BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins will be released simultaneously across the platforms including Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 20th. The announcement came in SpikeTV's Pre-E3 show.
Source: BigDownload
Friday, 29 May 2009
Japanese Hardware Sales Week Ending May 24th
Blizzard Announces Second Wave Of BlizzCon Tickets
Blizzard Entertainment today announced that tickets for its fourth BlizzCon gaming convention will go on sale tomorrow, May 30th, at 10:00am PDT, when a second allotment will be released. Tickets are priced at USD $125 each and can be purchased through the company’s event website here.
Source: Internal
Cryptic Working On Atari Remakes
Cryptic has confirmed in a company financial statement they are working on remakes for existing Atari IPs:
“Cryptic Studios is working on the development of a series of new games based on Atari’s existing and historically successful IPs."So you can most likely expect a new Space Invaders title.
Source: Internal
Atari Announces Cancellation Of Several Projects
Atari have announced in a statement that they will be cancelling several projects "which do not meet higher return on investment criteria and require significant working capital investments.” This is hardly surprising considering recent revelations of Infogrames' losses of €226.1 during the fiscal year of 2009.
Considering the previous year's net loss of €51.1 million, the company looks to "improve the cash position" of its business and to focus on "more cost-effective" mass-market and online games.
At present, there is no confirmation of which projects are to be axed.
Source: Develop
Atlus Announces Trauma Team For Wii In 2010
Atlus has confirmed Trauma Team is coming to the Wii sometime in 2010 for the US. Nothing has been mentioned about Europe just yet. How awesome is the screenshot on the left? It's blatently pervy!
Source: Internal
Ubisoft's Killing Day To Resurface?
Ubisoft filed for a new trademark on Tuesday for the title Killing Day under "Game software and electronic game programs, namely, software games". The all-but-forgotten title was last seen at the PS3 conference at E3 in 2005, with no news since.
Although only a copyright and by no means confirmation of the game, it joins recent Ubisoft files for Driver: The Recruit (filed last month) and C.O.P. The Recruit, but have yet to have any information announced.
Source: EG
Phil Harrison No Longer President Of Atari
It has been reported yesterday that Phil Harrison is no longer serving as the President of Atari, a role he has only held since 3 March 2008. The former Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is no longer filling the role of Directeur Général Délégué for Infogrames/Atari.
During Atari's annual fiscal report, they stated:
"Because of a shift of business operations to the US, Phil Harrison will move from the role of President to that of non-executive Director of the Group. As all Board members, he will continue to assist, support and guide the Company's strategy."
Sounds like a demotion to us...
Source: Kotaku
Yoichi Wada: "Industry Ready For Second Stage Of Growth"
President of Square Enix, Yoichi Wada, has recently declared how he thinks that the videogames industry is about to enter into a new period of growth. Since the industry has now established itself as a mainstream form of entertainment, he disputes the idea that demand for games has levelled off:
“Some people say that demand for games has levelled off. In some respects this is true, but in others it is not. Until now, the history of the game industry has mainly been about broadening horizons, meaning developing territory and increasing customer base. I think some people say it's levelled off because they believe this growth has almost reached its limit.”“However, we believe this is in fact the foundation for the second stage of growth, and that it proves that games have become established worldwide as another genre of entertainment. From now on, it will grow further as an established mainstream entertainment, and there will be further convergence of media and entertainment.”
Source: Official
New Sony Ericsson Phone Is PS3 Compatible
Sony Ericsson has revealed its in-development mobile phone Aino will be compatible with the PlayStation 3. The touch-screen mobile is set to allow users to view PS3 media on the handheld and act as a remote control, when connected via a local network or the internet.
Alexandre Cardon, market business manager at Sony Ericsson, commented on the device:
"Media Home and Remote Play with PlayStation 3 are key steps in broadening the entertainment experiences users can enjoy on their Sony Ericsson phone and gives a taste of our vision of the future."
The Aino is also expected to support services including Facebook and YouTube, and will feature a 3 inch 16 million colour screen, 8.1 megapixel camera and Geo-tagging functionality.
Source: GI
2K Confirms BioShock 2 Release Platforms
2K Games mentioned some BioShock 2 release dates earlier this week but didn't confirm on which platform, as you do... today however they cleared everything up confirming the title is coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 30th in the US and November 3rd in the UK.
Source: Internal
Xseed Secures US Rights For Fragile: Farewell Ruins Of The Moon
Xseed has announced it has secured the North American publishing rights to Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon scheduled for release in Winter on the Wii. Jun Iwasaki, president of Xseed Games commented:
Source: Internal
“We are ecstatic to be able to finally confirm Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon for gamers in North America. We have received countless requests from eager gamers pleading with us to publish this title, and it gives us great joy to be able to give the public what they want while being able to work on such a great game.”
G4TV Posts Photos Of E3 Set Up
G4TV has posted up photos of E3 in the set up stages before all the magic. Go check out the source for more photos, it's nearly here! It all kicks off on Monday.
Source: G4TV
New Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Trailer
EA has released a pre-E3 trailer for the new upcoming Harry Potter game, the Half-Blood Prince. Looks alright, Expect it to shift a bucket load of units when it launches alongside the movie in July. Trailer at the source.
Source: VG247
Eidos Announces Batman: Arkham Asylum Release Date
Eidos has confirmed their highly anticipated title, Batman: Arkham Asylum will released in the US on August 25th and across Europe on August 28th. Expect to see more at E3 next week.
Source: MCV
Third Splinter Cell: Conviction Video On Official Website
Ubisoft has updated the official Splinter Cell: Conviction website with a third and final video depecting Sam Fisher complaining about wanting to go home. Go watch it.
Source: Official
Preorder The Conduit At Play.com And Get Free Speakers
For those Wii owners out there interested in getting The Conduit when it's released next month check out Play.com because if you preorder and purchase the title there, you'll get some snazzy exclusive The Conduit branded speakers for your MP3 player or Laptop etc. Go check out the source for more info.
Source: Play.com
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