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Analyst: Industry Will Disintegrate Without Used Game Market

The recent discussion about a used game blocking technology for the next generation of home consoles has prompted an analyst to argue that any kind of solution to eliminate used games sales will hurt hardware developers more than it could help them. Michael Pachter, who watches the video game industry for Wedbush Mo...

22 May 2012
05:55 GMT

Heavy Rain Developer Not Interested in Next-Gen Consoles

Despite the new technology that they will introduce, some video high-profile game developers have no interest in seeing what Microsoft and Sony can do with the next generation of video game consoles and believe that complex experiences can be delivered via the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. David Cage, who is the l...

21 May 2012
10:36 GMT

Volition Working on Downloadable Title, Next-Gen Consoles

Volition, the development studio best known for their recent work on the Saints Row series, is now rumored to be working on a project linked to the new generation of home consoles, a full new game linked to the franchise, in addition to also being involved with the inSane trilogy and with an unannounced downloadable ...

17 May 2012
03:04 GMT

Only New Consoles Can Rescue Racing Game Genre

The racing game genre is in a slump at the moment. according to a veteran of the genre. and only the launch of completely new hardware could drag it out. Gareth Wilson, who is the former leader of Bizzare Creations and who now works at Sumo Digital on the new Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing Transformed, told the Offic...

2 May 2012
15:21 GMT

Total War Series Is Ready to Make the Move to Next Gen Consoles

The Total War series has been one of the most successful strategy series on the PC, but the development team at The Creative Assembly has stated that the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 lack the memory they need to run it properly, although plans are in place to deliver it to the next generation of devices from Sony a...

31 March 2012
04:21 GMT

God of War Creator No Longer Excited by Next Gen Home Consoles

David Jaffe, who is the creator of such video games as God of War and Twisted Metal, has said that he is no longer excited about the hardware changes that will be part of the next wave of home consoles and that the most interesting advances are now linked to handhelds like the PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo 3D...

14 March 2012
20:51 GMT

Witcher 2 Developer Plans 2014 and 2015 Releases on PC and Next Gen Consoles

Video game developer CD Projekt RED has announced that it has plans to launch two new video games, one during 2014 and one during 2015, which will arrive both on the PC and on next-generation home consoles, powered by an all-new game engine that the development team is now working on. Speaking to Eurogamer, Adam Bad...

20 February 2012
05:52 GMT

Ubisoft CEO Says New Hardware Is Coming

Ubisoft is, arguably, the third most powerful publisher in the West at the moment and what the company is doing for the long term is interesting to all those who are watching the world of videogames. After revealing the financial results of his companies, its Chief Executive Officer, Yves Guillemot, announced that Ub...

4 May 2009
16:11 GMT

This Is the Last Generation of Gaming Consoles

It takes some courage to say that the very industry that you are being paid to watch and try to predict might soon (on a historic scale) be facing a significant extinction event. But Michael Patcher, who is an analyst with Wedbush Morgan, is predicting that the current home console generation is the last one and that...

25 March 2009
05:41 GMT

Analyze That: When Will We See Next Gen Consoles

Let's face it, gamers, current gen consoles are already obsolete. Not hardware wise, as there seems to be enough processing power in them to make them a match for mainstream PCs for at least a few years. Not software wise, as there are interesting games and AAA titles that are coming up on both the Xbox 360 and ...

4 August 2008
19:21 GMT

Unreal 4 Engine at Least Four Years Away

Mike Capps from Epic is one of the people invited at Microsoft's Gamefest 2008 to talk about games development using the Unreal 3 Engine, which is the most licensed middleware application in the world of videogames, and to detail the plans that Epic Games has regarding the future development of the engine.Tim Sw...

25 July 2008
07:54 GMT

Unreal 4 Far, Far Away

Epic Games is one of the biggest success stories of the videogame industry. They made a splash ten years ago with their instant hit Unreal, a game that pushed the limits of hardware while largely reinventing the genre of the FPS. Then, Unreal Tournament created a multiplayer culture and was the reason for many late n...

10 April 2008
03:09 GMT


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