While EA has yet to make a formal announcement regarding the highly-anticipated next chapter in the Battlefield franchise, the reveal of the Limited Edition bundle for the company’s October-due Medal of Honor provides initial hints regarding Battlefield 3, including the game’s beta.
So far, the extras revealed by EA as part of the Medal of Honor [...]
Sega’s parent company, Sega Sammy Holdings, reported a positive quarter of earnings mostly on account of revenues from its pachinko business. On the video games front (in the Consumer Business unit), sales of Alpha Protocol and Iron Man 2 in North America and Europe disappointed.
Net revenues for the company were at 91.3 billion yen ($1 [...]
StarCraft 2 — a real time strategy game 12 years in the making — debuted this week to both rave and rant reviews. Say what you will about business politics and LAN gameplay; John Davison and Tae Kim are still avoiding online multiplayer for a key reason.
Host: AJ Glasser
Audio: StarCraft 2 launch commercial
Discussion Group: AJ [...]
This week, we’ve got StarCraft prizes for all levels of Zerg-killers. Whether want to get StarCraft II itself, some cool bonus material, or older games in the RTS series, we’ve got a contest for you. Read on to find out what you can win, and where.
Let’s start with the highly-anticipated game itself. GamePro’s Twitter followers [...]
Don Bluth’s famous animated arcade games have seen their fair share of individual ports, but Destineer is bringing his entire collection to a console in a single game for the first time, packaging Dragon’s Lair 1, Dragon’s Lair 2, and Space Ace to the Wii with the Dragon’s Lair trilogy.
Depending on your official count, Dragon’s [...]
Game developer Richard “Lord British” Garriott won a $28 million lawsuit against former employer NCSoft today for breach of contract. The Korean-based software company fired him while he was in space.
No, seriously — Garriott took a leave of absence from NCSoft (which bought Garriott’s company, Destination Games, in 2001) during the year of 2008 to [...]
It seems like every publisher with a stockholder decided to report their profits (or lack thereof) today. Besides that, we had the departure of a long-standing LucasArts developer and the arrival of zombie Michael Jackson’s understudy. Even with all of that craziness, a few stories remain, and they have a home here in today’s daily [...]
Yesterday’s rumors that the Metalocalypse game collaboration between Konami and Cartoon Network (owner of Adult Swim) were confirmed today by a Cartoon Network representative. Instead of making The Dethgame, the two companies will instead focus on a Ben 10 Alien Force: The Rise of Hex game.
The official statement from CN reads — “Cartoon Network Enterprises [...]
While the company made news this week for the legal wrangling from the estate of Michael Jackson surrounding a lookalike character from Plants vs Zombies, Popcap is putting that episode behind them, introducing a new edition of the game as well as a replacement for the offending undead.
Shown at right is Plants vs Zombie’s new [...]
IGN reports that Haden Blackman — executive producer and writer on The Force Unleashed 2 — has left LucasArts after 13 years at the company. Specifics aren’t clear, but LucasArts says development on FU2 won’t be affected.
Blackman’s statement to IGN reads:
“I’ve had a fantastic time working with the team at Lucasfilm and am really [...]
