Futuremark says DRM should be “hassle-free”
Posted on | March 10, 2010 | No Comments
With all the hoopla over Ubisoft’s digital rights management debacle and the attacks on their authentication servers, people in the industry have begun weighing in on the topic at hand. Unsurprisingly, PC industry veteran Futuremark has a very different idea of how…
Red Dead Redemption delayed to May
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | No Comments
Previously set for a worldwide release in April, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption has been pushed back to May, information coming from publisher Take-Two’s first quarter fiscal 2010 earnings report reveals.
The Wild West-themed open-world shooter is now scheduled for a May 18…
More Borderlands DLC to come
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | No Comments
Three well-received pieces of downloadable content don’t appear to be sufficient for Gearbox’s Borderlands; according to publisher Take-Two CEO Ben Feder, the add-ons released for the role-playing shooter so far have performed “above expectations,” and more is on the way.
“We’ll…
IGF finalist Limbo coming to XBLA this summer
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | No Comments
At last! Playdead’s gorgeous monochromatic platformer Limbo is to get an Xbox Live Arcade release this summer.
First teased over three years ago (with the footage below), Limbo follows a young boy’s journey to discover the fate of his sister. While very little…
Ex-DICE boss: Mirror’s Edge was in development for 7 years
Posted on | March 3, 2010 | No Comments
Mirror’s Edge was in development for staggering seven years, according to ex-DICE CEO and co-founder Fredrik Liljegren.
In an interview with Gaming Union, Liljegren said: “Knowing that product was in development for about seven years…and given that it wasn’t Mirror’s Edge when we started, but it…
Activision CEO meeting with Infinity Ward
Posted on | March 3, 2010 | No Comments
Sources close to Infinity Ward have informed that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick’s schedule for the day includes two meetings at the Modern Warfare developer. One with the development leads, followed by another one that addresses the entire studio.
What the meetings are about…
Avalanche CEO: developers should cancel more bad games
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | No Comments
After reading his recent interview with Develop Online, it’s hard not to think of Christofer Sundberg as a gaming industry genius. The CEO of Avalanche Studios, developer of Just Cause 2, opined on the need of publishers to cut production…
Ex DICE CEO: Wii is “a virus”
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | No Comments
Former DICE CEO Fredrik Liljegren voiced some strong opinions regarding the Wii in a recent interview with Gaming Union. When asked, Liljegren stated he would only develop a game for the Wii if he believed the game would be “an…
Tretton on PS3: we’ve only “just scratched the surface”
Posted on | February 27, 2010 | No Comments
God of War III is mere weeks away; and it looks good… really, really, really good. Fantastic even. But, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton, developers “are still just starting to harness [the PlayStation 3],” ultimately making it tricky…
THQ to show what PS3/360 can do at E3
Posted on | February 26, 2010 | No Comments
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo will be a venue for THQ to show off the advances it’s made in graphical prowess, CEO Brian Farrell has said.
“I think the theme of this E3, certainly our E3, is ‘look at what we can…
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