Evidence has emerged that sequels to Sucker Punch’s Infamous and Insomniac’s Resistance 2 are in the works.
Voice actor David Sullivan said in a recent Twitter post that he was auditioning for the lead role of Cole in a sequel to open-world action title Infamous, which launched exclusively for PS3 in May 2009.
Sony Ericsson has launched the PS3 compatible Aino mobile phone handset.
The device offers Remote Play functionality, enabling users to access and control their PS3 media content on the go via a local network or the internet.
GameStop director Leonard Riggio has sold 2.3 million shares in the US retailer, worth $60.2 million.
Following the sale, Riggio holds 9.1 million shares, or a 5.5 per cent stake in the company. He is also the founder and chairman of Barnes & Noble, which once owned GameStop. He holds a 31 per cent stake in the firm valued at around $369.1 million.
Spokespeople for GameStop and Barnes & Noble told Barron's that Riggio sold the shares for tax planning reasons.
Trials HD and TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-Shelled were September’s top-selling titles on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network respectively.
RedLynx’s Trials HD, which has sold over 300,000 copies since releasing on August 12, took the top spot on the XBLA chart for four out of five weeks during the month.
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The counter says “Attempt 67”. Grant is biting his fist and I’m miming at him to just keep quiet. This could be the one and we can all go home. Rob jumps, bashes his head again at exactly the same spot and we all let out a groan. “Attempt 68”...
Wii Play has sold 11.1 million copies in the US since launch, making it North America’s top-selling game this decade.
Former members of Microsoft’s Aces Studio have founded Cascade Game Foundry, a new Washington-based developer intent on broadening the simulation market.
“Not only will Cascade Game Foundry address the significant hole in the simulation market left by Microsoft’s recent departure, it will push new boundaries with the latest in cutting-edge graphics, simulation and web technology,” the company said.
All former Oxygen Games employees have been recruited by sales and distribution firm OG International.
Headed by ex-Oxygen boss Jim Scott, OG also acquired the general interest and family game publisher’s IP and stock after it went into administration earlier this week, reports MCV.
Blitz Games Studios’ 1UP label has signed three new titles, greenlit four more and appointed Neil Holmes as producer.
One of the latest titles to sign up with the label – which aims to help smaller teams get their games to market - is 3D puzzler Mole Control from new studio Remode Limited.
Chinese online games revenues hit 6.18 billion yuan ($906m/£576m)) during the second quarter, up 39.5 per cent year-on-year, according to data released on Tuesday by research firm Analysys International.
Free-to-play games operator Tencent Holdings held 20.2 per cent of the market and generated 1.24 billion yuan in revenues, reports Reuters.
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Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy has pledged to support the country’s games developers by whatever means possible.
After it was reported that tax holidays for game creators could tempt leading Scottish studios like Realtime Worlds to relocate to Ireland, Murphy said that new local tax relief measures could be introduced.
EA’s FIFA 10 held the top spot on the UK all formats chart during the week ended October 10 despite a 64 per cent drop in sales.
Last week the publisher said that the footy game had become the fastest selling sports title ever, moving 1.7 million copies in its first week in Europe.
PC- and Mac-based digital download retailer says charts will add credibility to digital download marketplace.
Rich Keen, marketing director of Direct2Drive, told MCV that he felt that the establishment of sales charts for digital downloads was an important step for the marketplace to progress.
UK-based general interest and family game publisher goes into administration.
The company, whose highest profile release was Rebellion Developments’ PDC World Championship Darts 2009 in May, released the following statement:
"We would like to confirm that Oxygen Interactive Software Ltd has been placed into administration and that we have appointed FA Simms & Partners Ltd as administrators, who will be writing to creditors as soon as possible."
Limitless choice doesn’t always equate to limitless pleasure, as anyone who’s ever spent a bus ride shuffling fruitlessly through the entirety of their record collection will understand. With well over 6,000 games already available on the App Store, it often feels like it’s getting harder to find something worth spending your cash on. This, then, is a list like few others: light on most traditional genres, and overflowing with strange new strains of gaming, from abstract assault courses to maths puzzlers and wrapping challenges.
Nintendo Of America president asks 'Who's it for?' and 'What's the benefit?' of Sony’s PSP refit.
Speaking with the Washington Post, Fils-Aime said of the download-only handheld, "I have the utmost respect for all our competitors, but it's interesting to try and answer the consumer question of 'What's in it for me?' in that product."
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Release: 1982
Publisher: Gottlieb
Developer: Warren Davis/Jeff Lee
Chief Creative Director Richard Hilleman will deliver speech about how new ways of playing videogames are creating new audiences.
His talk will lead Unite 2009, a conference dedicated to the increasingly popular 3D engine for browsers and iPhone that will take place October 27-30 in San Francisco.
Hilleman is a long-time EA employee who worked on the original Madden game and was instrumental to establishing the EA Sports label.
Flip range, in conjunction with book publishers Penguin and Egmont Press, will launch December 4.
Each cartridge will feature six to eight different books by various high profile authors. The first set of titles will include Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Wood series, B.Strange’s Too Ghoul For School series and Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series.
Flips are designed to feel like reading a book, with pages flipping over, but will feature various extra components, from unlockable bonus content, quizzes, sound effects and character profiles.
Darkness, light, heaven, earth and sea. Sun, moon, grass, fish and fowl. And then, just six days in, comes man. Player one takes the stage and the creation process is complete. Black & White is a game that from the off does little to discourage Christian parallels, whether it’s the swirling darkness and light of the opening sequence or the conventional cloud-perching, snow-bearded deity who represents your good conscience. It may be a convenient shorthand, but Black & White took the god-game label more seriously than ever before.
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I’m not a person, I’m a letter.
But DSi retains top placing in Japanese weekly hardware sales chart for the week ending October 4.
That said, DSi’s sales figures were down 1,000 while PSP enjoyed 34,000 more sales compared to last week’s figures. It’s hardly a surprise, with PSP-3000 taking a 15 per cent price cut in the region on October 1.
All 61 staff from Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows developer affected by latest round in Activision cutbacks.
A statement from the publisher stated, “Activision continually evaluates the resources at our studio properties to ensure that they are properly matched to our product slate and overall strategic goals.
"As part of this process, we recently made the difficult but necessary decision to close Shaba Studios. We are grateful for the studio's contributions and wish this talented team success in their future endeavors.”
The trouble with ‘myth-busting’ studio visits is that they all too often become myth-affirming. Whether out of need, defiance or simple denial, sometimes a developer actually believes that the way to silence critics is to show them more of what they doubted in the first place. So it’s with some trepidation that we walk through the gates of Ealing Studios, currently home to the next St Trinian’s movie, to find out if WarDevil, a game that most people still associate with a 2004 technical teaser clip, is anything more than CGI fluff.