FIFA boss man David Rutter has said there are no plans to incorporate Kinect or Move support into his game any time soon, as his team has yet to find a compelling reason to offer it. Rutter said: "We're not supporting it within FIFA 11. I'm a big fan of pushing gameplay and there are some cool...
So although the video game industry can do nothing to match the world record crushing juggernaut that is 1500 Irish people on space hoppers, it is important to note that some records were given out during last week’s E3 industry scrum. Microsoft executives were handed the record for the Best-selling High-Definition Video Game Console for XBOX 360, for 40 million units as of March 31, 2010.
If you were on the internet yesterday, and let’s face it: It was only a repeat of Come Dine With Me so you probably were, you’ll know about the amazing Mortal Kombat...thing. Everyone seemed unsure if it was a game trailer, a movie trailer, a fan movie (made by some sort of mythically rich Mortal Kombat superfan...like Big Boi maybe) or a documentary about a real competition that was going to be on tv (that could have been just me…oh well).
Xbox is offering football fans the chance to compete against sporting heroes Gary Pallister, Marcel Desailly and Quinton Fortune in an online gaming event at Wembley on Friday 4 June to help raise awareness of 1Goal, which seizes on the power of football to ensure that education is provided for every child in the world.The “Game With Fame” event will see members of Xbox’s online gaming...
Alright, so if you know the F.E.A.R games, you’ll know how slim the line is that they walk between “oh this is pretty cool” and “this is embarrassingly naff and I will now weep for the dignity of all involved”. The new trailers reveal that, in the promotional department anyway, F3AR has picked one side and is heading towards it full bore. And yeah, it’s the second one.
Although there is a huge market for games centred on genitalia (probably, I don't know for certain, honest) we don't tend to give the games much coverage. Actually I'm just going to stop making tenuous puns like that now before it gets out of hand. We were, however, totally psyched to see how Zombie Cow's newest offering Privates turned out. Privates is a twin-stick shoot 'em-up in which players control...
Microsoft have vowed to carry out a full investigation into working conditions in a Chinese factory responsble for producing Xbox 360 controllers, cameras and mice. The promise comes after the National Labor Committee published a report on working conditions at the KYE factory in Dongguan. About 30 percent of the factory's output are Microsoft products. The report states workers as young as 14 are forced to work up to 15 hour shifts for less than minimum wage.
Two rumours have sprung up this afternoon which are quite exciting. Firstly, Kotaku have reported that cult favourite Demon's Souls may finally be coming to Europe. The game was originally planned for release only in Japan, as developers From Software believed the game would be unpopular in Western markets. Atlus didn't think so, and agreed to disribute the game in America. It sold much better than From Software expected, shifting over 250,000 copies.
While most of the focus on James Cameron’s Avatar movie and Ubisoft’s games has been on the groundbreaking 3D technology, there’s been a lot of innovative work done in the sound department, as well. Chance Thomas, the composer of James Cameron’s Avatar game, took some time away from the recording studio to talk about the creative process that went into filling the 5.1 surround sound experience that Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC gamers will hear starting December 1.
Analysis from NPD analyst, Anita Frazier, is below.Overall "The industry declined 7.6% versus last November, but still produced enough revenue to make this month the second-best November in industry history. YTD the industry is still up 7% over 2007. I think we all have to realize the incredible year that was 2008." "Based on seasonality the industry looks like it will reach $20B for the year, which means December would have to be up over last year by 11%.