The four game partnership between developer Platinum Games and publisher Sega ended with this month’s release of Vanquish. The collaboration has carried both companies across some strong sales (MadWorld, Bayonetta, and Infinite Space being the other titles in the partnership), and Platinum Games has made it clear that they are very open to furthering the […]
A crossover is oftentimes a cure for one or two ailing franchises. In the case of Capcom and Level-5’s recently revealed Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, however, the opposite is true. Capcom’s Ace Attorney franchise has sold 3.5 million units across all entries, with Professor Layton selling 9.5 million in total.
Nancy Graf, of St. Paul, Minnesota filed a class-action lawsuit against social games maker Zynga for allegedly sharing private data with advertisers. The litigation has been submitted on behalf of the 218 million users of Zynga products, and cites the company’s own deal with Facebook as the chief legal disruption. This is the second lawsuit […]
93 tracks and a Gene Simmons narration didn’t do much for Activision’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock launch. The latest music-rhythm game to fizzle since the sharp decline of sales last year, financial analyst Cowen and Company software figures report the game having sold a paltry 86,000 units in its first five days on shelves. […]