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CallofDuty.com has gone live with a countdown pointing to a World Reveal” on May 1st. This, of course, will be the first official details of the next Call of Duty game, due out more likely than not this November. All we know for certain is that the world-first glimpse of …
Read More »Was there a secret next-gen Xbox event yesterday?
The existence of an Xbox 720 developer event appears to have been leaked through a harmless Tweet by a Crytek developer claiming to be on location. Sean Tracy, a technical designer for Crytek, earlier tweeted: Enjoying the Durango developers summit in London. So far, great swag and interesting talks”. He …
Read More »Did Sony hold out about PSN outage?
The Japanese government has reportedly accused Sony of deliberately keeping quiet about the attack on its PlayStation Network. Sony has always said that the six day gap between the attack on PSN and its first official announcement was due to the need to "forensically" analyse exactly what has happened. However, …
Read More »NPD freezes out media
US sales tracker NPD has issued a note to analyst Michael Pachter requesting that he stops handing out NPD data to media outlets. In October of last year the company announced that it was to change the way in which it publishes its monthly video game sales data, omitting most …
Read More »E3 2010: Microsoft to steal the show?
After last year’s string of pre-E3 leaks left more or less no surprises for the actual platform holder conferences, there’s an increasing belief that Microsoft has something big up its sleeve for tomorrow’s official E3 press briefing. With Nintendo set to unveil the said-to-be impressive 3DS at its press briefing …
Read More »Sega shuts San Francisco dev
Sega has closed its San Francisco games development studio. The outfit, previously known as Secret Level and acquired in 2006, winds down following the completion of the tie-in game for Iron Man 2. Previously the studio had worked on the first Iron Man title and the failed attempt to revamp …
Read More »THQ holds off $40m project for Natal
Publishing giant THQ has a Natal game in the pipeline that could cost as much as $40 million to make – yet the company is hedging its bets due to the unknown popularity of the device. THQ VP of core games, Danny Bilson, said that Natal had lent the company …
Read More »Funcom revenues slump
Age of Conan publisher Funcom has reported a bad set of financials for its fiscal Q3, with revenues falling 68.5 per cent year-on-year to reach $5.7m. In total Funcom’s losses hit $9.6m for the period. In Q3 last year it recorded a profit of $3.3m. The drops were blamed on …
Read More »LucasArts dates Monkey Island
Devoted followers of LucasArts’ classic point-and-click series Monkey Island now have a new date to mark in their diaries – July 15th will see the release of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Xbox Live Arcade. The re-make of the 1990 title boasts updated hi-def graphics, a re-mastered …
Read More »Secret Duke Nukem game in development?
Publisher Take-Two has signed an agreement with a ‘well known’ studio to develop an unannounced Duke Nukem game, according to a GamePolitics report, despite the fate of the current Forever project suspended in legal flux. Court documents filed last week by former Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms – in …
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