I'm sure everybody knows everything about EA's tender offer for Take Two's shares: basically, Electronic Arts made an offer of $2 billion for its rival company and never changed it, no matter what T2 did. It seemed that GTA's parents had no interest in being acquired, but now it appears that every... |
19 August 2008
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You have probably never heard of a game from Midway called Career Criminal - it's normal, since it was a secret project. Unfortunately, neither will you hear about this title again, since the developing company has announced that the project was canned and no less than 80 people were fired from the Austin studio... |
12 August 2008
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In what might seem to be a shocking statement, having in mind that the games industry keeps growing, former Sony CEO Chris Deering said that just 30% of the games produced manage to recover their costs, so developers must "explore new models" in order to survive. However, this does not mean that the industry is showi... |
12 August 2008
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IGA Worldwide and Double Fusion already give companies the chance to insert in-game advertising, especially for MMO games and other online-based video games. It appears that this is the future: Grand Theft Auto IV proves that huge, lively virtual worlds can be created and, just like the city you live in, these worlds... |
1 August 2008
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The E3 Media and Business Summit (also known as Electronic Entertainment Expo) used to be the biggest and most sought after gaming event of the year but, according to Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre, it is no longer valid: now, the E3 is too small and inappropriate to be labeled as an important event. The inte... |
21 July 2008
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If we are to listen to the ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association), there are two major problems when it comes to the UK's games industry: the rating system, which should be PEGI and the lack of government support, which encourages game developers to migrate to Canada or France, where t... |
9 July 2008
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Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports and former Microsoft corporate vice-president, has updated his official blog, explaining why the company is "against" PC game development. We already had a few hints on that - these are mostly the same reasons why everybody ignores PC systems as game platforms: piracy, piracy and a ... |
4 July 2008
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It might sound funny at first, but we keep hearing about researches showing that gamers have nothing against in-game ads: actually, we hear this so often that we're tempted to believe it's true, especially having in mind that TV shows kind of got us used to that. It's not us saying it, but researches.T... |
17 June 2008
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ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) keeps asking the UK government for help and support when it comes to the country's games industry. The association is generally worried by the fact that more developers are leaving to Canada especially thanks to tax incentives offered by the Canad... |
11 June 2008
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Yesterday, we brought to you the news that SCi Entertainment was facing a possible hostile takeover, with an NBC offer of 100 million dollars and with Warner Bros. being interested in acquiring the company, too. The SCi board has released a statement saying that the company is not for sale at any price, but it seems ... |
25 April 2008
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It was last month when ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) noted the fact that European and especially UK game designers and developers are migrating to Canada, where they get better salaries and pay less taxes. Back then, ELSPA demanded that the government should offer more support to t... |
22 April 2008
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Janco Partners is seeing the videogame industry as one of the few in the United States that is not currently affected - and will not be affected - in the future by the economic downturn that's currently in full swing. According to Mike Hickey, analyst with Janco, the company estimates that gaming software sales,... |
2 April 2008
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