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New uDraw games will arrive every 60 to 90 days, complete with marketing support, says THQ. The next campaign takes place around Easter for the launch of SpongeBob SquigglePants. uDraw made a dramatic entrance into the Chart-Track Top Ten last week, having missed out on the Top 40 the week …
Read More »New Katamari game on the way?
Publisher Namco Bandai could be readying a new instalment in the colourful Katamari series, if two new trademark registrations are to be believed. Siliconera reports that the company has registered both Katamari Amore and Katamari Amore Rolling Whopper. The most recent release in the series was 2009 PS3-exclusive Katamari Forever. …
Read More »Xbox successor in 2015?
A somewhat ambiguous posting on a web portfolio of a designer currently working for Microsoft has got tongues wagging about a potential 2015 launch date for the next Xbox console. Posted by Ben Peterson, who was recently recruited to work at Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, the art (spotted by ZDNet) …
Read More »Blizzard’s new IP is next-gen MMO
Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that its still unofficial and unnamed ‘next generation MMO’ will be based around completely original IP. He also discussed ‘Project Titan’, and confirmed that the game would be based around completely original IP. Internally we think of that as a next generation MMO," …
Read More »It starts here: Next Xbox talk begins
Though we won’t know anything concrete for a long, long time to come, the very first roll of the dice on what will eventually become the next generation of console hardware seems to have been made.Eurogamer reports that three Microsoft job listings on LinkedIn point to the very early stages …
Read More »New recruiter for games industry
Recruitment agency Austin Banks has branched out into the games industry. The Doncaster-based firm is currently restructuring its business, and a focus on video games will be crucial to the company’s future. We are moving away from local, support-level recruitment and into national, executive-level recruitment within clearly defined niches – …
Read More »Music just the start for Harmonix
As the creator of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Dance Central, there’s no studio in the world with the same music game heritage as Harmonix. But its ambitions don’t end with the music genre. "For the first time, I see Harmonix potentially evolving past exclusively focusing on music games," CEO …
Read More »New EA studio working on C&C
In an announcement now pulled from the official website, it looks as if EA is on the verge of revealing both a new wholly owned developer and a brand new instalment in the Command &Conquer series. Rock Paper Shotgun says that a total revamp of the franchise’s website announced both …
Read More »Super Mario All-Stars lives on
As was rumoured last month, Nintendo of America has confirmed that it will produce more copies of last year’s Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition for the Wii. Kotaku reports that the company has said it will produce a "final run" of the game, with the next shipment due to arrive …
Read More »GAME: Pre-owned grows the new market
The market for new triple-A titles would be diminished were it not for the pre-owned sector, GAME Group CEO Ian Shepherd has claimed. "The existence of pre-owned makes the new market bigger," he said at today’s strategy briefing. "It makes it more affordable, reduces the total cost of ownership. However, …
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