03 Aug

Square Enix seems to be shifting the corporate gears a bit. Once a titan of unique IP, these days, the publisher seems eager to acquire and distribute some pretty deftly chosen outside titles. First there was Batman: Arkham Asylum (in Japan), and now Square is picking up one of Activision’s recently discarded games. True Crime: […]

01 Jul

Level-5, of Professor Layton franchise fame, has hired Yasumi Matsuno (Tactics Ogre, Vagrant Story) in an unknown role. Speaking with Famitsu (translated by Andriasang) Matsuno stated that he wished to work on more “compact games” with shorter development cycles, something geared more towards children. Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino told the magazine that he and the […]

27 Jun

The newest Playstation Network breach-spawned lawsuit alleges that Sony fired a significant portion of network security employees prior to the hacking of 100 million+ accounts across PSN and SOE. According to the court document, Sony “laid off a substantial percentage of its Sony Online Entertainment workforce, including a number of employees in the Network Operations […]