Saturday, July 31st, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

As has been the case for a while now, a job posting can speak a thousand words on where a company’s headed. The latest resume-requesting reveal comes in relation to WipEout HD developer Sony Liverpool, who posted an opening for a person to help deliver “the most realistic, intense, action-packed game experience available.”

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Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments

With Officially Licensed merchandise has always included hats and t-shirts, Sony has taken the game a step further and announced a new line of everything from clothing to appliances boasting the “iconic” Playstation logo. Sony Computer Entertainment will put out guidelines to designers on how best to incorporate the design, and will have final approval before a product goes to market. The line of products intends to “deliver various quality lifestyle products that will make the PlayStation brand more accessible than ever.”

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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

With the God of War Collection successfully competing financially with the new releases of its launch window, a rumored Team ICO Collection getting fans across the board in a tizzy, and The Sly Collection on the way, the Playstation 3 has come to be a happy home for HD special collections. Sony has taken notice, SCE Worldwide President Shuhei Yoshida confirming the company’s intent to continue with the business model in an interview with IGN.

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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

Tetris is one of the most recognizable pieces of pop culture in history, so its no surprise how frustrating the inability to get good multiplayer out of the brand could be. For the past 10 years, original creator Alexey Pajitnov has been attempting to integrate the functionality, but to little avail. Sitting down with Gamasutra, Pajitnov expressed his irritations and the Tetris brand itself.

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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | 4 Comments

Amidst the flood of new game announcements and breaking news at E3 today, fans of the Sony-exclusive franchise, Sly Cooper, will be overjoyed to hear that the original trilogy, originally released on the PlayStation 2 between 2002 and 2005, will receive an HD makeover in the Fall of 2010.

In addition to all three games being on one Blu-Ray, each title has been optimized for high definition widescreen displays, and Trophy support has been integrated.  As a final bonus, The Sly Collection will include PlayStation Move-based mini-games as well.  No pricing or release date information was released.

Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Posted by Randy Yasenchak | No Comments

According to Gameinformer, director of the acclaimed series Assassin’s Creed Patrice Désilets has left Ubisoft and the video games industry on June 11 to take a “creative break.”

Désilets played a pivotal role Ubisoft Montreal’s existence since the studio’s inception. He also played an instrumental role in the Prince of Persia series across multiple platforms.

His departure comes as a staggering loss after Clint Hocking of Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2 left the studio earlier this year. Jade Raymond, who worked heavily with the original Assassin’s Creed, has also left the studio to control the Ubisoft Toronto studio.

Ubisoft officially stated: “With his role on project essentially done, Patrice Désilets has decided to take a creative break from the industry and is no longer working on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood.”

Friday, February 19th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 4 Comments

Winners for the 2010 Annual Interactive Achievement Award (DICE awards) voted by the entire video game development community has been announced. Along with announcing top games of 2009, the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards has honored successful game designer and Activision co-founder, David Crane with the AIAS’ first Pioneer Award. Entertainment Software Association (ESA) founder, Douglas Lowenstein (Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon) was inducted into the Hall of Fame honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Find the list after the break.

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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton recently released some non-specific stats on a couple high-profile releases on the Playstation Blog, in between thanking consumers for “a Great 2009.”

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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 8 Comments

Nintendo takes the lead in both hardware and software sales as the Nintendo Wii and New Super Mario Bros Wii takes the number one spot in the charts 3 and 2 months in a row respectively. Mass Effect 2 had a great 6 day run in January selling around 570,000 units (2 million internationally according to EA). On the flip side Bayonetta, although with it’s high praises didn’t make the top 10 list having been released the first week of January.

Hardware Sales
• Wii — 465,800
• Nintendo DS — 422,200
• Xbox 360 — 332,800
• PlayStation 3 — 276,900
• PlayStation Portable — 100,100
• PlayStation 2 — 41,600

**Numbers based on units sold

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 3 Comments

Although Playstation 3 owners are still hoping for a 2010 Gran Turismo 5 release, last year’s portable installment in the driving simulator franchise has boosted the overall sales of the IP past 55 million units. Series-developer Polyphony Digital announced the benchmark online, along with the reveal that Gran Turismo PSP nearly passing 2 million units on its own. Find the charted figures for each individual title in the franchise, broken down by region as well as worldwide, after the jump.

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 3 Comments

The NPD has updated the best selling games of all time list as of December 2009 (US sales numbers) and has added Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to the list coming in fourth place. The NPD has not yet release full sales data for all games, but have declared Wii Play the top selling game selling 11.1 million followed by Guitar Hero III at 10.2 million (all platforms), GTA: San Andreas at 9.8 million on (Xbox and Playstation 2) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at 8.82 million. The top 10* best selling games are as follows:

1. Wii Play (Wii)
2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)
3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2, Xbox)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, Xbox 360)
5. Wii Fit (Wii)
6. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, Xbox 360, DS)
8. Madden NFL 07 (PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PSP, DS, GC, GBA, Wii)
9. Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, DS, Wii)
10. Namco Museum (DC, GBA, PS2, GC, Xbox, PSP, N64, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, PS, Xbox 360)

*US only. Does not include PC sales figures.

Monday, January 4th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 1 Comment

EA has made a public announcement that they are shutting down a host of online servers to make way for new ones in the future, “All of us at EA would like to thank you for your valued participation in our online gaming community. We hope that your enthusiasm for these games extends to our current lineup and beyond”. Some servers that are cut include titles such as Burnout Revenge, Facebreaker, FIFA 07, Fight Night Round 3, NASCAR 09, Marvel Nemesis, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Tiger Woods 07. EA has also listed online servers to be shutdown on February 2nd:

February 2, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
UEFA Champions League 07 PC and x360
Facebreaker x360 and PS3
Fantasy Football 09 x360 and PS3
FIFA 07 PSP, PS2, PC
Fight Night Round 3 PS2
Madden 08 Wii
Madden 08 PC
Madden 09 Xbox1
Madden 09 Wii and PSP
March Madness 07 x360
NBA 07 PSP, x360
NBA 08 PS2, PSP, Wii
NBA 09 Wii – Europe only
NBA Street (2007) PS3 and x360
NCAA Football 08 PS2
NCAA Football 09 PS2
NASCAR 08 PS2
NASCAR 09 PS2
NASCAR 09 PS3 and x360 – Europe Only
NFL Tour PS3 and x360
NHL 07 PSP and x360
NHL 08 PC
Tiger Woods 07 PC
Madden 09 x360 and PS3
Madden 07 Xbox 360

Friday, December 25th, 2009 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 2 Comments

EEDAR, the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has release sales figures for 2009.  As a whole, 1,099 games were released this year as opposed to 1,092 the year previous. Jesse Divinich, spokesperson of EEDAR states that, “”For just the current generation home consoles (PS3/360/Wii), 2009′s release quantities increase the total availability of games to consumers by 55 percent. Unless retail shelf space grows by the same amount–and it isn’t–than the retail shelf life for an average game decreases dramatically. “  In terms of video game released in relation to gaming platforms, Divnich noted that  DS and Wii has significant bumps in their release numbers despite drops in console sales early on in the year, while Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 were slightly down and would be lower if not for digital distribution. Divnich predicts that there will be a 5-8% drop this coming year due to industry and marketing trends seen from the previous console generations.

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 5 Comments

The editorial writers at Adweek Media have compiled their list of the best advertisements of the decade as part of their “Best in 2000s” countdowns. The only two game-related pieces to make the extensive list were Halo 3′s “Diorama” trailer, which featured a scrawling shot of an epic diorama-esque art piece depicting a battle between the UNSC and the Convenant, and the Playstation 2′s “Mountain” trailer, which literally asked consumers to become “king of the mountain” with the system’s online services. While neither of the trailers made it past the finalist stage, the prize went to automaker Honda for their “Grr” commercial. Both of the trailers can be viewed in their entirety after the jump.  Make sure to give us some of your favorite trailers that AdWeek might have missed in the comments section below!

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | Posted by Mats Paasche | No Comments

A piece of news that is sure to shock and sadden Silent Hill fans everywhere, Akira Yamaoka (the series composer) is leaving Konami. The news was leaked by Helldecent.com (a Silent Hill fan site) yesterday. Akira is moving on to pursue “possible solo projects”, exactly what he’ll be working on isn’t known.

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