Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella will go to court with their former employer Activision in Los Angeles on May 7, 2012 in a battle over royalties from the Call Of Duty franchise.
West and Zampella, two of the driving forces behind the creation of the blockbuster firstperson shooter franchise, were fired by Infinity Ward parent company Activision last March for alleged illegal dealings with rival publisher Electronic Arts.
Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella will go to court with their former employer Activision in Los Angeles on May 7, 2012 in a battle over royalties from the Call Of Duty franchise.
West and Zampella, two of the driving forces behind the creation of the blockbuster firstperson shooter franchise, were fired by Infinity Ward parent company Activision last March for alleged illegal dealings with rival publisher Electronic Arts.
So El Shaddai is based on the Book of Enoch, a bit of antediluvian religious esoterica that outlines the revelations of Noah’s great grandfather. But this is hardly Sunday School stuff. El Shaddai presents Bible stories by way of hippie psychedelia, French sci-fi, Japanese anime and videogame oddity.
This one's not ostensibly about videogames, but Google's report on its energy consumption is an eye-opener for the in-the-cloud future of gaming we're headed towards. Gmail generates 1.2kg a year per user, which, Google rather convolutedly claims, equates to less than the energy it requires to drink a bottle of wine, stuff a message into the bottle and throw it into the sea.
Techland, developer of Dead Island, has apologised for a line of code that called a skill given to one of the game's female characters "Feminist Whore."
Sales of 3DS rose 260 per cent in the United States following the 40 per cent price drop last month, Nintendo has announced.
In total, Nintendo sold more than 235,000 units in August, around 185,000 of which were sold following the price drop coming into effect on August 12. That, Nintendo says, is a 260 per cent increase over the same 19-day period in July.
Overall more than 590,000 Nintendo systems - including 190,000 Wii consoles and 165,000 units of the ageing DS - were sold in August. More than 50 million games have been sold so far in 2011.
The theme of the latest Ludum Dare challenge was ‘escape’ - a little pedestrian given some of the previous competitions. With only 48 hours in which to make a game, ‘escape’ still worked its strange magic, though, and there were some fascinating – and often extremely polished – entries. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
Glissaria
Lee Miller
The theme of the latest Ludum Dare challenge was ‘escape’ - a little pedestrian given some of the previous competitions. With only 48 hours in which to make a game, ‘escape’ still worked its strange magic, though, and there were some fascinating – and often extremely polished – entries. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
Glissaria
Lee Miller
At first, it is as if scales are falling from your eyes. Fourteen years ago, no little imagination and faith were required to picture Star Fox 64’s rough polygons as an approximation of 3D, but now it is a reality: Fox McCloud and chums really are flying into the screen.
Market research firm NPD Group has revealed that US retail videogame spend fell 23 per cent last month.
Total US videogame sales in August were $669.9 million, a 23 per cent drop year on year. This is the fourth decline in as many months; only twice this year has NPD reported growth at retail.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the month's best-selling game despite only being on sale for five days in the month, as overall software sales fell 37 per cent to $285.9 million.