Following the runaway success of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Sega has announced it is currently developing the inevitable sequel.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is set for release in late 2009, just in time for the frosty Christmas shopping season and a couple of months before the XXI Olympic Winter Games, held in Vancouver on February 12-28.
Namco Bandai has reported slight year-on-year gains for the third fiscal quarter, though not enough to alleviate the annual losses it has suffered through the whole financial year.
Net income for the third quarter alone was slightly up from the year prior, taking ¥7.7 billion for the three-month period. That boosts its FY09 net income so far to just above ¥9 billion, yet the publisher is still trailing last year’s performance by 38 percent.
When Crytek saw that U.K.-based Free Radical Design was in trouble, the German studio, known for Crysis, saw an opportunity.
Free Radical, the studio behind the first-person TimeSplitters shooter franchise and founded by key developers of the revered Goldeneye 007 for N64, had locked its doors in mid-December, just before the holiday, laying off the majority of staff.
Consoles and PC systems should feature a “red button” that would allow parents to control the flow of game content that their children consume.
This was one offering from a report adopted by the Euro Parliament Internal Market Committee.
It’s fair to say that the founders of Metacritic never foresaw it generating the attention it has attracted. Intended as a way of seeing at a glance whether a game was worth buying, it’s now used as a measure of game quality by the largest publishers, developers and retailers.
John Riccitiello has used its scores to define EA’s business strategy to analysts; Steam prominently displays them on its product pages; developer Frontier uses them for sales forecasting.
Stardock, the PC game publisher behind Ironclad Games' acclaimed Sins of a Solar Empire, has received "close to a million dollar tax credit" from its home state of Michigan, and will be opening a second studio, a rep has told Edge.
The rep said in an e-mail that the new studio will create about 50 new jobs "very soon"--good news amidst mounting job losses across the nation and within the games industry.
We expect to have more from the developer regarding the new studio and tax credit later today.
Publisher Take-Two and subsidiary Rockstar San Diego are returning to the Wild West after five years.
The companies announced Wednesday Red Dead Redemption, the sequel to the 2004 Western-inspired shooter Red Dead Revolver. The new entry will arrive on PS3 and Xbox 360 in fall this year
Rockstar San Diego was also the studio behind the original game.
Described as a "Western epic," players experience the story of former outlaw John Marston in an open-world environment set during the turn of the 20th century.
On Wednesday, Crytek finally emerged to confirm reports earlier this week that it purchased all assets and business of Nottingham, U.K.-based TimeSplitters creator Free Radical Design.
The studio, which will become Crytek U.K., will be the Frankfurt, Germany-based game maker's fifth locale, and its first U.K. studio.
Please have a look at this post on my work blog about the project that I have been supporting in a school in the Orkney Islands. They have been using Professor Layton for the DS. Enjoy...
Just I was getting in to my Korg DS-10 for the Nintendo DS in order to support a possible trial in schools I find out that it's to be discontinued. Sheesh! What can a man interested in games based learning do when he see something a little bit special albeit it seems with minimal mass market appeal (look at Electroplankton), and then it gets pulled. There is an issue here in terms of people working to support schools and make recommendations for software to use when there is the distinct chance that what you find of great use may not be available after a certain date. What use is that?
I fear that wonderful titles such as Endless Ocean may also go this way. It seems such a pity when it is clearly a superb teaching and learning resource. What, if anything, can be done to ensure that schools can still access these resources?
Well, for those of you who missed it here's what you could have done with it. Ryuchi Sakamoto eat your heart out!
