3D Realms has shot down reports that the studio has closed, although company representatives have confirmed staff layoffs at the Duke Nukem developer.
"Despite rumors and statements to the contrary, 3D Realms (3DR) has not closed and is not closing," reads a 3D Realms statement posted on Gamasutra.
SouthPeak has reported strong growth for the third quarter of its financial year ended March 31, 2009.
Revenues leapt to $13.5 million (£8.81m), from $2.2 million (£1.44m) during the comparable quarter in 2008, while profit totaled $289,000 (£189,000), up from $20,000 (£13,000).
The release of Cryptic Studios' subscription-based superhero MMO Champions Online has been delayed, the company has confirmed.
The PC and Xbox 360 game will now launch on September 1 and not on July 14 as previously planned, according to a statement on the developer’s website.
The Sims 3, one of EA’s major 2009 releases, has seemingly been leaked online two weeks before its official US launch on June 2.
Torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay is currently carrying a number of Sims 3 files weighing in at around 5GB. Numerous users claim to have downloaded the files and have vouched for their authenticity.
The news comes shortly after Sims Division head Rod Humble said that the game wouldn’t require online activation to play.
Activision has officially announced the return of the Tony Hawk franchise.
Featuring a wireless, motion sensing skateboard controller allowing gamers “to physically play the game,” Tony Hawk: Ride will release this autumn.
"Tony Hawk: Ride is a massive step forward for the franchise and the gaming industry as a whole," said Rob Kostich, Activision’s head of marketing and global brand management.
Norway-based Funcom has reported a jump in sales and profit for the first quarter of the financial year.
Sales hit $7.725 million (£5.05m), up from $963,000 (£630,000) during the first quarter of 2008, “mainly due to subscription revenues and revenues from box sales from the Age of Conan game,” while profit leapt from $919,000 (£601,000) to $1.47 million (£961,350).
Development of Arkane Studios' and Valve's FPS The Crossing has been suspended.
Powered by Valve's Source engine, the shooter promised to fuse the worlds of single and multiplayer to create "crossplayer," but was reportedly put on hold after Arkane ran into financial troubles.
Wii Fit has spent a seventh consecutive week at the top of the UK all formats chart, taking its tally of number one finishes to 16, just two short of the record held by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
FIFA 09 jumped one place to second, ahead of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, while Call Of Duty: World At War moved up three spots to fourth and Mario Kart Wii was a non-mover at number five.
3D Realms co-founder Scott Miller has denied reports that the developer received cash from Take-Two when the publisher picked up the rights to Duke Nukem Forever.
According to Miller, 3D Realms saw none of the $12 million Take-Two paid Infogrames for publishing rights to the title back in 2000.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says that the company plans to expand its business into the movie special effects market.
“We want to create the capacity to develop special effects for movies. Those worlds have to merge more and more,” he told the Financial Times. “We don’t want to make movies, but the expertise we have is key to creating special effects, graphics and animation.”
Microsoft's chief technology officer J Allard filed a patent application for a “magic wand” device in November 2007, it has emerged.
According to the patent application, the device can "utilise one or more sensor from a collection of sensors to determine an orientation or gesture in connection with the wand.”
Ronimo isn’t just a new game company, it’s a newly graduated game company too, and its approach to the intricacies of getting its first title out the door seems refreshingly innocent. Ronimo’s founders met while studying at the Utrecht School of Arts, where they worked on De Blob, a university project focused on a proposed redesign of Utrecht’s railway station in which players guided a lump of paint around the city centre.
The Golden Joystick Awards has seen a record-breaking 150,000 votes cast in just two weeks of long list voting.
All of the major categories have been fiercely competitive and several of them look set to go down to the wire, but there’s still time to have your say in the outcome before long list voting closes next Friday, May 22.
Head over to the Golden Joystick Awards website now to register your vote.
It’s painful to watch as Theo Faron drags himself out of his jaded, selfish mire in the film Children of Men. His ex-wife offers him a chance to help her rebel cause, but he refuses until she’s also offering cash. Time and again he opts to watch his own back, until the stakes are so high, the values become so close to his heart, that he finally undertakes those outrageous risks and makes sacrifices for what he believes is important.
