Catherine is at its core a game about the nature of love, commitment and what ‘forever’ means when it’s past time to grow up. On the surface, however, it’s about choosing between two beautiful women – featuring the shabby sort of protagonist that always seems to end up with that particular double-edged dilemma.
Electronic Arts' ageing football title FIFA 11 is back on top of the Nordic chart, as last week's number one, LA Noire, slips seven places to eighth.
Harsh winters mean the domestic football leagues are still in full swing in the Nordic territories, and that combined with a budget re-release sees FIFA return to the summit despite the release of the next game in the series, FIFA 12, being only two months away.
The mountain known as The Throat of the World stands before us. It fills our vision – snow-coated escarpments, fog-smothered peaks and black claws of rock so massive, so tall, that the eye cannot absorb it in one go. It looks fierce, deadly and cold – and just looking at it, even from the bucolic haven of the valley below, we can already imagine the hiss and wail of wind, the oppressive, driving ice that will greet us as we journey to its top. And we will go there – up its 7,000 steps, through its frigid passes and over treacherous gale-blown ridges.
Capcom has released its financial results for the three months to June 30, which show a sharp rise in profits, despite falling sales revenue, thanks in large part to its growing mobile division.
Net sales totalled ¥11.9 billion (£93.86 million) for the quarter, a drop year on year of 37.2 per cent, but profits rose 58.2 per cent to ¥338 million (£2.6 million).
Capcom has released its financial results for the three months to June 30, which show a sharp rise in profits, despite falling sales revenue, thanks in large part to its growing mobile division.
Net sales totalled ¥11.9 billion (£93.86 million) for the quarter, a drop year on year of 37.2 per cent, but profits rose 58.2 per cent to ¥338 million (£2.6 million).
Earlier this week, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter made public his views on the ongoing crunch debate in the latest of his regular video Q&A sessions for Gametrailers. Pachter's typically outspoken comments have been met with strong criticism from within and without the industry: in an opinion piece yesterday, Ubisoft developer Charles Randall descibed the view that crunch was inevitable as "bullshit".
The reason for Nintendo's decision to cut the price of the 3DS worldwide is revealed in its latest financial results: only 710,000 units of its glasses-free 3D handheld were sold worldwide in the three months to June 30.
Following this morning's news that the price for Nintendo 3DS in Japan is to drop to ¥15,000 from August 11, a fall of 40 per cent, the company has announced that the same markdown will be applied worldwide.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the drops are to speed the handheld's market penetration in time for this winter and major releases including Super Mario 3Dland and Mario Kart 7.
Sony Corporation has released its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year, which reveals it was hit with a loss of ¥15.45 billion (£121.3 million). Over the same period last year it posted a profit of ¥25.6 billion (£201 million).
The Consumer Products and Services division, which includes Sony's PlayStation business, saw sales revenue fall almost 18 per cent to ¥732.3 billion (£5.75 billion) and operating income fall by a staggering 94.1 per cent to ¥1.7 billion (£13.35 million).
THQ has reported a disappointing set of results for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011, citing lower than expected sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and several licensed kids titles.
The company posted a net loss of $38.4 million for the three months, compared with a loss of $30.1 million during the same period the previous year. Net sales came in at $195.2 million, up from $149.4 million a year earlier.