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A $300 million investment in Bethesda Softworks parent ZeniMax Media will be used in part for the financing of MMOs.ZeniMax and Bethesda, creator of 2006's standout RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, will be using the funds from Providence Equity Partners for “future growth, increased game development and publishing, facilitation of acquisitions, and financing of massively multiplayer online games....
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Electronic Arts tells Next-Gen that recently reported layoffs are considered “routine restructuring. A report on the games blog Destructoid said Wednesday that an internal EA e-mail from an anonymous source indicated that layoffs were imminent.
“John Riccitiello, our CEO, has tasked the company to get its costs in line with revenues ... Every studio, group and division of the company has been tasked to review its overall headcount and adjust its organization to meet the needs of the business moving forward,” reads the e-mail, reportedly sent by EA Mythic VP Rob Denton.....
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BLOG—Okami is being ported to the Wii, but negative smack talk in the Capcom forums spurred Senior Director Christian Svensson to take a stand and bite back.Capcom’s showing a little spine these days, standing up in the forums for their decision to port Okami to the Wii. While many fans....
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Microsoft has reported a quarterly profit in the Xbox’s Entertainment and Devices Division, as the segment aims for its first full year of profitability.Microsoft posted unaudited operating income for its first quarter ended September 30 of $165 million in the Entertainment and Devices Division, compared to a loss last year of $142 million......
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BLOG—A loophole in a legal law might make previously banned game Manhunt 2 available in the UK for download, without going through the certification gauntlet.The controversy swirling around Manhunt 2 may just have slipped through a loophole.
A 1984 loophole in the UK’s Video Recordings Act says that downloaded games do not have to go through the certification possible that is subjected to retail games. This exception in the certification process may open up the possibility that a downloadable version of Manhunt 2, a game......
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We always said we'd cut off our left hand ring finger and replace it with a retractable blade to find out the Assassin's Creed release date. Fortunately, Ubisoft didn't make us keep our end of the..
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Sure, we may go crazy over Harmonix and Electronic Arts' love child Rock Band, but data from IGN's GamerMetrics reminds us that the franchise has a ways to go if it wants to overtake its distant cousin Guitar Hero III. ..
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Who even knows what Atari is these days? In name, it's the industry's aging celebrity, revered in memory as an icon, but presently transformed, made grotesque by a series of desperate facelifts. It's a facade now, a listless publishing subsidiary of Infogrames...
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Every other week Scott Jon Siegel contributes Off the Grid, a column normally about gaming away from the television screen or monitor.
I got a lot of interesting comments in response to last week's piece on.....
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Let there be cake. Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, which houses all things Xbox, has turned a profit. In the most recent quarter, the three months that ended September 30, the division had revenue of $1.929....
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Are those nasty pirates orchestrating their revenge after Nintendo sunk their chips earlier this week? According to a posting on NeoGAF, an unsavory EBGames employee decided to take the contents of an in-store Super Mario Galaxy demo disc and share it with the online world....
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But there's every chance that your upcoming and unrelentingly magnificent entry could convince us to send you one of ten copies of Konami's Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles. All you need is a pumpkin, a relatively sharp knife and a burst of creativity that doesn't result in amusingly.....
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Vollee's new tech streams full next-gen PC and console games to mobiles, and today three big publishers announce that they are on board. Can it work in the real world? It's an interesting idea backed by proprietary technology that sounds impressive in theory: bring new, full-fledged PC and console games to 3G mobile devices, and simultaneously release them with their big platform counterparts.
"We do this by running the shrink-wrapped PC or console game without any modification to the source code, take the video and sound out of those games and stream that experience down to mobile," explains Vollee CEO Martin Dunsby, speaking in the most general terms. The fat bandwidth of 3G networks allows for such technology.
“We can do things with online games, depth of gameplay, graphics, AI and physics that were just not possible with any kind of traditional Java download solution,” he says......
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Continuing from where we left off yesterday, we return to the subjects of history, educational games, and good old naval warfare with the Total War team Edge: So, you were saying that history's natural borders can be a help in the game design...
MS: It works tactically as well, because historically if someone invents something new for an edge, someone else tries to develop a counter for it.
JR: One of the areas where we’ve been very interested in fidelity is looking for a setting where the technology changes very quickly, and we use that to drive the technology in the game: in this case, we’re going from pike and shot all the way to the Napoleonic era.....
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BBC and Sony have signed a deal that will make the British driving program Top Gear available for download within Gran Turismo 5.Sony Computer Entertainment announced that 40 episodes of Top Gear will be made available worldwide on GT TV, a dedicated online channel accessible within the upcoming full version of Polyphony Digital’s GT5 in 2008.
Sony wants to make the partnership more of an interactive experience as well, recreating the weekly Top Gear Test Track (the highlighted track for each show) for gamers to drive within GT5....
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