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Free-to-play Call of Duty Online targets China
0By: Moses Abaortae | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Activision’s entry in the F2P market is hoping to tap into the emerging and “exciting” Chinese market with Call of Duty Online. Free-to-play gaming has seen a boom in interest after getting off to a fairly slow start with only a handful of publishers showing any intention of entering the market. However, many have followed Electronic Arts’ example since then with Ubi...
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Lollipop Chainsaw makers considering player feedback to shape new project Killer Is Dead
By: Jason McCarthy | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Yoshimi Yasuda, CEO of Kadokawa Games, has confirmed that the fans’ feedback on Lollipop Chainsaw is being taken into consideration by the publisher to shape the development of the upcoming game Killer Is Dead. In an interview with the Japanese gaming news website Impress Watch, Yasuda revealed that his company is working in collaboration with Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goic...
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Funcom’s CEO Trond Arne Aas steps down to take on a different role in the company
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Trond Arne Aas has stepped down from the position of Funcom’s CEO and instead decided to serve as a Strategic Advisor to the Board and also take on the role of Chief Strategy Officer. The decision was taken by the long term CEO of the Norwegian video game developer after the launch of the modern-day massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) titled The Secret Wor...
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Demand for digital distribution of games on the rise in the United States
By: Musa Afridi | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
A recent survey of 8,500 gamers revealed that an increasing number of consumers prefer digital downloads to regular retail channels as the figure went up by 10% from last year. NPD, a well known and reputed analytics firm, ran a survey of a sample size of 8,500 gamers and revealed an interesting trend in how consumers preferred to purchase their content, which includes both gam...
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EA to consider Battlefield 3 Premium-like services for more company properties
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Electronic Arts (EA) Labels president Frank Gibeau has confirmed that the publisher could consider introducing Battlefield 3 Premium-like services into other games as well in the future. He conceded that the response to the recently launched paid-DLC has encouraged the company to integrate such services into other products as well. Such post-launch content and services seem to ...
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PlayStation 4, Xbox 720 may require more than 50GB storage space on discs
By: Musa Afridi | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Square Enix’s chief technical officer, Yoshihisa Hashimoto, believes that Blu-Ray discs may not be enough to house next-gen games on their own. Nintendo may have unveiled their next generation home console, the Wii U, but all eyes remain fixed on Microsoft and Sony as neither of the platform developers has even whispered anything regarding their consoles apart from the fact t...
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LittleBigPlanet dev working on a number of new IPs
By: Moses Abaortae | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Media Molecule has teased that it is early stages of development of a number of new titles. However, they did not specify which console they were developing for. Anyone who is familiar with the PlayStation brand will have heard of the LittleBigPlanet series. With two core titles, LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2, having been released to both critical and financial success ...
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Dota 2 updated, two new characters added along with few fixes and enhancements
By: Jason McCarthy | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
In the latest update for Defense of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2), two more heroes have made their way into the huge cast of characters to choose from. The new update also introduces a number of gameplay, visual and user interface (UI) fixes and enhancements to the game with the intended motivation of maintaining a balanced gameplay and removing bugs that had sneaked into the action ...
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Eidos boss describes media reaction to Tomb Raider as “extreme”
By: Musa Afridi | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Ian Livingstone, the head of the studio developing the reboot of the series, has spoken out against those who have blown the alleged ‘rape’ scene out of proportion. There are a number of reboots going on in the world of interactive entertainment and entertainment itself. Spider-Man’s ‘Amazing’ reboot hit cinemas recently and a Superman reboot is also said to be in the...
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Battlefield Premium is not a “reaction” to Call of Duty Elite – EA
By: Musa Afridi | July 4th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Battlefield 3 recently received a premium subscription option similar to that of Activision’s Elite service but EA claim that Premium was something that studio had always considered. Copy cat is one of the terms that would have popped into one’s head when they heard of the news that EA was planning on releasing a premium subscription service for Battlefield 3, seeing how Ac...
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