Entries in 'usa' (92)
US: Game retail kiosks scrapped
St John returns
Planning a strong push into the games sector, social network hi5 has hired outspoken industry veteran Alex St. John as president and chief technology officer.
US: Thanksgiving Wii sales top 500K
US Wii sales for the crucial Thanksgiving week checked in at 550,000 units, according to Nintendo, down from 800,000 last year.
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Blizzard explains Diablo III delay
Blizzard executive video president of game design Rob Pardo has been explaining why Diablo III's arrival is still a ways off, and grappling with the perennial problem of announcing big ...
Datel hits MS with memory suit
Datel has filed a lawsut against Microsoft, following the latter's Dashboard update which rendered third-party memory cards useless.
Obama's Little Big plan
On Monday, U.S. president Barack Obama unveiled an education campaign designed to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in children's education. A raft of companies and charity foundations announced ...
Editorial: Good riddance to NIMF
There's a bizarre sentiment in some game outlets that the closure of U.S. busy-body media-watching outfit The National Institute on Media and the Family, might somehow be detrimental to the ...
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Xbox Live class action begins
Abingdon Law, with offices in and around Texas, has posted the outlines of its "investigation" while seeking out barred Xbox Live players hoping for recompense.
GameStop up and down
Slower sales of hardware were blamed on the dip, but overall Gamestop enjoyed a decent quarter. Sales rose 8.2% to $1.83 billion, while profits rose from $46.7 million to $52.2 ...
China warns games 'too low-brow'
China's Ministry of Culture has issued a circular demanding that game companies refrain from content that is "not up to standard" or offering "lowbrow cultural content that is having a ...
CoD MMO reports intensify
A lengthy feature in The Los Angeles Times yesterday covered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's astounding commercial success, once again framing the game's $550 million five-day revenues against ...
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MMOs fill 15% of game time
Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report says gamers in the U.S. and Europe spend over five hours a week playing MMOs - or 15% of total play time. The report includes ...
Fitness chain turns to Wii
A retail campaign entitled 'We know fit....we know fun' will be launched today in selected outlets, with a full roll-out planned for the spring. Staff have been trained in the ...
Windstorm partners Russian artists
Windstorm was founded earlier this year by Dusty Monk, best known for work on Age of Empires III and Halo Wars. He said, "We worked with 226 throughout the development ...
Former Viscerals swing Sledgehammer
At Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores) Schofield (pictured) was the executive producer and Michael Condrey was the senior development director of Dead Space, before they quit earlier in the ...
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Pandemic closure official
Tweets from inside the company late on Tuesday illustrated the miserable aftermath of the shock decision. Drew Marlowe, a game desiger at Pandemic, tweeted, "It's official, Pandemic is shut ...
More Games as Gifts for Women
Forty-two percent of American adults plan to give or hope to receive video game this holiday season, according to a new report released today by U.S trade body, the Entertainment ...
Entertainment Subs Up 7%
The new data shows that traditional subscriptions to newspapers and magazines are falling away, but digital subscriptions are holding up despite tough economic times.
Fils-Aime: Publishers Missing Out
Last week EA's chief executive John Riccitiello expressed disappointment in Wii's performance and its weaknesses as a platform for third parties.
World of Warcraft's Schizophrenia
Five years on, WoW's designers are working through what they see as the mistakes of the past.
Diversity Key as Southpeak Grows
The company, which publishes My Baby for DS as well as shooters and fantasy RPGs, notched up sales of $16.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, up from $8.3 ...
Electronic Arts: We're Hiring
Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Digital Entertainment Conference in New York on Thursday, chief financial officer Eric Brown said, "We will be hiring back positions in low-cost locations to ...
Wii Play tops ten-year sales charts
Nintendo’s Wii Play, which comes bundled with the WiiMote, is the best selling game of the 21st century in North America, according to new NPD data.
US: Sony's PS3 titles struggle to hit 1m
A new report from GameSetWatch shows that to date only one Sony published PS3 exclusive title, Insomniac’s Resistance: Fall of Man, has sold over 1m units in North America in ...
