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 Microsoft will cut loose as many as 15K employees from its global workforce on January 15, according to unconfirmed reports that permeated the Web over the holiday break. Bloggers at Fudzilla said in late December that mass layoffs were imminent, although a more recent post said said much of the cuts would be made to agency staff, or contractors. read more 05-January-2009 19:01 PM
 Microsoft's European gaming arm announced on Monday that Xbox 360 has sold 8 million consoles to date in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) territories, citing sales estimates based on GfK-ChartTrack. A statement from the firm said the Xbox 360 has a lead of more than 1 million units over rival PlayStation 3 in the region. read more 05-January-2009 16:01 PM
 U.S. life-to-date sales of the Nintendo Wii surpassed the initial two-year sales of Sony's mega-successful PS2, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter projected on Monday ahead of December sales data from NPD Group. "...Nintendo’s life-to-date sell-through of the Wii is very close to life-to-date sell-through of the PS2 through year-end 2002, and we expect Wii sales to surpass PS2 sales in December," he wrote in a research note. read more 05-January-2009 15:01 PM
 Following Sony's December announcement that it will cut 16,000 permanent and temporary staff, a new report says the CEO of the Japanese-based PlayStation house will make even wider-reaching changes to the company to avoid multibillion dollar losses. read more 05-January-2009 13:01 PM
 AQ Interactive has confirmed that its upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Cry On has been cancelled. Details on the game had remained thin ever since t was announced back in 2005. AQ Interactive says it closed the project “after analyzing the current market environment and forecasts for the future.” Cry On was in development at Mistwalker, an outfit perhaps better known for their 360 exclusives Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was said to have a role in the game’s production. read more 05-January-2009 12:01 PM
 Zavvi’s administrators claim that there are still a number of interested parties looking to buy the business. Zavvi – the UK's largest independent retailer of games, music and film goods – fell into administration on Christmas Eve. The retailer’s demise was largely a knock-on effect from the fall of Woolworths and its wholesale distributor EUK. read more 05-January-2009 11:01 AM
 Hideo Kojima has spoken of a thorough “structure, tools and staff” revamp taking place at Kojima Productions in order to realise the developer’s goal of penetrating the Western market. "We're currently reviewing everything,” he told Famitsu, “in order to make Kojima Productions a team that can challenge foreign creators and software houses. Because of that, 2009 is going to be a very important year for us.” read more 05-January-2009 10:01 AM
 Beautiful Game Studios general manager Roy Meredith claims that the Championship Manager series has been afflicted by a 90% piracy rate. Speaking to CVG, Meredith says that the figure is not just a number plucked from the air; “we can measure it and we know that there are a huge amount of pirated copies." read more 05-January-2009 09:01 AM
 Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has posted on his semi-official blog the twenty most-played Xbox 360 games in 2008, with Halo 3 topping the list ahead of Call of Duty 4 and GTA IV. After a few days of number crunching, says Hryb, Microsoft was able to determine through unique user data which games had been played online the most. “Last year was a great year to be an Xbox 360 gamer as is evident by the quality of titles that Xbox LIVE members were playing,” he adds. read more 05-January-2009 08:01 AM
 You’re not alone if you feel a touch spoilt by the sheer mass of compelling software that has been released over the past two years. Mario Galaxy, GTA IV, Call of Duty 4, Halo 3 and the Orange Box are but a handful of fantastic titles that peppered the 2007 and 2008 release lists. Can 2009 repeat the same feat? read more 04-January-2009 15:01 PM
 Our selection of the ten most significant PC-related news pieces of 2008 show that, despite the shortcomings of the format – from piracy to DRM to the format’s oft-perceived frailty – a number of publishers stood to make a lot of money from their PC game enterprises. Even though Carmack, Yerli and others are taking an astute multi-platform approach to their output, the four pillars of PC gaming – Games For Windows, online web casuals, subscription MMOs and, of course, Steam – continue to grow as each month goes by. read more 04-January-2009 15:01 PM
The best game I played this month had zero polygons and no particle effects; it was unscripted, cost nothing and didn’t even require plugging in to the power. read more 02-January-2009 16:01 PM
 It may come as a surprise that, as Nintendo continues to dominate the TV console market, Sony’s PS3 is more widely used for internet browsing. read more 02-January-2009 16:01 PM
 Though its tech is distinctly last-gen, and its software releases are drying up, the PS2’s colossal 140 million-plus userbase makes it one of the most-played consoles of last year. A study undertaken by market research group Nielsen measures the amount of ‘game-minutes’ used on each console. Its results show that in October the PS2 was responsible for over 30 percent of all console gameplay, with the Xbox 360 trailing in second with an 18.3 percent share. read more 02-January-2009 14:01 PM
 PlayStation Home, the much-anticipated hub of the PlayStation community, isn’t so much a new build as a renovation. It wasn’t just conceived at SCEE’s internal Team Soho (now simply London Studio), during production of mockney crime caper The Getaway – it was The Getaway. What if, it was asked, rather than shoot and smash your way out of this picture-perfect capital, you could move in? What if you could rent an apartment and find your own entertainment, not within the confines of script and console but online, together? read more 31-December-2008 11:12 AM
 Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War returns to the top of the UK all-format chart following its surprise slip to second during the Christmas week. Last week EA’s FIFA 09 jumped to first place in the charts following a sales promotion at the retailers, capping a flourishing sales record since its release in October. EA’s soccer rival Pro Evo 09 fell out of the charts within a few weeks after its release, while FIFA remained buoyant in the top five throughout November and December. Today it sits at second in the charts. read more 31-December-2008 09:12 AM
 Nintendo’s rise back to the top of the industry was this generation’s Cinderella story…in 2007. In 2008, that tale necessarily became a “now that I’m in charge, here’s what we’re going to do” story—not exactly the sort of thing that captivates the masses, but nevertheless a lucrative place to be. So, Nintendo’s 2008 was a year where a lot of money was made—and a few enemies too. .jpg) read more 31-December-2008 09:12 AM
 LIPS For those who assume that Lips is just Microsoft finally getting around to copying one of Sony’s greatest software successes, you’re only partly right. The basic game is indeed almost identical to SingStar, in that you score points for following the pitch and rhythm of songs, but Lips does enough new for the genre to make itself distinct. The main difference is Lips’ re-reading of karaoke itself. read more 31-December-2008 09:12 AM
 The entrenched mantra that tends to be rolled out from videogame industry commentators during times of economic turmoil is one of general positivity concerning the resilience of the games market to such conditions. And this viewpoint is held for some very good reasons. read more 30-December-2008 16:12 PM
 Mass.-based online company Worlds.com is suing NCsoft for infringing on a patent that seems to lay claim to fundamental aspects of MMO games. Worlds.com said in its December 24 court filing that South Korea's NCsoft has infringed on U.S. patent 7,181,690, a "System and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space." NCsoft also has locations in the U.S. read more 30-December-2008 15:12 PM
 In 2007, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada announced that Last Remnant would form the cornerstone title in the company’s efforts to build a new global audience. Designed to appeal to both eastern and western markets, the RPG has ambitions beyond the usual boundaries of its genre. We talk with Hiroshi Takai, the game’s director, and Yusuke Naora, its art director, to discover what Wada’s vision has meant for the development team on the ground. read more 30-December-2008 15:12 PM
 You could forgive The Creative Assembly for playing it relatively safe with Empire. The foundations of its strategy series are so solid that a shift in backdrops (particularly to one as promising as the age of reason) is enough to draw up the requisite bullet points for the back of the box. Empire has 12 playable factions, a new focus on ranged combat thanks to muskets, and beefed-up diplomacy options as Europe and the colonies nudge themselves ever closer to a recognisably modern world. read more 30-December-2008 02:12 AM
 2008, it was predicted, was to be the beginning of the end for Microsoft. It’s lead over Sony was born of an early launch and the competition fumbling its first year, some said. But with the forward-looking PS3 picking up steam, the 360 would slowly lose market share and eventually cede the year, sales-wise, to Sony. read more 29-December-2008 16:12 PM
 Kyoto-based Nintendo has partnered with top Japanese advertising company Dentsu to develop a streaming video service for the Nintendo Wii in 2009. According to an AFP report, Nintendo is developing original programming that would be accessible via the Wii's Internet connection for Japanese Wii owners. Nintendo is considering free and paid content for the new service. read more |
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