In an interview with IGN , Peter Moore has revealed that new boxing title Facebreaker is to be the first of many more titles from EA Sports which will be aimed at the casual gamer. There will be more announcements that will be, if you will, licensed intellectual property that …
Read More »Fancy a new job in games? MCV can help
January is out of the way and the industry’s employees are back in the swing of things. But having traversed the post-Christmas blues, are you tempted to take a job elsewhere? If you’re after a change of environment, more money or new colleagues, Mcvuk.com is the destination you need. Whenever …
Read More »DS to offer public non-gaming services by summer
Nintendo will provide non-gaming public services via Wi-Fi to DS owners by summer this year. According to CEO Satoru Iwata, consumers will be able to download information from public Wi-Fi hotspots. It is yet to be seen how advertisers will be able to utilise the project – but special DS-only …
Read More »Iwata: Were not interested in virtual worlds
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has shot down any idea that Nintendo will follow Sony and create a virtual ‘social’ world for its consoles. Iwata asserted that a PS3 Home-style service would risk compromising the platform holder’s desire to get ‘five to 95-year olds’ engrossed in their content. Speaking to Gamespot, …
Read More »Virtual Console hits 10m downloads
Nintendo’s retro games download service for Wii Virtual Console has provided over 10 million downloads in its first year. Speaking to Gamespot, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed: Virtual Console saw over ten million downloads by the end of last December. That’s the total number of titles people paid to download. …
Read More »EA opens huge Madrid testing centre
Electronic Arts, has opened a European test centre in Madrid, which will employ between 200 and 400 people from 20 European countries. According to Sky News, Madrid was chosen over 27 other cities, including London, Prague and Warsaw, because of its geographical location and popularity as a travel destination. "We …
Read More »Konami sees double-digit growth
Konami has announced that group operating income for the nine months leading to December has leapt 20.4 per cent over the previous year. Total sales rose 8.1 per cent in the first fiscal three quarters to 229,730 million Yen, whereas operating income was up to 32,154 million yen. The company …
Read More »Capcom forecasts 15 per cent full-year profit jump
Resident Evil publisher Capcom has raised its full-year revenue and operating profit forecasts, citing better-than-expected sales of game software. The Japanese firm said in a statement that operating profit will probably rise 20 percent to 11.5 billion Yen ($108 million).That represents a 15 percent increase from its previous forecast of …
Read More »Q3 THQ sales up, WWE ships 5m
For the third quarter of fiscal 2008, THQ reported net sales of $509.6 million, up from $475.7 million for the same period a year ago. The publisher added that the sales spike was driven by strong performance of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008, Cars: Mater-National and MX vs. ATV Untamed. …
Read More »Iwata: ‘Third party devs are not struggling on Wii’
Nintendo president says other studios are reaping the benefits of Wii sales and has the figures to prove it
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