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…
The Old Republic returns to Taris
Posted on | February 28, 2010 | No Comments
In the ongoing series of behind-the-scenes videos for Star Wars: The Old Republic, BioWare discusses the process of designing the large planets that players will get to step foot on. The focus of this developer dispatch however, is a planet…
Rare NES game sells for $41,300 on eBay
Posted on | February 28, 2010 | No Comments
The Nintendo World Championship cart for the original NES has been touted by many gamers to be the rarest videogame of all time. Despite its rarity, another game, Stadium Events (also for the NES) has surpassed its price point by selling last night…
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