Earlier this week, Ed Fries, a former Microsoft employee, discussed the acquisition of Rare by his ex-employers with Develop. What wasn’t known about the situation was how hard Microsoft had to fight to acquire it. A bidding war had reportedly been fought between Microsoft, Nintendo, and Activision, the latter remaining the strongest contender until internal […]
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 […]
Combined with his comments concerning Tim Schafer, Activision head Bobby Kotick appears to be cleaning house on all the former headlines his company has faced. Again speaking to Edge magazine [via Develop] (the front lines in his battle with both Schafer and Electronic Arts), Kotick spoke on former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince […]
The 99%-confirmed PSP2 has been in the news a lot since a NetherRealm employee divulged its existence. But it appears that the studio behind Mortal Kombat isn’t the only one to have had a look at the upcoming handheld. According to multiple sources within many different developers, the system has been making the studio rounds […]