Fund manager says chief executive should go after data loss: "Sony lacks the ability to manage crises."
Howard Stringer, the Welsh-born chief executive of Sony Corporation, to step down over the company’s loss of over 100 million users’ personal data, according to a prominent investment fund manager.
Acquisition "frees us up to focus on the creative stuff that really matters," says Real Racing developer.
Rob Murray, CEO of Australian developer Firemint, says it is "business as usual" for the firm despite the studio’s acquisition by Electronic Arts.
Lawsuit brought on behalf of an estimated million affected Canadians; law firm seeks $1 billion in damages.
A Canadian law firm has commenced a proposed class action lawsuit against Sony over the loss of personal data resulting from the attack on PlayStation Network, and is seeking a billion dollars in damages by way of compensation.
We meet the Hollywood company behind gaming’s new breed of trailers.
Studio’s history of “tough games for hardcore gamers” will not apply to series’ return this year, developer says.
The upcoming Driver San Francisco will be “more accessible than any other Reflections game”, according to its developer.
Losses jump dramatically despite strong performance from Homefront, uDraw and WWE titles.
THQ has released its accounts for the last financial year, which show that the publisher sustained a loss of $136.1 million, fifteen times the $9m loss it reported the previous year.
During the course of the year net sales revenue was $665.3 million, a drop of 26 per cent year on year. For the three months ending March 31, net sales slumped 37 per cent to $124.2 million, while the firm’s losses quadrupled year on year, to $44.1 million.
Team restores Linux support a year after Sony removed it, with far greater access to the system than before.
Homebrew developers have released a custom firmware that sees the OtherOS function restored to PlayStation 3 consoles, just over a year after Sony removed the feature.
Project Café to ship with a mere 8GB of onboard flash memory, sources claim; game discs hold 25GB of data.
Nintendo’s Wii successor – codenamed Project Café – will not ship with a hard drive, according to reports.
Paris-based division to adapt the company's properties for film and television.
French videogame publisher and developer Ubisoft is launching a film and television arm to adapt its games. Dubbed Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the Paris-based division is headed up by Jean-Julien Baronnet who was previously the CEO of Luc Besson's film studio EuropaCorp. Didier Lupfer, who produced Gainsbourg, is in charge of production and development.
Melbourne-based Flight Control and Real Racing developer joins publisher's roster.
Electronic Arts has acquired Flight Control and Real Racing developer, Firemint. The publisher promises "an attractive future slate of games" from the Melbourne-based iOS developer. No details regarding the price of the acquisition were forthcoming.
Highlights from our community, featuring stolen credit card details and a digital-only future.
Firm says it cannot attend Wednesday committee hearing due to “ongoing investigation” into PSN attack.
Sony has responded to a request from the US House Of Representatives to attend a hearing concerning the loss of PSN users’ personal data, declining to attend but promising to answer a series of questions before today's deadline.
Firm ships 2.7 million Xbox 360s and 2.4 million Kinects as third-quarter sales revenue reaches $1.94 billion.
Microsoft’s financial results for the three months ending March 31 show a sharp improvement in its gaming business, with sales revenue across the Entertainment And Devices division up 60 per cent to $1.94 billion.
Back in EA Black Box’s hands, this winter’s Need For Speed to be powered by DICE’s Battlefield 3 engine.
Need For Speed The Run, the latest in the long-running EA racing series, is to use the Frostbite 2 engine.
In a press release EA confirmed that The Run, developed by Need For Speed Undercover and Skate studio EA Black Box, is to use the graphics engine created by Swedish developer DICE for the upcoming Battlefield 3.
“It’s a sacred and fragile thing, but you’re not going to make it sacred again unless you make that big leap.”
Crystal Dynamics, developer of the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, has said that the studio went back to the drawing board with the iconic series because it “felt necessary” to do so.
Success with Alan Wake DLC has CEO hoping for an all-digital future, even if it means the end of specialist retail.
Matias Myllyrinne, CEO of Finnish studio Remedy, says he is “really excited” about the opportunities digital distribution offers, and that “the sooner we go digital as an industry, the better.”
Lara Croft washes up on the shore of a new game in our latest issue, out May 10.
In issue 228 of Edge magazine, which will be available to pluck from UK newsagent’s shelves on May 10, we get marooned with Crystal Dynamics as it transforms one of gaming’s most cherished series, giving Lara Croft new life in Tomb Raider.
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A survey of the landscape and life forms that made Blizzard's MMOG the game of the decade.
Few games inspire the kind of deep nostalgia created by World Of Warcraft. Fewer still can make a playerbase so socially and culturally diverse as WOW’s reminisce so fondly at a past that’s only five years old.
No change at the top as EA-published sequel holds top spot at Mortal Kombat’s expense.
Portal 2 is the UK all-formats number one for the second week in a row, Valve’s excellent sequel once again seeing off the challenge of Warner Bros’ Mortal Kombat reboot.
The top ten is much the same as last week, with no new entries. Zumba Fitness continues its strong showing at number three, with Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Red River climbing two places to fourth.
Boosts social presence by snapping up San Francisco-based Facebook developer.
PopCap has strengthened the social gaming side of its business with the acquisition of San Francisco studio ZipZapPlay.
Services to begin return this week; Welcome Back programme to thank users for patience during downtime.
Kaz Hirai, executive deputy president of Sony, has apologised for the loss of the personal details of some 77 million PlayStation Network users and the service’s ongoing unavailability.
Admits potential loss of 24.6 million user accounts, 12,700 credit cards and 10,700 direct debit records.
Sony Online Entertainment’s game servers have been shut down temporarily, with the firm admitting that 12,700 users’ credit card data may have been taken during the recent attack on Sony’s servers.
We look at how Rockstar wrought havoc on an open world.
