Entries in 'hardcore' (44)
3DS can make more ‘expert gamers’
High development costs and a software line-up that seems geared to the core games market – on the face of it the 3DS doesn’t seem to be picking up where ...
MS plays down Kinect’s hardcore appeal
Microsoft has offered up a very simple explanation for the lack of hardcore games currently set to support the upcoming Kinect motion camera – the device isn’t aimed at the ...
E3 2010: Kinect will get core games
With core game support for Move growing at a steady pace, the lack of traditional Xbox titles included in the Kinect launch line-up has stirred a few feathers. But Microsoft ...
Natal ‘isn’t for gaming community’
Despite previous assertions from Microsoft that it’s upcoming Xbox 360 peripheral Natal is very much for the hardcore gamer as well as the casual market, Michael Pachter has claimed that ...
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PS3 'to end hardcore stigma'
Sony’s PlayStation 3 will no longer be pigeonholed a hardcore-only console, according one of the first developers building a game for the system’s new Move motion controller.
Jon Torrens, designer ...
Rising Star puts faith in hardcore
Japanese games specialist Rising Star hopes to draw in the hardcore Wii gaming audience when No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle hits the console.
Nintendo: We’re not good at core games
In his most brazen statement on the subject to date, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted that the platform holder isn’t very good at making hardcore games – ...
THQ planning core digital push
The mounting pressure on retail has been turned up another notch with news that THQ is planning up to six download-only titles within the next 12 months, some of which ...
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Sony: Motion Control for hardcore too
Echoing similar assurances given by Microsoft last June, Sony has stated that whilst the mass-market implications for its upcoming Motion Controller are obvious, the device will also cater to the ...
Capcom: Resi Darkside Chronicles “a disappointment”
Capcom France’s Antoine Seux has declared Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles to be “a disappointment” after it failed to meet sales expectations.
THQ focuses on core market in 2010
THQ has signed the rights to a new Russian-made FPS – as it bids to grow its core gamer audience in the next 12 months.
Nintendo: We want to win over the Halo audience
After enjoying huge growth in the now blossoming casual market, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has said that PS3 and Xbox 360 owning core gamers are the company’s next ...
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Natal is for the ‘hardcore’ too
Those who fear that the motion-based casual games revolution that was E3 jeopardises the core games market can rest at ease – Microsoft has assured users that Natal will be ...
Nintendo insists casual is not taking over the market
Speaking to CasualGaming.biz as part of its Girl Gaming Month, Nintendo’s UK Wii product manager Rob Lowe has stated that the rise in popularity of casual software has not ...
Gazillion working on “six or seven” MMO games
Newly revealed MMO developer Gazillion has claimed that it is working on “six or seven” titles at the moment, and that its intention is to take the currently hardcore-centric MMO ...
Fable II named Telegraph’s best game of 2008
UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph this weekend published its extensive 50 Best Games of 2008 list, and Microsoft and Lionhead’s Fable II was the paper’s pick of the bunch for ...
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Dunaway: 2009 will be good for the Wii hardcore
With the mud hurled at the company by so-called ‘hardcore’ gamers in the wake of its now infamous E3 2008 conference still proving a little sticky, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway has ...
Miyamoto: Core gamer was not our E3 target
Shigeru Miyamoto, the development hero at the heart of Nintendo’s software output, has told MSNBC that his firm no longer sees E3 as the best way to target the core ...
The Sims 3 targets 'real' gamers
EA’s The Sims Studio is looking to lure traditional gamers to the next installment in the franchise, The Sims 3, with more ‘goal-orientated’ gameplay.
