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NPD Software: Splinter Cell Takes a Stealth Approach to the Top

It's a bad April for the videogame industry, the NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales for both hardware and software on the North American market, saying the month saw a drop of 26% over the same period in 2009, which is the fourth biggest ever drop in one year. The overall value of sales has plummeted ...

14 May 2010
19:01 GMT

Sony Says Gaming Division Is Leading the Way to Profit

Sony has issued a very positive statement, saying that it will report smaller losses than it previously announced, its gaming business being one portion of the company performing better than expected and is setting the pace for the future. Sony expects to lose about 440 million dollars, which is significantly lower t...

12 May 2010
08:15 GMT

Halo: Reach Is the Most Expected Videogame Launch

The so-called Second Christmas sales period, which saw publishers launch all those titles that would have crowded the fall launch season of 2009, with hits like God of War 3 and Mass Effect 2, is all but over and people are looking forward beyond the summer to the big releases of this year. And it seems that Halo: Re...

4 May 2010
18:31 GMT

NPD Software: Kratos Is Making a Killing

March has been an interesting month for videogames, with quite a few high profile launches happening, and the NPD Group figures which came out show that God of War 3, the ending of the revenge saga featuring Spartan Kratos, managed to be the best sold game of the month in the United States, selling about 1.10 million...

16 April 2010
05:21 GMT

A Gamer's Week: April 11

These days, my gaming time has been all about God of War 3 and about the journey Kratos made to Zeus and the conclusion of the series. We have a review for God of War 3 up and there is also a series of diaries addressing more particular elements of the game that are available. We also have a Weekend Reading feat...

11 April 2010
06:01 GMT

Weekend Reading: God of War 3 Does QTEs Right

I generally dislike Quick Time Events. They tend to disrupt the flow of gameplay and they usually involve repeating some sequences time and time again pressing the same buttons to see the character perform moves that are otherwise inaccessible to the player.Concentrating on doing the button press sequence right also ...

10 April 2010
08:01 GMT

God of War 3

Killing Hades seems like it happened eons ago although only four days passed in real life. Maybe it’s the weight of the killing I've done or maybe it's all the influence of the combined powers of the Greek Pantheon but to me, the gamer as Kratos, the slog up Mount Olympus towards the final destiny of ...

9 April 2010
05:53 GMT

At 1 Million, Kratos Sells as Much as He Kills

Can the sales performance of a videogame where most of the Gods of the Greek Pantheon get destroyed by the Ghost of Sparta by called “godly?” It seems so, as news has popped up saying that God of War 3 is beating the expectations Sony had for it.Peter Dille, who is the senior vice president in charge of m...

6 April 2010
17:31 GMT

God of War 3: Overture to the God Slaughter by Kratos the Spartan

If the creators of God of War 3 have managed to do anything great, that is to have developed one of the most attractive and compelling opening sequences in the history of videogaming. When the new PlayStation 3 exclusive opens up starring Kratos, you are treated to a smooth and stylized sequence that offers the signi...

2 April 2010
20:01 GMT

Uncharted 2 Gets Game of the Year Award

The Video Game Awards managed to give off a few awards between playing trailers for pretty much all the major releases coming in 2010 and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony exclusively for the PlayStation 3, has been named as Game of the Year, in a move that snubbed pre-show fa...

14 December 2009
17:51 GMT

Sony Not Talking About Price Cuts for the PlayStation 3

2008 was supposed to be the year of the PlayStation 3, yet the Sony console did not manage to perform particularly well. Now, Sony is again talking about how its flagship console will be revitalized this year, with new and exciting titles coming to it and with more features added to attract potential customers. Still...

22 April 2009
14:21 GMT

The Complexity of the PlayStation 3 Forced Changes in God of War 3

Sony has always maintained that the PlayStation 3 is a more powerful gaming console than the Microsoft manufactured Xbox 360. But until now, no game has been able to translate that copious amount of power into much improved graphics or into massively changed gameplay.Still, Sony has great hopes that the PlayStation 3...

17 April 2009
04:44 GMT

Sony Says the PlayStation 3 Lineup Is an 'Embarrassment of Riches'

The PlayStation 3 didn't get to the best of starts when it was first launched by Sony, as it was gravely unsupported by quite a lot of developers and publishers, thus people who bought it found that they had only a few games that could be played by the big, black Japanese console. But after over 2 years, things...

31 March 2009
02:47 GMT

God of War Creator Builds Up Hype for Next Title

God of War is probably one of the best series of games designed for Sony's PlayStation 2 console. It follows the adventures of Kratos, a former Spartan soldier who goes out and takes up different types of missions for the Greek gods Ares and Athena, who promise him the revival of his family.The first title intro...

25 November 2008
03:33 GMT

Cory Barlog on God of War III

Fans of the God of War series have always had reasons for tension. Doubts about whether the game was getting a sequel or not first emerged when David Jaffe, the Lead Designer for God of War (one) moved onto other projects and eventually his own studio. Cory Barlog then grabbed the helm (God of War 2) but he too has n...

4 January 2008
05:46 GMT

1080p and Rumble for God of War 3

What, you think that's a typo? Well, it's not, the title really says God of War 3, although it was announced rather indirectly. During the launch party of God of War 2, game director Cory Barlog mentioned that the next GoW in the series will run at 1080p and have the SIXAXIS rumbling in your hands. As many ...

14 March 2007
05:45 GMT


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