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We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and the leading campaigns for the week ending October 16th year-on-year. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Further week-on-week growth (62 per cent) saw games and consoles ads produce 732 individual TVRs. …
Read More »Blizzard: ‘Diablo III feels better with 360 controller’
Highly anticipated PC RPG Diablo III plays even better” with an Xbox 360 controller, says the game’s director. Jay Wilson told PC Gamer about the challenges Blizzard faces of working on its first console port, as well as its advantages. One of the reasons why we’re exploring the idea of …
Read More »Consoles, unite! Valve and Blizzard want online harmony
Two of the world’s most influential PC games studios want Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to break down the barricades to their consoles’ online services. Gabe Newell and Frank Pearce, the co-founders of Valve Software and Blizzard Entertainment, both believe that online unification between consoles would be a progressive step for …
Read More »Platform holders blocked Runescape cross-console play
Speaking at the recent Edinburgh Interactive conference, Gerhard said Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo were each opposed to the idea of Runescape players interacting across rival platforms. Some console owners wanted us to charge five Euros for Runescape. What? It would be crazy to charge for Runescape on consoles,” he began. …
Read More »Blizzard assembling console Diablo III team
GAMESCOM: World of Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has said that it is in the process of preparing to make a console port of upcoming PC dungeon crawler Diablo III. Eurogamer reports that lead designer Josh Mosqueira told a Gamescom audience that the studio is very, very serious about bringing …
Read More »THQ’s admiration for EA’s console strategy
Fewer, bigger, better. That seems to be an increasingly common trend amongst traditional console games publishers, and THQ’s executive VP of core games Danny Bilson is all for it. That’s all we can really do,” he told VG247. It’s not just Activision or us; look at what EA’s doing on …
Read More »Mobilising Console
Develop's newest columnist Will Luton says hello! Oh, and also, mobiles will replace consoles
Read More »A gaming Holodeck for your home? Its on the way, says Rare
Total immersion in a believable and completely customisable digital world. The vision offered by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Holodeck represents the ultimate gaming nirvana, and Rare boss Scott Henson says that gaming is heading down that path”. I’m not going to give you the exact date you’re going to …
Read More »Are we losing the generation game?
A nation of children break up for school holidays next week. And they are breaking away from games, too. Disney and THQ warn that retailers and publishers won’t attract the next generation of gamers. Kids are switching off from consoles in favour of mobile, online and social games. For younger …
Read More »Hawkins blames software licensing for creativity decline
Long-term industry face and EA founder Trip Hawkins has revisited the two-decade old debate about platform holder software licensing, blaming it for the death of creativity in the modern market. I think we actually had our golden age when game development was using floppy disks and it was an open …
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