The recently-released stunt-fueled racer will be making another stop later this year, as Disney Interactive Studios revealed plans for a PlayStation Portable version of the game this holiday season. Read on for further details.
While Disney’s highly-regarded racer didn’t end up in the winner’s circle on the sales charts, the publisher is giving Split/Second another run [...]
A study done by The Guildhall at SMU and EEDAR in which players read reviews of a game before playing it revealed that the subjects were more likely to buy the game after playing if they had read highly-rated reviews.
The game used in the study was Popcap Games’ downloadable strategy game Plants vs. Zombies. Over [...]
Financial news source Bloomberg analyzes Xbox Live in an article looking at how much revenue the service generated for Microsoft last year. Sure, we all knew (or could at least guess) it did pretty well — but here’s just how well, according to analysts and officials.
1) Xbox Live “probably” broke $1 billion in revenue
While [...]
Lotte Vermeulen, a communications student at Ghent University in Belgium, surveyed 983 gamers to find out what about video games appeals to girls. Her conclusions seem wedged between sexism and egalitarianism.
On the one hand, Vermeulen concludes that women are turned off by games that are “too complicated” and that “women tend to give up when [...]
Back from a long weekend freckled with fireworks and GamePro birthdays, we find a somewhat sluggish news day waiting for us. Some holiday sales and promotions are still on and one or two announcements crossed the wires. Now here’s the stuff we didn’t post:
07/06 — Your FrontierVille addiction causes cake
AJ: Would you drink this?
Japan’s Move [...]
The schedule and prices for this year’s Xbox Live ‘Summer of Arcade’ titles have been revealed, as well as a pair of deals that will benefit downloadable game fans of varying dedication. Read on for the full details.
Starting just days after next week’s ‘Destination Arcade’ navigation update, the ‘Summer of Arcade’ will run for five [...]
Hot Toys posted a batch of photos to the Facebook account today detailing their 1/6th scale Ezio Collectible Figure. The item comes with a stand, four interchangeable hands (two gloved, two bare), six throwing knives, two hidden daggers, one short sword, one long sword, and something that looks like a hat.
Take a look:
Seriously, what IS [...]
The geniuses at Dolby have been perfecting the way we listen to audio for a long time now, and they’ve recently set their sights on the PC market with their PC Entertainment Experience initiative. This suite of “sophisticated technologies” aims to bring home theater quality audio to the laptop level, and one lucky GamePro reader [...]
Microsoft has cleared up speculation over Kinect’s ability to detect seated players by confirming that the motion sensing camera is capable of doing so.
"Kinect can be used while sitting when an experience is developed with sitting in mind," a spokesperson told Joystiq.
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Nintendo has reported a jump in UK DSi sales since the handheld’s trade price was lowered last month.
“Since the adjustment in trade price has been passed on to consumers, each of the previous three weeks have seen DSi sales increase by over 40 per cent week-on-week,” Nintendo’s head of communications, Rob Saunders, told MCV.
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