Unity Technologies is celebrating a number of milestones as its Unity development platform reaches its fifth anniversary.
The company’s free Unity web player has seen 30 million installs, with more than 170,000 developers using the technology.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced that the company's next generation smartphone, iPhone 4, will launch later this month.
“In 2007 iPhone reinvented what we thought of as a smartphone. It's hard to remember what it was like. It was really different before the iPhone," he said at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, as reported by Engadget.
Zynga’s massively popular farm simulation game FarmVille and a new entry in Activision’s market leading music title Guitar Hero have just been announced for iPhone at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference San Francisco.
Popular US movie streaming service Netflix is to launch on the iPhone this summer.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took to the stage at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco to make the announcement.
"We just launched Netflix for the iPad, and it's been a huge success. It's the #1 most downloaded in entertainment apps. But I'm happy to announce Netflix for iPhone coming this summer, for free."
The conference is ongoing, so we’ll update this story with further details as they’re made available.
Taiwan-based Foxconn has announced plans to increase wages in China for the second time in less than a week.
Ten employees at the company’s giant complex in Shenzhen, China, which employs around 350,000 mostly migrant workers, have committed suicide over the past few months.
A five year investigation by Japan’s Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association (CESA) has found that DS and PSP piracy cost the industry over 3.816 trillion yen (£28.8b / $41.6b) in lost sales between June 2004 and June 2009.
The study, conducted by Tokyo Game Show organiser CESA in conjunction with Tokyo University's Baba Lab, monitored downloads of the top 20 software titles in Japan across 114 leading piracy sites.
Racing games are all about driving well. Burnout 3: Takedown is all about driving badly. But driving badly well. Confused?
Electronic Arts is facing a trademark lawsuit over fitness sequel EA Sports Active 2.0.
Active Networks, a California-based firm offering fitness services, is hoping to block the release of the PS3, Wii and iPhone game, which is scheduled for release later this year.
A class action lawsuit has been brought against Sony and Square Enix over copies of Final Fantasy XIII that are said to have caused “drastic damage” to PS3 consoles.
Filed by California resident Daniel Wolf early this month “on behalf of all purchasers of Final Fantasy XIII for PS3”, the suit alleges that the game has caused "severe and widespread damage" to numerous consoles since launching on March 9, 2010.
Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption has claimed the number one spot on the UK all formats chart for a third consecutive week.
The Sims 3: Ambitions was the only new title to enter the top ten dring the week ended June 5, debuting at six.
FIFA World Cup 2010 was up one place to second, with UFC Undisputed 2010 moving down to third, while Just Dance and Wii Fit Plus rounded off the top five.
Cloud gaming service OnLive will reportedly launch in the US this month, but it won’t be available to UK consumers until late 2011, according to British Telecom.
“Over time, as consumer broadband connectivity increases and as games become more complex, we expect cloud-based distribution models for gaming to become increasingly attractive and mainstream,” a BT spokesperson told PCR.
Non-profit publisher OneBigGame has revealed the follow up to its debut title Chime.
Games industry charity GamesAid has revealed launch details for an upcoming PS3 triple pack featuring Tomb Raider: Underworld, Sega Superstars Tennis and Fuel.
Going on sale on June 25, the pack will retail for £29.99, with at least 50 per cent of the cover price going to GamesAid charities.
The three titles have been donated by publishers Square Enix, Sega and Codemasters, and the initiative supported by Sony.
Japanese musician and game developer Masaya Matsuura, showed off a new charity game at his keynote for the NLGD Festival of Games in Utrecht, Netherlands. The Nanaon-Sha head, who is often credited with creating the music rhythm game genre with PaRappa The Rapper, explained that standard game production does not lead to originality.
Sega West president Mike Hayes says EA’s new online gaming and DLC strategy is a “very clever idea” that the Sonic publisher is keeping a close eye on.
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The deepest pleasures of Above come from juxtapositioning. Axolot’s one-'button' iPhone game takes a very simple idea, and lavishes it with an art style of pretty intricacy, piling on the visual detailing while the game stretches the same basic mechanic over levels that can take a quarter of an hour to play.
Chinese online game developer and publisher Shanda Games has reported a ten per cent year-over-year increase in revenues for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.
Revenues hit RMB 1,143.2 million (£114.5m / $167.5m), with MMO and casual game sales up eight and seven per cent respectively.
However, the company’s operating income fell six per cent year-over-year to RMB 378.1 million ($55m / £37.9m).
Red Dead Redemption steals Modern Warfare 2's crown as the most talked-about game on the web.
The total volume of chatter about Rockstar's western might have abated by nearly 8,000, but it still beats Activision's perennial to the tune of 1,000 mentions.
UK Sales Chart June 1
Handhelds continued to dominate hardware sales in Japan during the week ended May 30.
PSP-3000 remained the individual bestseller, while PSPgo was again stuck at the bottom of the rankings.
FarmVille maker Zynga has continued its recent spending spree with the acquisition of social game developer Challenge Games.
Effective immediately, the Challenge Games office will become Zynga Austin. The studio currently has 35 employees.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 has made a strong start in Japan, comfortably topping the software chart during the week ended May 30.
The Wii exclusive sold 340,000 copies in its first three days on the market, bettering the performance of 2007’s original, which shifted 250,585 units in its opening week.
Former Hudson Entertainment president John Greiner has established MonkeyPaw Games, a new publisher focused on bringing "real Japanese games" to western markets.
Greiner is a 20 year industry veteran who previously oversaw the US launch of the TurboGrafx-16 platform, in the process bringing over Japanese titles like Adventure Island, Military Madness and Bomberman.
Frontier Developments chairman David Braben has criticised Activision for its treatment of Call Of Duty creator Infinity Ward.
US retailer GameStop has announced a series of executive promotions designed to help drive the company’s expansion plans and efforts in the digital space.
CEO Daniel DeMatteo has become executive chairman and will continue to define the firm’s brick and mortar and digital initiatives.
Chief operating officer J. Paul Raines has assumed the role of CEO, in which he’ll work closely with DeMatteo to develop GameStop’s long-term strategic direction and lead the management team.
Gears Of War might not be the first videogame that springs to mind when talk turns to innovative narrative, but Epic is anxious for the culmination of its million-selling series to resonate with players' emotions as well as their trigger fingers.