Though it doesn’t eclipse the ground breaking sales of its rival, Electronic Arts have announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has sold over 2.3 million units since its release earlier this month. Meaning that, Bad Company 2 has achieved double-platinum status within two weeks of it being on the market, which is an remarkable achievement.
Along with this [...]
It’s pretty safe to say that Universal Media Discs are a dead content format. However, during Sony’s development session at GDC, the company said that they have no plans to abandon its optical disc format. The session was about the marketplace advantages and befits that exist on all PlayStation platforms.
When discussing its portable platform, the [...]
Though developers can quickly integrate the technology into their games, the upcoming Medal of Honor reboot won’t take advantage of Sony’s motion tech. According to Medal of Honor creative director, Richard Farrelly, the upcoming Medal of Honor reboot will not feature “PlayStation Move” capability.
“We had a look at it, but we decided that it needed to [...]
Throughout its development, Sony didn’t say much about its motion controller device. However, during the companies development programing presentation at the Game Developers Conference, the PlayStation-maker released mountains of details about the upcoming device, a device entitled “Move”.
Fully titled “PlayStation Move”, Move uses a combination of wand-style controlling devices and the PlayStation Eye camera [...]
People, for obvious reasons, stated Microsoft’s platform as the development lead for Bayonetta; we later gained conformation from its developer, sparking a bit of frustration with fans. As a reason of repentance, Platinum Games have announced that their next title, Vanquish will feature Sony’s platform as the development lead.
“We’re leading development on PS3,” said director [...]
To many, the previous installment into the series was a bit of a disappointment. However, it seems that Zipper Interactive is fixing to atone for the mistakes of developer Slant Six, who developed Confrontation. Because Sony have announced that Zipper Interactive are developing the next installment into the SOCOM series, SOCOM 4.
According to the PlayStation [...]
Though the developer recently released the industry fastest grossing title, Infinity Ward still lost two company heads; even though the company was considered as “intangible”. However, these loses aren’t economically related. According to big brother company Activision, Infinity Ward’s Jason West and Vince Zampella were simultaneously left go due to “breaches of contract”.
However, Activision doesn’t [...]
The two technical parted ways when Team Ninja Head Tomonobu Itagaki left two years ago, however since then, Itagaki and Tecmo have been tussling in court; Itagaki claims that Tecmo owns him $1.4 million in unpaid bonuses. But, the courts won’t be settling this agreement. Because Tecmo and Itagaki have finally reached to an agreement.
“I thank [...]
It’s likely the most anticipated game of this year, but how much space does it take up on a Blu-Ray disc? Apparently, alot! Tim Moss, Director of Technology at Sony Santa Monica, revealed the monstrous amount of space that God of War III will take up on a Blu-Ray disc.
In a tweet placed this morning, [...]
Harmonix, the original Guitar Hero developers, were trade by Activision in 2006. However, since then, Harmonix have developed the Rock Band series, a series that has produced heavy competition for Activision in the music game genre. Now, almost four years later, Bobby Kotick, Activision CEO, says that letting go of Harmonix was a mistake.
“We had always known them as sort of [...]