CD Projekt: At Least 4 or 5 Pirates for Every ‘Witcher 2′ Customer
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011In an interview with PC Gamer, CD Projekt CEO and co-founder Marcin Iwinski stated he expects that for every copy of The Witcher 2, the game was pirated around 4.5 times. CD Projekt has been one of the most outspoken opponents of DRM, and the studio releases all its titles without any form of copy protection. [...]
1 CommentReport: Team Ico Lead Leaves Sony
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Eurogamer reports that Fumito Ueda, the director and lead designer behind Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and the highly anticipated The Last Guardian, has left the Sony-owned Team Ico studio. According to the report, Ueda continues to be involved in The Last Guardian, but only in a freelance role. Supposedly, Ueda’s departure is one of the [...]
2 CommentsSaints Row: The Third Video Review
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011The Third Street Saints are back, and more ridicules than ever!
2 CommentsRumor: ‘Super Smash Bros.’ Style Fighter Coming from Sony?
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011With the success of Nintendo’s crossover Super Smash Bros series, we’re surprised it took this long for another first-party publisher to try their hand at the concept. It is rumored that Super Bot Entertainment is hard at work on such a project for Sony, currently code-named “Title Fight”, after an alleged in-game screenshot of a [...]
Comments OffUPDATE: ‘L.A. Noire’ Lead’s Next Game: The ‘Whore of the Orient’
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011UPDATE: In an interview with Australia’s Financial Review, filmmaker and studio owner George Miller revealed both that his company – KMM Studios – had purchased the game rights to Brendan McNamara’s next project, and its tentative title: “Whore of the Orient”. (via GamePro) Brendan McNamara isn’t letting a complete lack of popularity stop him from [...]
1 CommentDizzy’s Coming Back
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGW53914gDk[/youtube] Back in the 1980s, a sentient egg named Dizzy had some pretty grand adventures on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, becoming something of a cult icon on the systems. What began as some rumors stoked by Twitter messages from Codemasters’ Communications Manager Rich Eddy and a teaser trailer was recently revealed to be [...]
Comments OffNew ‘Beyond Good and Evil 2′ Details
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011At the recently held Montpellier in Game 2011 summit, both Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and Michel Ancel (Rayman) briefly discussed some of the first concrete details on Beyond Good and Evil 2. All of our specifics are coming from the French website Beyond Good and Evil Myth.
Comments OffHUD: Bully 2, Twitter Game Tweet Land, Mass Effect 3 Beta Leak and Will Wright’s Hivemind!
Monday, November 28th, 2011Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
Comments OffRevenues Increase by 700% After DC Universe Online Goes F2P
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011John Smedley, the President of Sony Online Entertainment, has confirmed on his personal Twitter account that since DC Universe Online has gone free-to-play on November 1st, the daily revenue has gone up by over 700%. He also added that the user base has been steadily growing at around 6% a day, with approximately 85% of [...]
Comments OffSquare Opens 2nd Montreal Studio for New ‘Hitman’
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011Square Enix recently revealed their plans to expand their studio presence in Montreal. That mainly includes the opening of a second studio, Square Enix Montreal, and some 150 new staff positions. Reportedly, the studio will focus on a new game in the Hitman franchise, not associated with IO Interactive’s Hitman Absolution. Square Enix London’s General [...]
1 CommentMajor ‘Pokemon’ Announcement Hinted for Jump Festa
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011The latest issue of the Japanese weekly anime/manga magazine Jump has revealed that the Pokemon franchise will be making its first appearance at Jump Festa this year, and packing a big announcement for the show. A “big surprise” also awaits attendees at the franchise’s booth on the show floor. Jump Festa 2011 is hosted at [...]
Comments OffThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Video Review
Saturday, November 19th, 2011I tell you, I tell you, the Dragonborn comes.
11 Comments‘Metal Gear Solid: Rising’ Producer Replaced
Saturday, November 19th, 2011The recent Twitter announcement – made by Hideo Kojima – of Metal Gear Solid: Rising Producer Yuji Korekado’s first account on the social platform caused quite a stir. Mostly because, up until this point, Shigenobu Matsuyama was credited as the project’s Producer. The replacement of Matsuyama with Korekado was later confirmed by Konami Productions’ Kenichiro [...]
2 CommentsRockstar: ‘Bully 2′ Might Follow ‘Max Payne 3′
Saturday, November 19th, 2011A sequel to 2006′s Bully may be riding on the coattails of Max Payne 3‘s release, Rockstar’s Vice President Dan Houser told Gamasutra earlier today. While the Vancouver branch of the studio still “adores” the prep-school set adventure, scheduling concerns have kept a sequel from the development table. The completion of the latest installment in [...]
3 CommentsWill Wright Reveals His Hivemind
Saturday, November 19th, 2011Leave it to Will Wright to make a video game out of real life. The father of everything Sim debuted his new vision to Venture Beat recently, one that takes customization beyond anything seen before. Hivemind is the first step in “personal gaming”, as Wright describes it, and incorporates elements of the player’s actual life [...]
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