Electronic Arts to cut jobs
Electronic Arts has come out with their latest revenue report and the numbers are not good.
The company has announced that they are going to cut some jobs.
EA has posted a wider quarterly loss and they are now going to cut around 1500 jobs in their global operations.
They [...]
Rage unlikely to support dedicated servers
John Carmack has admitted that they are unlikely to provide support for dedicated servers in their upcoming videogame title Rage.
Modern Warfare 2 is already a high profile game which has a similar limitation.
Carmack said: “It’s not cast in stone yet, but at this point no, we [...]
Need For Speed franchise: 100 million copies sold!
Electronic Arts has announced that they have sold more than 100 million copies of the games from their Need For Speed franchise.
The company is celebrating this achievement by offering EA Store discount codes for 25% off any Need For Speed title.
To win these discount [...]
Shanda Games raise USD 1 billion through IPO
China based videogame company Shanda Games is making headlines.
The company has managed to raise around 1 billion dollar through their initial public offering.
Shanda however managed to meet this target by offering more shares than analysts had expected.
The company is known for publishing games like The Legend of [...]
Starcraft 2 to feature DRM. Would require a Battle.net account.
Blizzard has been one of the few popular videogame developers who have avoided implementing DRM to prevent piracy.
The company instead focuses on preventing games with pirated versions to connect to their online servers.
They are now going to change that stance and are now likely to [...]
THQ acquires San Diego studios of Midway Games
Midway Games has announced that they are selling their San Diego based studio assets to THQ.
The deal is worth around USD 200,000.
Midway however clarified that the deal does not include the TNA wrestling game which was developed at this studio.
This studio has around 100 employees. [...]
Splinter Cell: Conviction would come next year
Splinter Cell: Conviction has been delayed and it is now likely to arrive next year.
The company said in a statement: “We are disappointed that we have to postpone the release of several major games but we consider that this choice is the best one in the long-term interests of [...]
Howard Stringer: Playstation 3 Price Cut Unlikely
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has once again hinted that there are no price cuts planned for their Playstation 3 gaming console.
He said in a statement that the company would lose money on the console if they cut the price.
He was referring to the recent statement by Robert [...]
LucasArts hints about a new game on Twitter
LucasArts has used Twitter to reveal that they are set to announce a new videogame.
The sad news however is that this new title is likely to based on one of their earlier titles.
The two messages posted on the Twitter service stated:
Amazing news coming Monday! Super excited! You have [...]
StarCraft II would not feature LAN game play
Blizzard has announced that they are removing LAN game play support from their upcoming videogame title StarCraft II.
StarCraft II is a real time strategy game designed for the Windows platform.
The company said that they decided to remove the LAN support from this game to combat [...]
