Amsterdam, Holland-based Playlogic has posted increased losses and a decline in both revenues and gross profit for the nine months ended September 30.
The Age Of Pirates and Obscure publisher saw a net loss of $6.7 million (£4m) during the period, compared with a loss of $2 million (£1.2m) a year earlier. The company suffered a net loss of $3.2 million (£1.9m) during the third quarter, versus $3 million (£1.8m) last year.
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EA Montreal General Manager Alain Tascan has told us that EA Montreal — as part of the EA Games label — is to refocus the studio on "action titles and HD-quality products" compared to its recent history of Wii titles such as Boogie Superstar and Skate It.
It's more evidence of the restructuring plan EA announced with its recent decision to make 1500 layoffs and purchase of Playfish.
Square Enix's Tokyo developers are to work on the cinematics for Eidos Montreal's upcoming Deus Ex sequel, the studio's general manager Stephane D'Astous told us.
"Deus Ex 3 is going to be the first project which will be a concrete product of joint effort between Square Enix and Eidos," said D'Astous. "The cinematics—by which I mean any CGI pre-rendered cinematics — are going to be done in Tokyo by Square Enix, and that's going to be amazing."
Zynga has announced that more than 100 million unique users now play its social games monthly, “making it the largest online game destination”.
The company says that it has 200 million active monthly users across all its titles, which include FarmVille, Mafia Wars and FishVille, with one million users purchasing virtual goods each month.
Third party accessory maker Datel Design & Development has launched an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft over the platform holder’s decision to lock out unlicensed memory cards on the Xbox 360.
Nintendo has announced two limited edition bundles to be released on Black Friday, which marks the traditional start to the Christmas shopping season in the US.
Consumers will be able to purchase metallic blue or white DSi systems pre-installed with over $20 of software from November 27 until stock runs out.
The metallic blue DSi will come with five Mario-themed DSiWare titles: Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again, Dr. Mario Express, WarioWare: Snapped!, Mario Calculator and Mario Clock.
Wii sales were up 60 per cent in the UK last week, according to Nintendo.
The platform holder said that sales of the limited edition black Wii, released on November 6, doubled week-on-week, helping the platform lead home console sales during the period.
ArenaNet founder and former NCsoft president of product development Jeff Strain has formed a new studio called Undead Labs.
The Seattle, Washington-based studio is “on a mission to take online gaming in bold new directions”, beginning with its in development zombie MMO for consoles.
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and the Entertainment Software Association have backed a new $2 million open competition launched by the MacArthur Foundation to find creative ideas to transform learning using digital media.
Activision’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 retained the top spot on UK all formats chart during the week ended November 21, despite an 86 per cent drop in sales compared to its first seven days.
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II debuted in second place, having outperformed 2007’s original by around 12 per cent in terms of unit sales, according to GfK Chart-Track.
With the sumptuous looking Critter Crunch having just hit the European PSN Store, Nathan Vella, president of developer Capybara Games, spoke at Montreal Game Summit about the company managed to create its Miyazaki-quality artwork on the shoestring budget of an independent development studio.
Fresh details about Xbox 360’s upcoming motion sensing camera, Project Natal, are likely to be revealed at two Gamefest conference sessions in February 2009.
A Natal design track will focus on developing ideas “to help you take your game from office to living room - creating new ways to work, building showcase experiences, divining user intent, and designing gestures for UI versus game interactions”.
Apologies for the late appearance of last week's Games Index, due to Edge Online's site outage on Friday. Please note that the chart games are taken from last Monday's UK top ten selling games.
Every week, the Edge Games Index, produced in association with Brandwatch, rates games according to the volume of positive and negative buzz they're inspiring on the web.
US media watchdog the National Institute on Media and the Family (NIMF) is to close on December 31 due to a lack of funding.
NIMF was founded in 1996 “to educate and inform the public, and to encourage practices and policies that promote positive change in the production and use of mass media”.
Nintendo launched the DSi LL this weekend in Japan, generating queues for the product at a number of stores.
Around 100 consumers were waiting in line at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara when the store opened on Saturday, while the queue was over 60 strong at Bic Camera in Tokyo's Ikebukuro, according to Famitsu (via Kotaku).
PS3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has surpassed one million sales “in just a couple weeks on the market,” according to publisher Sony.
"Uncharted 2 has become the highest rated current exclusive action adventure game on any platform with a Metacritic score of 96," Sony Computer Entertainment's senior VP of strategic business development, Phil Rosenberg, said at the BMO Capital Markets Digital Entertainment Conference.
Social networking sites Facebook and Twitter are to be made publicly available on Xbox 360 on November 17, Microsoft has confirmed.
The features will be free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers but won't be accessibe to those under the age of 18.
Konami’s World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 debuted atop the Japanese software chart during the week ended November 8.
The PS3 version of the football title moved 218 000 copies in its first week – the Xbox 360 edition charted at 22 – to comfortably outsell Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver and Wii Fit Plus, which shifted 73,000 and 70,000 units respectively.
PS3 was the bestselling individual hardware platform in Japan during the week ended November 8.
A 13,000 jump in weekly sales saw Sony’s home console overtake DSi, which took second place ahead of PSP-3000.
Sony’s handheld platform managed to outsell Nintendo’s when taking into account sales of all models, despite the fact that PSPgo sales more than halved during the portable’s second week on the market.
Weekly hardware sales (previous week):
PS3 - 48,925 (36,061)
DSi - 37,421 (37,517)
“Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment,” according to publisher Activision.
Having released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 10, the Infinity Ward developed shooter sold approximately 4.7 million copies in North America and the United Kingdom in its first 24 hours of availability, generating $310 million, the company estimated.
Xbox 360 sales have reached ten million across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in four years, Microsoft has announced.
The platform holder also said that Xbox 360 is the only console to achieve year-on-year growth across the region this year, based on figures from sales monitor GfK Chart-Track. Additionally, Microsoft research has found that 35 per cent of Xbox customers are women and 64 per cent are over the age of 25.
Square Enix's RPG will launch on March 9 next year on both PS3 and 360.
Announced at the end of a video hosted on the game's official site, the date for the game's European and north American release was accompanied by the news that X-Factor winner Leona Lewis will be singing the game's theme tune.
With FFXIII due for release in Japan on PS3 only on December 17, the gap between regional releases is the shortest in the series' history.
Nintendo and BBC will launch dedicated channel for on-demand TV and radio content with improved features on November 18.
The new version of the service, which has been available to Wii through its Internet Channel since April 2008, will feature improvements including a full-screen interface. It's a similar move to the one that saw iPlayer appear as a separate menu item with PS3's 3.0 firmware update in September.
