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Video game developer Blizzard carefully tested the Inferno difficulty level for their upcoming hack and slash title Diablo III but then decided to base their decision on how hard the game will be on the player base expectations rather than on the information it had gathered.Jay Wilson, who is the lead designer workin... |
7 May 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Despite the meteoric rise of social gaming, the new genre is not a threat for the traditional gaming concepts on the PC and home consoles.
Mark Pincus, who is the chief executive officer at Zynga, stated, “Our research shows that nearly 70% of people who are playing social games are also watching television. O... |
26 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The development team at Blizzard working on the Mists of Pandaria expansion is worried that long-term fans of the series might be disappointed by the content that they are working on and by the tone of the new class and race.
Greg Street, the lead systems designer working on World of Warcraft, told GameSpy that, &ld... |
26 March 2012
03:03 GMT |
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From Software, the company best known for creating the hardcore role playing and action mixes of Dark Souls and Demon’s Souls, is now working on Armored Core V and the mech combat titles is set to benefit from the developer’s newfound fame.
Peter Oliver, who is the United Kingdom public relations represe... |
19 March 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Dark Souls is not actually a sequel to Demon’s Souls the development team at From Software is keen on creating more video games that tap the same rich vein of dark fantasy and rely on difficult but satisfying mechanics.Masanori Takeuchi, who is the research and development leader at From S... |
10 March 2012
02:37 GMT |
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From Software has finally acknowledged that the fan base has been actively requesting a PC version of their recent hit Dark Souls but says that all the decisions about platforms are linked to the publisher Namco Bandai and that the company has not made a ruling on the PC port yet.
Speaking to GameTrailer Masanori Ta... |
9 March 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Alex Seropian, who is one of the co-founders of well-known Halo developer Bungie, has announced that he has set up a new video game development studio, called Industrial Toys.
It which will apparently be focused on the development of mobile games that cater to the needs of the hardcore crowd.
The stated aims of t... |
24 February 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Social game developer Zynga has announced better than expected financial reports for its first quarter as a publicly traded company, saying that for the three months that ended on December 31 of last year it has managed to get a revenue of 311 million dollars (236.12 million Euro), slightly above the expectations of ... |
15 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is set to be the conclusion of one of BioWare’s biggest franchises and the developers are eager to make sure that the action side of the game matches up the ambition of the storytelling.
Speaking to the Official Xbox Magazine, Preston Watamaniuk, the lead designer working on Mass Effect 3, stated... |
31 January 2012
19:51 GMT |
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The new Elite subscription service for the Call of Duty series is, according to the developers working on the first-person shooter franchise, a way of offering the player base options and differentiating between the hardcore crowd and the casual players.
Speaking to Kotaku, Robert Bowling, the main creative director... |
25 January 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that it’s planning to target with the upcoming release of the PlayStation Vita lots of audiences, from the regular core gamers, to even the female demographic which, in the mind of the PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan, is the “untapped holy grail” of gaming.The PlayStation Vita is... |
20 December 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed what’s next for the marketing efforts of its PlayStation 3, as the company now wants to promote the device as a family-friendly console, which can appeal to younger audiences.The PlayStation 3 was thought, for long, as a hardcore only device, largely because the Wii managed to take over casua... |
7 December 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Video game developer From Software and publisher Namco Bandai have announced that their Dark Souls title has managed to ship 1.5 million units all over the world since launch.The game appeared first in Japan, exclusively on the PlayStation 3, with more than 370,000 copies sold since September 22, while in North Ameri... |
3 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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The iPad and its successor are dominating the tablet market at the moment and many other developers, including the mighty HP, seem to have given up on assaulting that entrenched position but with the announcement of the Kindle Fire, which took place a few weeks ago, Amazon seems to be ready to take up this challenge ... |
22 October 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Team Ninja has revealed that it now has an early version of Ninja Gaiden 3 up and running on the new Wii U home console from Nintendo and that it's looking to get as much performance out of the new hardware as possible.Speaking to VG247 at the Eurogamer Expo event Peter Garza, who is the localization leader for ... |
11 October 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Demon's Souls was one of the surprise critical hits of 2009 and now the developers who created it, From Software, are working on a new game called Dark Souls with Namco Bandai, with the publisher saying that the game is more organized take on the same concepts.Andrew Davis, who is an associate producer working a... |
30 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve is getting ready to unveil Defense of the Ancients 2 at the Gamescom event in Germany and a lot of the potential success for the arena battle game will be linked to how the tight knitted community that has formed around the game will reach to it.And Erik Johnson, the man who is leading the ... |
12 August 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has revealed that the company isn't forcing game developers to implement support for the Kinect sensor in their titles and isn't just trying to push core gamers to buy the new peripheral if they don't want to.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 got a new lease on life last year when the company deplo... |
20 July 2011
04:55 GMT |
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PlayStation 3 owners that use the PlayStation Home online social network are among the most hardcore and dedicated gamers on that platform, at least according to Sony's director of the digital service.
PlayStation 3 owners have quite a lot of activities dedicated to them besides gaming, with Sony offering ple... |
5 July 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata is confident that the upcoming Wii U home console will be able to offer a single experience catered both to casual users as well as experienced gamers, thanks to its unique controller as well as through the capability of displaying HD graphics.Nintendo surprised quite a lot of people w... |
20 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Io Interactive, the developer, has announced that it will aim to make its recently announced Hitman: Absolution video game both accessible to a wider gaming audience and hardcore enough to satisfy the expectations of long-term fans of the franchise.
Tore Blystad, who is the game director working on Hitman: Absolut... |
30 May 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced that it has set up a new development studio in Vancouver, Canada, which is now working on getting a new hardcore AAA shooter for the Kinect motion detection peripheral on the Xbox 360.
Microsoft Games Studios has been expanding its studio count left and right these days, especially giv... |
4 May 2011
03:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has once more promised that hardcore games for its Kinect motion detection sensor are in development and that serious gamers will be amazed of the titles that will arrive for the device.
Microsoft's Kinect sensor has been a phenomenal success, selling millions of units since it was launched back in ... |
9 March 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the biggest video game launches coming this year and the developers working on the game at BioWare are offering more details on how their upcoming MMO offering will try to attract even middle of the road solo gamers to the more hardcore elements of the genre.
Speaking at the G... |
8 March 2011
16:31 GMT |
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2011 will delight hardcore Xbox 360 gamers, at least according to Microsoft, who revealed this right after one of its biggest exclusive franchises, Gears of War 3, received a concrete release date and details about its multiplayer beta stage.
Microsoft, with the runaway success of the Kinect motion sensor, had see... |
25 February 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The upcoming launch of the Nintendo 3DS handheld will be specifically targeted at hardcore fans of the Japanese company, as Nintendo is bringing in all of its big franchises in order to make the 3DS irresistible.
In recent years, following the success of the Wii and DS consoles, core Nintendo fans have been saying... |
26 January 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Microsoft, following some huge sales recorded by its new Kinect motion detection peripheral, has once again pledged its support for hardcore gamers who kept the Xbox 360 on top all these years.
Microsoft's Kinect is surpassing even the company's own sales expectations, managing to ship more than five mil... |
12 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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THQ's core games boss Danny Bilson revealed on his own Twitter account that announcements about hardcore games made for the Kinect and Move will be revealed soon, probably right around the beginning of the Spike TV Video Game Awards, which will start on December 11.When asked by one of his followers about the po... |
1 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Despite all the talk of the rise of free to play social titles and the development of gaming on Apple made devices like the iPhone and the iPad the best way for a traditional publisher to invest its money is to fund the development of high quality core video games for the traditional market.A report from Cowan & Comp... |
29 November 2010
04:45 GMT |
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More hardcore games for the Kinect will arrive in 2011, at least according to Microsoft's UK marketing boss, Stephen McGill, who revealed that dedicated Xbox 360 owners will have plenty of reasons to pick up a Kinect in the following months.Microsoft has just launched the Kinect motion sensitive peripheral for t... |
18 November 2010
02:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has just revealed that it plans on selling 5 million Kinect units this holiday season, as the new motion detection peripheral system will also please the Xbox 360's hardcore fan base, not just casual gamers.Microsoft is betting big on the new Kinect system, as the new motion detection peripheral will ... |
4 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: This weekend I am going to Vegas but instead of opting for a real life plane ride and the chance of losing a lot of money playing games of chance and skill I opted for just picking up Fallout: New Vegas, the role playing and action hybrid that Obsidian has created using the foundation that Bethesda... |
22 October 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Shadows of the Damned is set to span the divide across the hardcore and casual video game categories, has said one of the developers involved in the creation of the new title which will be developer by Grasshoper and published by Electronic Arts.Akira Yamaoka, who is best known for the work he has done on the Silent ... |
18 October 2010
04:38 GMT |
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A report from Lazard Capital Markets suggests that the number of hours that so called core gamers are spending on video games is bigger than ever but that less involved players tend to abandon the console eco system attracted by new gaming possibilities that are less expensive and have attractive business models.It s... |
13 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has stated that the Kinect motion tracking system, set to launch in November, will be attractive for hardcore players because it introduces a clear way for skill to be evaluated in video games, even though no launch titles are clearly aimed at an audience who enjoys experiences based around conf... |
6 September 2010
16:11 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, who is the president of Nintendo, told the Japanese news service that in order to “expand into elaborate games targeting serious gamers,” his company is working closely with developers to make sure that the Nintendo 3DS, the new handheld set to offer full three-dimensional gaming without the... |
6 July 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Most of the video games that Microsoft showed at the recent E3 event in order to convince the crowd about the capabilities of its Kinect motion tracking system were clearly oriented towards the casual market. Kinectimals, the game where interaction with a cute animal is the main gameplay mechanics, might as well be t... |
29 June 2010
08:24 GMT |
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Recent research coming from the NPD Group, which also tracks both consoles and videogames sales for the United States market, shows that the average time spent playing games has increased in 2010 when compared to the same period in 2009. Players in the United States aged over 2 have used 13 of their free hours to exp... |
1 June 2010
02:02 GMT |
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Namco Bandai Partners has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Sony Computer Entertainment to publish Demon's Souls in European regions. The game will receive a special edition for the territory and will be arriving exclusively on the PlayStation 3 on June 25.It has been developed by From Softwa... |
20 April 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Ever more increasing levels of difficulty are among the bones of modern gaming and, unfortunately, Mass Effect 2 is, too, guilty of inappropriate use of difficulty. Most of the players will never bother to change the Normal level they get saddled with by default and, by doing so, they will miss the true beauty and ba... |
10 February 2010
16:31 GMT |
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It seems that among European countries, Britain’s inhabitants are those that play online and use videogame consoles the most, according to the United Kingdom National Gamers Survey of 2009. Among those questioned, no less than 73% reported that they are playing videogames regularly and it seems that the trend i... |
30 September 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Nintendo needs to walk quite a fine line with its upcoming games. Last year, hardcore players were flustered by the fact that the Japanese publisher released titles geared towards more inexperienced players.This year, the announced line up includes titles like a new Zelda game for the Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and a ... |
14 July 2009
17:41 GMT |
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It seems that the “Demo Play” feature, which allows players to go through tough areas of Nintendo games easily, will be available not only on the Wii home gaming console but also on the DS and DSi handhelds. This means that, in the near future, players could be just laying back and waiting while games sol... |
9 July 2009
07:27 GMT |
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Tecmo and Koei have just completed their merger, and the company has begun to be increasingly vocal regarding the various hot stories of the videogaming world. Recently, it urged Sony to quickly cut the price of the PlayStation 3 home gaming console in order to increase the install base of the platform and make devel... |
8 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A lot of people are eager to find out what's the secret behind the success of each videogame developed by Blizzard, from the original Starcraft to World of Warcraft going through the Diablo series.Recently, one of the most important people at the company, Rob Pardo, who is the chief of game design, might have of... |
3 July 2009
14:51 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, there has been a lot of debate over the importance of the hardcore and casual gamer market. Nintendo has proven, through its less powerful, but hugely successful, Wii console that casual gamers are much more numerous than dedicated ones and are more attracted to other types of titles, like Wii... |
2 July 2009
13:01 GMT |
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SEGA released two M-rated videogames for the Nintendo Wii lately and the results have been less than stellar, with both titles failing to sell more than 100,000 units in the United States in their first month on sales, if NPD Group numbers are to be believed. Many saw this as proof that the Wii is a platform suited o... |
2 July 2009
02:31 GMT |
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For a hobby long thought of as exclusively masculine and for an industry defined as being a boys’ club, videogaming in welcoming a lot of new gamers each year. A fresh NPD Group report shows that, in 2009, the percentage of female gamers who play on consoles has grown from 23 to 29%, which is really impressive.... |
30 June 2009
03:42 GMT |
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The gaming industry, despite being quite profitable even though the worldwide recession is still taking a toll on other branches of entertainment, hasn't been spared by the economic downturn and the fact that people aren't spending money on video games like they used to speaks volumes in this sense.As such,... |
24 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Nintendo is a hugely successful company, thanks to its very popular consoles and to the fact that it has a lot of franchises that sell like proverbial hot cakes when they arrive on devices made by the Japanese company, whether they are the Wii or the DS handheld. However, even thought the company is quite successful... |
18 June 2009
13:11 GMT |
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