact with.
EverQuest will celebrate its 13th birthday in March by adopting the free-to-play model, Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed.
The move was revealed in a post on the game's official website by producer Thom Terrazas. Like its SOE stablemate, the PC and PS3 MMOG DC Universe Online, EverQuest will offer a free option alongside monthly subscriptions.
Capcom's open-world action-adventure Dragon's Dogma has been delayed to May, the publisher has confirmed.
In a brief statement, Capcom reveals that the game will now be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 on May 22 in North America, and May 25 in Europe. It was previously due in North America on March 27, and Europe on May 1.