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Sony’s emphasis on free-to-play could give it the edge
0By: Moses Abaortae | November 6th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Dust 514 dev, CCP, and Crysis dev, CryTek both laud the publisher for pushing the new business model, which they believe to be the future of the gaming industry. The video game industry is at a number of important cross roads at the moment. It is set to see a number of changes on various fronts in what could defi...
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Can Spec Ops: The Line do what Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series did?
By: Moses Abaortae | November 6th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The Line may not have been a huge financial success, however, that does not mean that the game’s impact has not been felt as it raises important questions about the genre, similar to the Uncharted series. While Battlefield 3 and the Call of Duty series provide players a linear path where all of the player’s a...
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Former public face of GameStop pleads guilty to $2 million embezzlement charge
By: Jason McCarthy | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The former VP of corporate communications at GameStop Frank Christopher Olivera has pleaded guilty to using his position to embezzle nearly $2 million from the retailer. While serving as the spokesman and public face of the Grapevine-based video game retailer, Olivera was doing a pretty good job. Much to GameStop’s misfortune, that was not the only thing that he was doing ...
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD DLC gets delayed until December
By: Jason McCarthy | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The fans of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD will have to wait a while longer to get their hands on the game’s first downloadable content (DLC) as Activision revealed that it has been delayed to the first week of December, 2012. Released during Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion earlier this year, the game was originally going to be getting its first DLC shortly after. Th...
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Fuse was changed from stealth to action amid Leeroy Jenkins fears
By: Musa Afridi | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Brain Allgeier, the creative head on the upcoming Insomniac game, explains that the studio moved from a stealth premise to an action one as they were worried that there would always be that one person who would ruin the experience for the other players. Originally titled, ‘Overstrike’ the game is a four playe...
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Resistance devs discuss their upcoming game Fuse
By: Musa Afridi | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Originally titled, Overstrike, the renamed game is placing emphasis on cooperative gameplay with four players able to play at once, much like Ghost Recon: Future Soldier but with Insomniac’s staple of unique weapons. Insomniac was once a second-party Sony studio, developing games exclusively for the PlayStation...
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There’s nothing emo about the cutting in Metal Gear Rising
By: Musa Afridi | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Yuji Korekado, the producer of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, explains that the sword play in the game is the foundation of the game and can be played using stealth or players can choose to adopt an all-action approach if they please. Originally intended to be the first game to be developed on Kojima Productions ...
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Singer’s $250 lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas maker fails
By: Jason McCarthy | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
A Californian appeals court has denied Michael “Shagg” Washington’s claims regarding the unlawful use of his likeness in the popular Rockstar game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The supposed back-up singer for Cyprus Hill was unable to provide enough concrete evidence to the court that the main protagonist in the game Carl “CJ” Johnson was based on his looks and his l...
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Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is “a real Metal Gear” – dev
By: Musa Afridi | November 5th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Yuji Korekado, the producer of the upcoming action title from both Platinum Games and Kojima Productions, hopes to allay any concerns fans may have concerning the authentic of Revengeance in the Metal Gear universe. For years now, the gaming world has been in awe of the Metal Gear Solid games. Its stealth, action...
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Kickstarter starts rendering its services to UK developers
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
After meeting a lot of success in America, Kickstarter has already begun to show-off very positive signs in United Kingdom. The popular crowd-funding website has already gone live in Europe, offering a much-needed solution to a very taxing problem that stands in the way of creative minds from unleashing themselves and reaching their true potential. While the gaming industry ...
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Countdown begins as Nintendo releases new Wii U commercial on YouTube
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The advertising campaign for Nintendo’s next-generation console Wii U is underway, with a brand new trailer hitting the company’s YouTube channel recently. Nintendo of America is less than two weeks away from releasing its high-end console in North America, with November 18 set as the date for the console to hit the shelves in the region. Even though the internet has bee...
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Mass Effect Trilogy hits PlayStation 3 on December 4
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The PlayStation 3 loyalists can finally sit down and relax as the promised Mass Effect Trilogy announced a couple of months backs finally has a release date for the Sony console. According to reports, the three-in-one Mass Effect pack will be making its way to PlayStation 3 on December 4, 2012, making the holiday season even more special for the gamers. Developer BioWare had...
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Uncharted 3 celebrates birthday with a Nathan Drake figure
By: Musa Afridi | November 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Naughty Dog team up with Sideshow Collectibles to bring the Premium Format Figure to the gaming world and is sure to have fans of the series collecting their jaws up from off the floor. When it comes to exclusives, Sony leads the pack with the likes of Killzone, Resistance and Gran Turismo, as well as Heavy Rain...
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Job listings at 2K Czech website suggest new project for next-generation consoles
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
A visit to the jobs sections on 2K Czech reveals that the Mafia studio has plenty of job openings, seeking out new and bold talent for its office its Prague and Brno offices in Czech Republic. There has not been any announcement regarding the studio working on a new game in recent past, which has triggered rumours of the developer working on a new top-secret AAA game. The ...
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The best-selling game in Europe for 2012 is…
By: Moses Abaortae | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
FIFA reigns supreme in Europe as no less than nine PlayStation 3 titles make it into the top 20 best-selling games for the period January to September 2012. Europe is known as being more of a balanced region in terms of the type of games that are played and usually has a tendency to adopt PlayStation consoles as their primary means of gaming. That trend may be changing slowly t...
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Pokemon battles are still big in Japan as the annual sales chart show
By: Moses Abaortae | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Japan: the software sales chart for the period January to October 2012 are in and be it Black or White, Pokemon still rules for many. Japan is its own world when it comes to video game trends, tastes and preferences. There is no guarantee for successful video games from the west to see similar success in Japan as a number of titles have demonstrated. Living up to one of lege...
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Take-Two claims to be doing well despite the challenge presented by aging consoles
By: Jason McCarthy | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
The demand for the next-generation consoles may be growing in the market, consequently having a negative impact on the sales of both the sales of consoles as well as games. One company, however, claims to be holding its own despite the changing ecosystem and people growing wary of what they are beginning to refer to as old technology. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick conceded du...
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Take-Two expects development costs of games to fall with arrival of next-generation technology
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
A number of video games industry analysts are of the opinion that developing intellectual properties (IPs) would prove to be both costly and complicated. Take-Two, however, does not agree with this notion and instead believes the cost of development will fall with the arrival of next-generation hardware. According to the CEO of the American publisher Strauss Zelnick, the Gra...
