Game publisher THQ recently announced their partnership with Science-Fiction television brand SyFy, the partnership manifesting as possible TV-license video game releases and with THQ’s own titles making their way onto the network. The first IP to benefit from this is Wii-exclusive paint-splatter platformer de Blob, whose gelatinous mascot will be featured in the new SyFy […]
During a recent conference call with investors, EA indicated that it is planning on shifting attention away from partner-driven development and distribution and focus more on internal development of games. It was also stated that profit margins for internally developed PC-games can be as high as 90%, with console-based games generally producing a profit margin […]
Level 5, known for games like Dark Cloud, Dragon Quest VIII , Professor Layton, Rogue Galaxy and White Knight Chronicles, plans to open a new office in North America. Akihiro Hino, president of the company states the North American office is going to focus on publishing. Hino has also mentioned unannounced PS3 and Wii titles […]
The Art History of Games is a three-day public symposium in which members of the fields of game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies gather to investigate games as an art form held at SCAD in Savannah.