Entries in 'core' (47)
Schappert: "Social and mobile games ARE harming console biz"
Forget the recession: our depressed retail market is thanks to pressure from free apps and mobile games.
Iwata admits mass-market focus cost Nintendo
Nintendo’s early success in appealing to the mass market and new gamers has eventually lead to the company’s current struggles, president Satoru Iwata has admitted.
THQ quits licensed kids games sector
We’re used to publishers broadening their reach and distancing themselves from the core, but a new strategic shift from THQ is seeing it do the opposite.
Nintendo returns to the casual market for next 3DS push
The key to rejuvenating the 3DS in the market place could be a return to the mainstream markets, Nintendo has said.
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Core games star in strong September
A big month for core gaming helped UK games retailers take £125.6m during September.
GTAIII will be released for legacy iOS devices
Rockstar has confirmed that it does in fact intend to release Grand Theft Auto III on older, single-core iPhone and iPads.
ANALYSIS: Dark Souls and the core gamer
MCV looks at what the arrival of the toughest game, Namco Bandai's Dark Souls, ever says about the market...
MS “not forcing” Kinect on devs or gamers
Microsoft has reasserted that developers are not being forced to incorporate Kinect functionality into their Xbox 360 games and that Kinect functionality will not be forced on core gamers.
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MS: Core Kinect games won't be contrived
In an interview with MCV, the EMEA VP of Xbox Chris Lewis has said that Kinect implementation in core Xbox 360 games will not happen simply for the sake of ...
OnLive: 'We'll be No.1 for core games'
After the jostling for podium positions at E3, OnLive has declared itself “the fourth platform” – and predicted that it will soon be No.1 for core gaming.
Core leadership under threat
The rising market in what stat trackers NPD 'digital gamers' is threatening to overthrow hardcore gamers as the most active segment in the market.
Wii U 'friendlier' to core games
Nintendo's upcoming Wii U will be a far "friendlier" platform to traditional hardcore gamers and publishers who release games for that audience.
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Wii U 'up to parity' with 360, PS3
id Software's John Cormack has said that Nintendo's Wii U is, on raw tech terms at least, directly comparable to "other consoles" – namely the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Insomniac: Core audience isn't expanding
One of the most successful console developers of our generation has warned that the traditional core games audience as we know it "isn’t really expanding much".
EA: Mobile needs more core games
Travis Boatman, EA Mobile VP of Worldwide Studios, claims there is huge market potential for core-focused mobile games.
Kudo shrugs off Kinect criticism
The man behind Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect has shrugged off the less then enthusiastic response that the motion camera has received from some elements of the internet games community.
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Kinect as ‘core’ as Xbox Live
Microsoft hopes that the Kinect motion camera will one day be as integral part of the average Xbox 360 owner’s user experience as Xbox Live has become today.
Sonic ‘has to consider’ younger fans
Speaking to MCV, Sega’s Sonic’s brand director David Corless has countered claims that Sonic fans “are hard to please”, adding that the publisher is now obligated to tailor modern Sonic ...
TGS brings Kinect to the core
Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show press event has finally delivered what all the pre-release hype until now has failed to – a range of upcoming titles that will very much place ...
So who is Kinect for exactly?
Microsoft’s mixed message over its ambitions to market the Kinect motion cameras to the traditional hardcore Xbox 360 audience continues.
Child of Eden cools Kinect functionality
Though Q Entertainment’s Child of Eden will still support Kinect to some degree when it arrives at retail in 2011, the developer has now claimed that Microsoft’s motion camera is ...
Child of Eden ‘will speak to core’
With Microsoft sending out mixed messages about the potential hardcore appeal of Kinect, Ubisoft has claimed that one of its first Kinect titles will really “speak” to the core Xbox ...
Kinect paves way for ‘expansion beyond the core’
On the face of it Microsoft’s £129.99 RRP for Kinect suggests that the company may not be chasing the family market so much as striving to further monetise its existing ...
GAME: Kinect ‘excites’ customers
Leading games retailer GAME has unsurprisingly welcomed Microsoft’s announcement that it is aiming high by giving the Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect a high-end RRP of £129.99 in the UK ...
MS: Hardcore will buy Kinect first
The traditional ‘hardcore’ userbase of the Xbox 360 will be amongst the first consumers heading to the High Street to buy the device, Xbox's worldwide product marketing manager Ryan Moore ...
