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Dragon Quest IX Coming To North America

By Kemuel Stewart ⋅ August 7, 2009 ⋅ Comments

Donating sales in Japan, Dragon Quest IX has yet to see the bread its success, but if you had yours eye fixated on when you’ll see the game in North America, I have some very important news for you. According to the president of Square Enix, Yoichi Wada, they’ll being looking into bringing Dragon Quest [...]

EA Wants More Console Price Cuts

By Adam Jirouni ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Comments

EA CEO John Riccitiello is known for his opinions, which are often controversial, and in his latest outburst, it’s no different. During EA’s Q1 conference call, Riccitiello stated that a price cut will move more hardware, and that they’ll like to see a cut later this year.
“We think pricing will move hardware,” he said. “We anticipate price [...]

SDCC 09: GI Joe: Rise of Cobra Impressions

By James Pikover ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Comments

It goes without saying that movie games suck. They do. If you’ve ever purchased one, you know that nine out of ten times, you regret that purchase, and the ten remaining percent you can’t decide whether it was actually worthwhile, or not. While it’s bad enough the GI Joe movie looks like it could very [...]

Christmas Market “Brutal” For New IPs

By Kemuel Stewart ⋅ August 3, 2009 ⋅ Comments

Speaking exclusively to Gamesindustry.biz, Ubisoft Game Designer Michael de Plater acknowledges that the festive holiday season is a “brutal” duration to release new IPs and that many good games could fall wayside as a result.
“It’s a bit tough to launch a new IP exactly at Christmas when you’re head-to-head with blockbuster sequels. It’s interesting to [...]

Activision Reveals Guitar Hero 5’s Set List

By Adam Jirouni ⋅ July 30, 2009 ⋅ Comments

Activision have unveiled the full song-list for Guitar Hero 5. The list is full of hits from artists such as Megadeth, Blink 182, and 3 Doors Down. Anyway, it’s not a terrible list for a GH game, but its contents came as no surprise. When Guitar Hero 5 ships this September, your inner rock star [...]

Gearbox Isn’t Doing The Next Halo Project

By Adam Jirouni ⋅ July 30, 2009 ⋅ Comments

As reported by so many sources stating that Gearbox maybe working on the next Halo project, which was unofficially titled Halo 4. It seems that you may scratch Gearbox off the list of developers that are making the next Halo title because on the official twitter account for Halo Waypoint, it confirmed that the developer is [...]

Ubisoft Delays Splinter Cell: Conviction, And More

By Kevin Lee ⋅ July 27, 2009 ⋅ Comments

UbiSoft briefly mentioned in their financial report today that several of their major upcoming titles have been delayed. Yes, including Conviction.
Anyway, Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2, both of which were slotted for holiday 09 releases, have now been pushed into early 2010. And, in other news, I Am Alive and Ghost Recon 4 were, unluckily, [...]

THQ Wins Legal Battle Against Jakks

By Kemuel Stewart ⋅ July 27, 2009 ⋅ Comments

Forever. Sadly, that’s how long THQ and Jakks Pacific have been fighting over the net rate sales associated their WWE video game series, more pacifically back in 2006 when the net rate increased. Today, that conflict has been settled, declaring THQ the winner.
“As we expected, we have prevailed in this matter,” said James M. [...]

SDCC 09: SEGA Announces Iron Man 2

By Kemuel Stewart ⋅ July 22, 2009 ⋅ Comments

With the release of the sequel soon underway, there’s no doubt that there’s going to be a video game tie-in. However, with the first Iron Man video game, the story wasn’t well represented. This is what brings us to this announcement.
SEGA announced today that renowned comic book author, Matt Fraction will be creating the game’s [...]

Dead Space Devs Jump Ship To Activision