According to VGChartz [via Kotaku], Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness earned a stunning $330,000 during its opening three days on XBLA. This result is noteworthy given that the game debuted at a price point of $20, well above the $5 and $10 price points most XBLA players are accustomed to, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Only a month after announcing its existence, the casual games publisher GreenScreen Interactive Software has been acquired by Mandalay Media. No details about the terms of the acquisition are available at this time, but it appears as though Mandalay Media has been expanding the company's interests in interactive entertainment recently. Mandalay purchased a mobile games [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Over the weekend, Square Enix released the company's financial results from fiscal year 2007, and the results aren't good. The company sold a little over 2 million fewer units in 2007 than it did during 2006. That does not bode well for the company, and it helps explain the focus on alternate business models. According [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
Destructoid has pointed out that there's a Guardian article about the works of Philip K. Dick being optioned, and one planned use of said rights will be the creation of video games based on some of the books. The Halcyon Company is a new production group that scored a coup in securing a wide range [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
This week on GameSpyte, Jesse explores Bill Gate's philanthropic side, harmful chemicals in game consoles, Microsoft's attentive customer service and Uwe Boll's latest theatrical disaster, Postal.
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
According to GamePolitics, there is another notable departure from the ESA: id Software. Given that id Software was already planning not to attend E3, this development seemed inevitable. That brings the number the number of members in the ESA to 24 from a pre-exodus number of 28. GamePolitics tried to solicit comment from the ESA, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
Who loves Pictionary? I know I do. Well, Sega has decided to appeal to that demographic with PictoImage, a new game on the DS that expands upon the built-in drawing functionality that's available in Pictochat. At least, I hope they're expanding on the functionality. It's hard to tell, actually. I'm all for video games. I [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
UPDATE: Turns out maybe these specs aren't real. According to a report at CVG, the Starcraft 2 system requirements have leaked out of Blizzard proper. It is striking that the requirements are so (comparatively) daunting: Minimum Requirements:GFX: GeForce 7/8 Series or Radeon 1000/2000 with 256Mb RAM CPU: Pentium 4 RAM: 1Gb Internet: ADSL 1 MBitRecommend Requirements: GFX: GeForce 8000 or Radeon [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
GameStop announced the quarterly results for the company today. In a shocking turn of events, the company destroyed its previous quarterly record with massive sales of AAA titles like GTA IV, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. Brawl. Sales rose 42% over the previous quarter to a stunning $1.8 billion while profits rose 151% to $62.1 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
In an effort to strengthen its choke hold on smaller developer, EA announced today that it is purchasing Hands-On Mobile Korea. The company is a developer and publisher of mobile games, most notably the RPG Heroes Lore. Given that mobile games haven't exactly had a lot of success in the U.S. so far, it makes [...]
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