Entries in 'cost' (42)
277 lost GAME shops could cost market £158m
The UK games market could be as much as £158m worse off due to the closure of 277 GAME stores.
Want every bit of Mass Effect 3's DLC? It'll cost you $870
BioWare fans looking for the complete Mass Effect 3 experience face an alarming outlay.
EA "probably" spent $0.5bn on Old Republic
We’ll never know exactly how much EA spent on bankrolling BioWare’s first MMO Star Wars: the Old Republic, but one analyst reckons the total figure could be close to half ...
XBL indie games games can now be bigger, cheaper
Microsoft can seemingly do no right when it comes to indie developers on Xbox Live, but a new set of policy changes may go some way toward appeasing the indie ...
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Could Vita games cost 40% more at retail?
We already know that games for the PlayStation Vita will cost less to download than they will at the shops.
Modern Warfare 3: Armed and dangerous
EA has waged a war of words with Activision – but is it really winning? Call of Duty showed no signs of weakness at its first franchise expo last week.
Ubisoft’s Online Pass named, priced
Starting with the release of Driver: San Francisco on September 2nd, Ubisoft is to introduce its own version of EA’s Online Pass.
Capcom: PSN outage could cost us millions
"As an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our ...
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EA pumping $80m in SWTOR?
The total amount of money EA has so far ploughed into BioWare's still delayed Star Wars: The Old Republic could be near to $100m, according to estimates from a leading ...
PSN downtime costs dev 'thousands'
The ongoing global shutdown of the PlayStation Network has left a UK studio with “absolutely no revenues” for a week.
Dev budgets have 'tripled' on 3DS and NGP
The arrival of two new handheld platforms will bring high-end mobile technologies to the market, but also a significant increase in project budgets, according to developers working in the field.
3DS dev costs comparable with Wii
The cost of making a 3D game for Nintendo’s 3DS is significantly higher than doing the same on either the DS or PSP, production studio Marvelous Entertainment has claimed.
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Old Republic 'will be great failure’
An anonymous blogger going under the name of EA Louse has lashed out at employers EA BioWare and predicted a tough time for future MMO release Star Wars: Old Republic ...
THQ reveals WWE DLC deal
As publishers continue to dabble with new ways of offering ‘added value’ to gamers through digital content, THQ has revealed a new model to accompany the release of WWE Smackdown ...
OnLive drops subscription fees
One of the more questionable aspects of OnLive’s business strategy has been dropped with confirmation that the cloud computing provider will no longer ask users to pay a monthly subscription.
$100 Premium XBL service predicted
Earlier this week Microsoft announced that it is to increase the price of some Xbox Live subscription packages – but Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter thinks the platform holder is ...
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3DS to cost under £200?
Though we won’t be finding out the retail price of the 3DS until September 29th – and for the UK price the wait may well be far longer – Nintendo ...
The cost of Blur’s poor sales
A closer look at last week’s NPD results for the North American video games market courtesy of Gamasutra has revealed that Activision’s brand new racing IP Blur sold just 31,000 ...
Kinect costs $150 to manufacture
Microsoft is paying around $150 in total manufacturing costs for each Kinect unit, Develop understands.
E3 2010: MS says 3D ‘too expensive’
Despite assurances that it is does indeed have a 3D strategy, Microsoft omitted any mention of the merging tech from its E3 press conference press conference. And now it ...
SWTOR breaks EA funding records
It’s one of the most bankable franchises in the world of entertainment, and such is EA’s faith in BioWare’s upcoming MMO Star Wars: the Old Republic that it has spent ...
Why Blu-ray and DLC don’t see eye to eye
Sony has told MCV that SCEE policy is the reason behind why many of the boxed expansion packs that get released on Xbox 360 and PC only get a PSN ...
First paid DLC for Bad Company 2
The first paid-for DLC for EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been revealed – and it’s called the Kit Upgrade DLC.
WoW pet making $2.5m an hour
The ‘Celestial Mount’ in-game item for Activision-Blizzard’s MMORPG-hit World of Warcraft caused such high demand on it’s first day of availability that the studio claim they had to scale down ...
MW2 Stimulus was ‘too cheap’
Activision’s decision to give its Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus DLC a premium price point of 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20) was met with outcry by much of the game’s fanbase – ...
