Over the last decade, the Worms franchise has expanded beyond its PC and 2D roots to include portable, console, and 3D iterations. For the next chapter of the franchise, however, the creators at Team17 are bringing the annelids back to the PC in their original form with Worms Reloaded.
Due out on August 26, Worms Reloaded [...]
Thanks to brisk sales on Apple’s iPhone and iPad platforms, Gameloft posted earnings of over $40 million during the last quarter, an increase of 15% in profit from the same time period in 2009. What’s more, the company expects to continue the same growth for the second half of the fiscal year.
After earning $43 million [...]
Nintendo posted 188,646 million yen ($2.2 billion USD) in net sales this quarter, down 25 percent from the same quarter last year. Operating income suffered a 42 percent drop to 23,343 million yen ($267 million USD). Wii sales aren’t to blame.
Rather, the numbers reveal a dip in Nintendo DS sales for the quarter — which [...]
Sony posted decent numbers in its general earnings call today, but the part gamers care about is the Networked Products and Services division where the PlayStation stuff lives. Thankfully, those numbers were decent, too.
The entire NPS unit posted a sales and operating revenue of 325.9 billion yen ($3.7 billion USD), up 32.4 percent over the [...]
Capcom reported another quarter of sluggish sales today, down 2.4 percent in net sales compared to the same quarter last year (from 19,497 million yen to 19,037 million — a loss of $6 million USD).
Capcom chalks to tough quarter up to Lost Planet 2’s struggle “to grow.” Capcom also acknowledges that its games released during [...]
Asian technology company Softbank — a major investor in Ustream among other companies — plugged $150 million into social game developer Zynga this week to create Zynga Japan. HarajukuVille, anyone?
The joint venture locates a new Zynga studio in Tokyo, Japan and lets the company leverage Softbank’s mobile and web tech to create new social games [...]
We’re hardly two days out from the launch of StarCraft 2 and one-star users reviews are flooding the internet alongside five-star (and numerical equivalent) professional reviews. Here are the top three complaints making the rounds.
1) Lack of an offline mode — “No LAN support!”
Why it’s an issue: Multiplayer PC gaming was defined by local area [...]
No one news topic dominated the day, but the Playlogic bankruptcy spent a long time doing the rounds in our news feed. Not a whole lot else happened and we’re all just itching to get to August when Irrational Games plans to unveil its mystery project. Here’s what we didn’t news:
07/28 — Fairytale Bankrupt
Tales of [...]
The PlayStation Move may be releasing this year, but the opportunity to experience motion-controlled war combat won’t be happening until 2011, as Zipper has pushed the game to next year to provide the best game possible. Meanwhile, Hudson shifted the release of light-based platformer Lost in Shadow from the Fall to January 2, 2011.
In a [...]
Nexon America has reported second quarter revenues up 26 per cent year-over-year.
The free-to-play specialist behind MapleStory told VentureBeat that June sales alone were up 36 per cent from a year earlier, although it doesn’t disclose actual financial figures.
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