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Michael Pachter, who is the outspoken analyst who is watching the video games industry for research firm Wedbush Morgan, has announced that he believes the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard might reach the sales mark of 20 million copies when it launches later in the y... |
12 July 2011
05:50 GMT |
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id Software, the developer which is now part of the Bethesda Softworks family, is getting ready to launch its RAGE first-person shooter this fall, but it seems that the team working there was working on something else using their new id Tech 5 engine before getting the idea for their current project.
Matt Hoper, w... |
12 July 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The Wii U home console from Nintendo has been one of the big launches seen at this year's E3 and it seems that only now do video game publishers have the time needed to play around with prototypes of the platform and seen what kind of gaming experiences they can craft on it.
John Riccitiello, who is the chief... |
11 July 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has posted an official announcement on their website in which they bid farewell to all the fans of the Halo franchise and express their hope that the franchise will prosper under the watchful eye of Microsoft and the development talent of 343 Industries.
The message has been offered jus... |
11 July 2011
09:41 GMT |
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The Sony Online Entertainment division of the video game publisher has announced that it is currently working on PlanetSide 2, a re-imagined version of its well-known mix between an MMO and a first-person shooter.
The game is set to deliver an experience that is close to the original, including massive battles, em... |
11 July 2011
04:21 GMT |
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How long can little girls with asymmetrical haircuts scare someone? Let's say they get a man for a few times when they first meet. Let's say that the scare attempts are well hidden behind mech action and some very solid shooting mechanics the second time around. Can the same horror clichés work a thi... |
6 July 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Respawn Entertainment, the video game developer that was created by former Infinity Ward leaders Jason West and Vince Zampella, has posted new information on its website showing that no less than 40 of its current staff have been engaged in the creation of hit title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
At the moment, R... |
4 July 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The developer Respawn Entertainment, created by former Modern Warfare 2 developers and Infinity Ward leaders Vince Zampella and Jason West, has released the first image taken from their new video game project.
The image, which you can see attached to this article, is rather blurry and it was offered on the officia... |
30 June 2011
05:44 GMT |
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After almost 15 years of extremely troubled development, Duke Nukem Forever has been finally delivered to fans that have all but forgotten about this classic series that last appeared in the late 1990s.
After spending a huge amount of time in development at 3D Realms, eventually causing the studio to go bankrupt, ... |
27 June 2011
07:40 GMT |
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I kinda like the concepts behind the F.E.A.R. series of games, the combination between a pretty traditional first person shooter and the sudden scare elements, even if both of the previous games in the Warner Bros. published franchise were flawed in a lot of ways.F.E.A.R. 3 arrived this summer and promises to deliver... |
23 June 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Two of the biggest video game launches of the fall of 2011 will be Battlefield 3, the first person shooter from DICE and Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard, and the two games seem to be locked in a statement war that could last up until their respective lau... |
20 June 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The Wii U has been confirmed as being able to deliver High Definition graphics when it launches, presumably in the summer of 2012, and the executives at Nintendo are saying that one of the main motives for the upgrade to its capabilities has been the need to get some first-person shooter games to the new gaming platf... |
16 June 2011
17:51 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry has forecast that the recently launched Duke Nukem Forever first-person shooter will only sell about 1.5 to 2 million copies during its life on store shelves, with initial reports from retail outlets showing mediocre interest in the game.Arvind Bhatia, who is an analyst wit... |
16 June 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has released a community-focused mobile application called simply Bungie Mobile and says that this is just the first move in a wider new focus for the company, which aims to make it easier for players to connect with its titles when they are on the move.Bungie Mobile is designed to allow g... |
16 June 2011
03:31 GMT |
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One of the biggest battles of the year in terms of video game launches is set to be the one between Battlefield 3, from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard.And the main executive of EA is keen to emphasize how the E3 presence of ... |
13 June 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The big push at Bethesda seemed to be for the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim but the company was also showing a lot of love for RAGE, the game that well known developer id Software has developed for a long while using their all new game engine.I managed to take a look at the game last year at the Gamescom event... |
9 June 2011
23:52 GMT |
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Metro 2033 was a pretty weird game but video game publisher THQ managed to make a good bet by taking the 4A Games developed title and pushing it to the Western market so the company is pushing that bet further with the newly announced Metro: Last Light.At the E3 2011 THQ stand Last Light is one of the stars, getting ... |
8 June 2011
00:25 GMT |
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Developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts have announced a new set of pre-order offers linked to their upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 3, which will be delivered only in the United Kingdom through retailers GAME and gamestation.
The new Limited Edition Physical Warfare Pack will get a number of exclusiv... |
24 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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An internal memo from the leaders of video game publisher Activision Blizzard reveals that the company changed its plans about the official reveal of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 when the big leak from Infiniti Ward happened.
Activision was apparently already preparing to officially reveal the first-person shoot... |
23 May 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Both the rumors that began to appear during last week and the big information leak that has recently arrived from inside Infinity Ward mentioned that publisher Activision Blizzard was set to launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8 this year, and now at least one major source inside a retailer confirms the... |
17 May 2011
05:43 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has been very tight lipped about the Call of Duty title it plans to launch during the fall of this year, but it's media strategy has been undone by a massive leak of information about the game apparently coming from more than one man inside developer Infinity Ward.
The... |
16 May 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has moved to trademark the name and the logo of something called the Bungie Aerospace Corporation, filling both in the state of Delaware and with the Washington Secretary of State.
The governing persons for the new business are Harold Ryan, who is the actual president of Bungie and will... |
11 May 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The internal memo has been acquired by website Giant Bomb via unspecified means and it is titled “Isn’t Call of Duty today just like Guitar Hero was a few years back?” and was written by Eric Hirshberg, one of the executives at Activision.
The tone of the e-mail is upbeat, talking about how the v... |
21 April 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has re-opened registrations for those who are interested in taking part in beta testing for the projects that the company has under development at the moment, and all those interested can go to the official Bungie website and sign up.
The company first offered beta testing spots late in... |
21 April 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Video games developer Bungie is no longer working with Microsoft on the well-known Halo brand, but the company believes that its new relationship with Activision Blizzard will allow its games to become even better known and increase the reputation of the company. Speaking to IndustryGamers, Marty O'Donnell has ... |
14 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Danny Bilson, who is a vice president at video game publisher THQ and one of the most public faces of the company, has said that Homefront, the recently launched first-person shooter that was created by Kaos Studios, deserves more on Metacritic than 71.
Speaking about the recently launched Homefront to IGN, he sta... |
13 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Danny Bilson, who is one of the main public faces of video game publisher THQ and a vice president in charge of game development, has said that his company has a number of plans to differentiate the first-person shooter Homefront from other titles in its genre, like Call of Duty or Battlefield.
Speaking at the MI6... |
11 April 2011
10:01 GMT |
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The lawsuit that links Vince Zampella and Jason West, the founders of Infinity Ward, and rival publishers Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts will probably take quite a bit more time to be solved, but at least one analyst believes that the developers at the center of the affair will not get too much out of it.
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6 April 2011
05:43 GMT |
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Despite a new delay, the development team at Gearbox that is working on the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever is still confident that the project will be a successful one, and its leader believes that the gaming world will be poorer if the main character does not make an appearance in 2011.
Randy Pitchford, who is t... |
5 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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This week was all torn between strategic movement and tactical battles, which means we have a full review of Total War: Shogun 2, the latest game from The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA.
We also found time for some North Korean future conflict, with a full review of Homefront.
The THQ shooter also receive... |
27 March 2011
09:41 GMT |
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First-person shooters are becoming more and more numerous these days, with all new titles trying to achieve some of the big profits earned by Activision's Call of Duty or EA's Battlefield franchises.Homefront is the newest contender, coming from Kaos Studios and THQ, which tries to break the mold through an... |
25 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has announced that its first-person shooter Homefront has managed to sell more than 1 million copies all over North America, Europe and Asia, with another 1.4 million units shipped to store, ready to sell in the coming weeks and months.Homefront is important to THQ because the company has inv... |
25 March 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts is preparing to announce a new third-person shooter game, with the development process requiring the hiring of a senior multiplayer designer and a cinematics focused director.
The EA Los Angeles studio has not said that the project and the job openings are linked, but the annou... |
24 March 2011
14:31 GMT |
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The text for a career opportunity on the official site of Raven Software offers evidence that the developer is involved in the development of a new Call of Duty video game, although it’s not clear whether it's the title that will be delivered in 2012 or one that is just starting the production process.
The jo... |
24 March 2011
06:39 GMT |
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Crysis 2 is now out in the United States and the developer Crytek that has worked on the game has already launched a patch for it, with the biggest change introduced being that the PC version now had no trace of an auto aim feature.This is the full list of fixes for the first Crysis 2 patch:- the server browser now s... |
23 March 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Ben Cousens, who is the leader of the development studio that is creating the upcoming shooter Battlefield Play4Free, says that his company has determined that all gamers engaging with the genre are hardcore in their own way, competitive and interested in comparing their performance with that of other players.
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23 March 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Battlefield 3 is still about six months away from a launch date, but the developers at DICE have to answer some pretty specific questions about their upcoming first-person shooter, which managed to impress a lot of people via its first through trailers.
Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine, Magnus Troedss... |
21 March 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Epic Games impressed a lot of video game industry watchers and fans with the newly launched Samaritan technology demo, which shows the new graphical abilities of the Unreal Engine 3 technology, but one leading executive says that this does not mean that Samaritan will automatically become the company's next hit.... |
11 March 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Kaos Studio, as the developer, and THQ, as the publisher, have announced that their upcoming first-person shooter Homefront has gone gold, meaning that the coding on the title is complete and that the manufacturing of game disks is beginning, and have said that the two companies are now preparing the infrastructure n... |
7 March 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The recent impressive trailer and the gameplay demo shown for Battlefield 3 were running on a PC and some gamers have questioned whether the same level of quality and fluidity can be achieved when playing the final game on home consoles.
DICE says that it has specifically designed the Frostbite 2 engine in order t... |
7 March 2011
09:24 GMT |
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With the developers at Bungie neither confirming nor outright denying that they are making an MMO FPS as their next project, the developers at DICE, who are currently working on Battlefield 3, have said that creating a massive multiplayer game using first-person shooter mechanics is not a project that they see as fea... |
7 March 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Video-game developer Bungie has said that the widely reported announcement made at the Game Developers Conference that it was working on a massive multiplayer online game was not a confirmation on the part of the company but only a joke that played on recent rumors about the work the company was doing.
Rumors abou... |
7 March 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Killzone 3 might have been launched officially just one whole week ago, but it seems that the people at developer Guerrilla Games are already letting their minds wander over to the fourth installment in the series, saying that the PlayStation 3 has the power to sustain another Killzone game.The statements could also ... |
4 March 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Both publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE have lately talked a lot about their upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 3, and one of the most important things about the early demos was that everything that was shown was rendered on the PC.
Speaking to ShackNews Karl Magnus Troedsson, who is the general m... |
4 March 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has announced that Homefront, the upcoming first-person shooter that will be launched in the middle of March, is the most pre-ordered title in the history of the company, with United States gamers alone reserving more than 200,000 copies, a figure apparently matched by players all around the ... |
4 March 2011
04:43 GMT |
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I would have liked to see Killzone 3 push on the definition of the blockbuster first-person shooter more and deliver something new, but the very nature of the game meant that there was little chance of that. But the creators at Guerrilla Games managed to deliver a very solid experience that manages to feel tougher an... |
2 March 2011
20:41 GMT |
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I loved most of the cutscenes in Killzone 3 as long as they did not employ any of the characters that the game mentions as heroes because, to be frank, both Rico, Sev, the Captain and Jammer are a bit boring, a bit too melodramatic and much too obsessed about killing Helghast for my liking.
I paid much more attent... |
2 March 2011
18:11 GMT |
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At the Game Developers Conference, Sony has announced that its PlayStation Home social space for the PlayStation 3 has been downloaded more than 19 million times by those who use the gaming platform and that it will be delivering a new version of it this spring.
The new version of Home, which is labeled 1.5, will ... |
2 March 2011
02:58 GMT |
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I did not expect to be so involved in Killzone 3, the new first-person shooter that is exclusive to the PlayStation 3, so soon, mainly because I had very mixed feelings about its predecessor and the pre-launch hype seemed to indicate a better game but nothing ground breaking.But it took less than one full hour spent ... |
26 February 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Killzone 3 is one of the biggest launches of early 2011 and a first-person shooter that is exclusive to the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console from Sony, developed by well-known studio Guerrilla Games.
14:00. It seems that Killzone 3 will make me play as the enemies of mankind...
14:11. The game has what seems t... |
24 February 2011
18:01 GMT |
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