Zampella and West get A-list talent representation
Posted on | March 14, 2010 | No Comments
Remember when Activision fired two executives at Infinity Ward, the developer responsible for one of the most popular and highly-lauded game franchises of the current generation? Well, Vince Zampella, former IW CEO, and Jason West, former IW president, have gone…
Runic Games working on Torchlight for consoles
Posted on | March 12, 2010 | No Comments
Runic Games are looking at bringing a port well-received PC action RPG Torchlight to consoles.
Speaking to The Rumble Pack, Runic Games’ CEO Max Schaefer said, “We’re going to put some serious effort into it — pretty quick — getting Torchlight onto consoles. There’s a…
BioWare taking “brand new” approach to end-game content
Posted on | March 10, 2010 | No Comments
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s end-game content will mix the traditional MMO system with “something brand new,” BioWare has revealed.
So-called ’end-game’ content is what incentivises players to continue playing once they’ve hit the maximum level.
The Old Republic’s creative director James Olhen told…
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…
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