As PSP2 (or PSP-4000) rumors pick up steam, Sony is on the fence, doing all it can to keep hardware enthusiasts guessing. Last week, Sony's John Koller told MTV Multiplayer that he could not confirm or deny whether a new PSP, sans power-hogging UMD drive, would arrive by the end of the year. But in that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
The above CG mockup isn't exactly what the Sony PSP-4000 (or PSP2) will look like, but it may not be too far off, either. According to anonymous development sources contacted by Eurogamer and VG247, the next iteration of Sony's handheld gaming system will include a sliding screen that covers the controls, shed its power-hungry UMD [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Joystiq is reporting that EA's continued "restructuring" has resulted in the laying off of "21 customer service employees, half of QA and all of the playtest group" at EA subsidiary Mythic Entertainment, developer of the popular MMO Warhammer Online. However, according to Videogamer.com, Joystiq's report flies in the face of statements made by Mythic Entertainment co-founder [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
It's no secret that EA has been upset with the number of people who illegally downloaded Spore. Still, they're determined to make the game into Will Wright's next Mega Franchise, and they're so set on doing so that they may release Spore on Valve's Steam. While there's been no official announcement (or response to emails) [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
Last week, the Internet was abuzz with news about Factor 5’s possible serious financial issues, sparked when animator Sam Baker posted a blog entry lamenting the cancelation of some projects, and the lack of staff pay. He was quick to issue a new posting claiming that the original had been a misunderstanding, but was it? If [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 27, 2008
Giant Bomb is reporting that, during a recent taping of Bonus Round, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter released the information that Assassin's Creed 2 will take place “several hundred years in the future" -- relative to the setting of the original game -- "sometime in the 1700s.” Pachter went on to suggest The French Revolution [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 24, 2008
It's the kind of story that has us all consulting our thesauri for appropriate superlative terms. According to a story in Variety, Legendary Pictures is in talks with Epic Games, which may lead to the movie production company acquiring the game developer. As Variety points out, the two companies are already collaborating on the Gears [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
With a rumor swirling around our fair internet this morning that Google was preparing to buy Valve "any second now," the speculators at The Inquirer certainly had the games industry in a tizzy. The games media, in turn, did their homework, and Valve's Doug Lombardi denied such rumors to several sources in no uncertain terms. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 28, 2008
We already knew this was happening, honestly, but today, the countdown timer has ended, and the announcement has been made official: Cryptic Studios, the MMO developer behind City of Heroes and the upcoming Champions Online, has taken the development reins for Star Trek Online. Enterprising gamers had identified this with 99% certainty some 45 days [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Intellisponse, you're doin' a heck of a job. The rumors swirling about the gaming community are too many to count today, after an intrepid NeoGAF member found a gaping security hole at market research firm Intellisponse. The firm's clients seem to have included Microsoft, Activision, and Disney, and now a feast of unconfirmed information has [...]
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