EA CEO John Riccitiello has defended Medal Of Honor in the face of controversy over the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming shooter’s multiplayer modes.
Sony announces September 21 release date for firmware 3.50, adding further 3D functionality to its console.
Speaking at TGS 2010, Sony has announced that PS3 firmware 3.50 will be released on September 21, adding support for 3D Blu-ray disc playback. The functionality will sit alongside existing stereoscopic 3D games already available for the console.
Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg has said that the company expects to sell three million Kinect units worldwide this holiday season.
"Our estimates [are] that we will sell in excess of three million units this holiday," the exec told Gamasutra, adding that Microsoft is spending "hundreds of millions" of dollars marketing the device, "exceeding in what we did when we launched the original Xbox 360.
Uprated versions of Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus heading for Sony's console next spring.
Speaking at TGS 2010, Fumito Ueda has confirmed that the long rumoured re-release of Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus for PS3 will go ahead next year. Both games will be released on a single disc, echoing the recent re-release of the first two God Of War titles.
Sony reveals that the latest game from the team behind Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus is scheduled for a "holiday 2011" release.
Microsoft used its Tokyo Game Show keynote to announce five new Xbox 360 Kinect exclusive games and and two downloadable titles from renowned Japanese developers.
A mixture of fresh IP and new entries in classic franchises, the titles were weighted towards core gamers and will all be available in 2011.
First day Halo: Reach sales generated $200 million, according to publisher Microsoft.
"We feel really good about where the Halo: Reach numbers are," Phil Spencer, vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, told Reuters.
Atari has appointed John Hayase as senior vice president of product development.
Formerly executive producer at EA Visceral Studios and GM of EA China, and most recently studio head at Sony Online Entertainment, Hayase will oversee all of Atari’s development studios including Cryptic and Eden Games, reporting to CEO Jeff Lapin.
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has revealed the latest lifetime Japanese sales figures for PSP, DS, Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Sony’s handheld had sold 15,009,120 units as of September 12, the last day of the firm’s most recent tracking period, while DS sales stood at 31,039,215, Wii sales at 10,655,962, PS3 sales at 5,501,923, and Xbox 360 sales at 1,354,685.
Capcom has acquired Vancouver-based Dead Rising 2 developer Blue Castle Games.
Global head of production Keiji Inafune made the announcement at Tokyo Game Show today, adding that future Capcom games will combine Japanese and Western flavours, according to Joystiq.
Capcom’s announced that it’s collaborating with UK-based Enslaved developer Ninja Theory on a new entry in the Devil May Cry series.
In development for Xbox 360 and PS3, creative direction is being undertaken by Ninja Theory boss Tameen Antionades and overseen by Hedeaki Itsuno, who has worked on all previous titles in the series, which has sold over ten million units.
World Of Warcraft fans have two weeks to enter a contest that could see them win a trip for two to Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon 2010 convention in Anaheim, California.
Four years after selling Killzone developer Guerrilla Games to Sony Computer Entertainment, original co-founders Martin de Ronde (pictured) and Michiel Mol have reunited to form Vanguard Entertainment Group.
The Netherlands-based firm merges de Ronde and Mol’s online games production company Karami with PSN and XBLA developer W! Games, creator of Greed Corp and My Horse & Me.
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Release: October 22
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EA chief financial officer Eric Brown has said that there’s been “no significant” consumer backlash to the company’s Online Pass system.
Designed as a means to combat used game sales and as a way to recoup costs associated with operating gameplay servers, the Online Pass system requires second hand buyers of EA Sports games to pay to access online services.
Electronic Arts and Japanese developer Grasshopper Manufacture today unveiled Shadows Of The Damned, a new psychological action thriller game from No More Heroes director Suda51 and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.
Scheduled for release next summer on Xbox 360 and PS3, Shadows Of The Damned “follows a demon hunter deep into a hyper-twisted re-imagining of hell where he must rescue the love of his life by defeating the armies of darkness with the power of the light”.
Take-Two CEO Ben Feder expects many young Wii owners to “graduate” to HD gaming experiences on PS3 and Xbox 360 following the launches of new motion control offerings Move and Kinect.
EA has revealed the results of a study conducted by Nielsen designed to show the degree to which in-game ads can boost real life sales.
Trials HD has surpassed one million sales since launching on August 12, 2009 on Xbox Live Arcade.
Spil Games and Google are to host an HTML5 game jam in Hilversum, the Netherlands on the weekend of October 9-10, 2010.
Beginning with talks on the technology followed by game pitches, the event will give developers the chance to share best practices and create games over a 32 hour period.
PopCap Games has partnered with NCsoft to launch its first ever online multiplayer social games service in Korea later this year.
The company said that it’s aiming to “redefine casual games in Korea and beyond” with the new platform, PopCap World, which is the first product to be developed and released by its Shanghai studio.
JAMMA is traditionally the bigger of Japan's two annual arcade trade shows and despite the notable absence of many key-players, this year was no different. The lack of Konami, Capcom, Atlus and Cave was offset by busy stands from Sega, Namco Bandai and Taito, but it was the changing face of the industry that made the strongest impression.
THQ has lowered its forecast for the financial year ending March 31, 2011 after delaying the release of Red Faction Armageddon.
Owing primarily to its decision to push the title back from March to May 2011, the publisher lowered its revenue guidance from $845-$865 million to $800-$825 million, and it now forecasts a non-GAAP loss per share in the range of $0.10-$0.20, down from break-even.
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Nintendo is celebrating Mario’s 25th anniversary, the iconic plumber having made his videogame debut in the original Super Mario Bros. in Japan on September 13, 1985.
The game has sold 40.24 million units worldwide, while the long-running franchise has gone on to sell more than 240 million units globally, making it “the best-selling video game series of all time”, according to the platform holder.