Tag Archives: 2008

Following SCEE president’s David Reeves upbeat forecast of the year ahead for PlayStation , fellow executives have praised the achievements of the business in the last 12 months and predicted a bumper year ahead for PS3. SCEA vice president Ian Jackson stated: We’ve had a solid holiday season and have …

Ahead of the release of its official figures next week, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain is predicting a significant decline in the value of the Japanese video games market in 2008. Enterbrain states that in 2007 the market was worth YEN 687.95 billion, whereas it expects the 2008 figure to be around …

With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q3 the games industry continued to buck the worsening economic climate, Microsoft ‘fessed up to its RROD problems, Square Enix shocked the world with big Final Fantasy …

With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q2 we saw PEGI and the BBFC go to war, more delays to PS3 Home, the blockbuster release of GTA IV, a tremor in the Force at …

With 2008 drawing to a close, MCV looks back at the news that defined the last 12 months in the games industry. In Q1 we saw the demise of HD-DVD, Gordon Brown throw a menacing glare at gaming, trouble at SCi, confident predictions from Woolworths, high-profile departures and hires at …

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 standout titles over the last 12 months. The hardcore centric list leads with two of the year’s biggest RPGs – …

It was the year casual games went from the worst kept multi-million dollar secret in the games business to its potential saviour. Favoured with big investments from venture capitalists and growing interest from the likes of EA, Microsoft, Jagex, Apple and latterly Sega, casual games execs have walked with a …

US news journal Time has listed its top ten picks for the games of note in 2008 – and it’s Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV that claims the top spot. Time said of the game: It’s ironic that GTA became a football in the debate over sex and violence in …

The clock is ticking on Sony’s recurrent pledge to release an open beta for its PS3 social network Home by the end of the year – and a report in yesterday’s issue of The Sunday Times suggests that December 17th may be the day. The piece reads: To try Home, …

Leading free-to-play browser based MMO Runescape has remarkably been named as the fifth most searched term on global search engine giant Yahoo, beating some top-draw competition in the process. To read the complete top ten, and hear what Yahoo had to say about Runescape, click here to head over to …