Though gaming support on the operating system could be considered as dead, Valve has announced that its Steam, gaming digital downloading service, will be headed to Apple’s Mac operating systems as soon as next month, which is April. Taping into a market that has been long ignored by, mostly, every gaming front.
The launch of Steam [...]
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 [...]
They’re currently at the tip of an industry controversy; respectively because of the companies Infinity Ward crisis. However, during this fiasco, Activision revealed that Sledgehammer Games, a newly formed studio led by former Visceral Games executives, will be developing a new Call of Duty title that will “extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre.”
Exactly what [...]
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 hard to say that something has “out done” the original without some kind of proof, something without a doubt proofing that the successor is better than the original. Throughout the review process, I considered searching for this. Then I stopped and realized that I needed no evidence; this sequel is proof on its own. [...]
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 [...]
There’s no doubt that Final Fantasy XIII is a massive game; however, its developers don’t have any plans when it comes to adding to the experience. When being question about the games downloadable content, FFXIII’s producer and director revealed that they don’t have any plans for downloadable content.
“Regarding the DLC content, we feel that the [...]
Though there were hopes for a PC version post-console release, Microsoft shattered any question of their being a PC version. According to Strategy Informer, a Microsoft spokesperson told them that Alan Wake will no longer have a PC version; something that its developers, Remedy Entertainment, were camera shy to talk about since the version’s suspending.
“Some [...]
Though I’m not necessary “pissed” by this announcement, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux revealed that Fable III won’t have a traditional health indicator, or a heads-up display. Instead, Fable III will use the environment to show how close you are to death. “Look at the screen!” Molyneux gushed during an X10 preview event. “It’s completely clean!”
But, [...]