Connect is dead. Long live whatever this thing is gonna be called! The Financial Times (registration required) is reporting that Sony’s set to hop back into the ring with Apple’s 800 lb. gorilla iTunes service for a second round after its Connect service came back in a body bag. Apparently, the new service will ask [...]
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As it turns out, quite a few people are fans of this whole “not having to pay a subscription fee” thing. Who’da guessed? Speaking with Joystiq, an NCSoft rep pegged Guild Wars’ current sales total at over 6.5 million, which, using our impressive knowledge of big numbers, conclusively proves that the game’s sold – prepare [...]
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UK-based studio Team 17 has said it’s planning to increase the number of downloadable games it produces, and forgo boxed products in the future. Speaking with MCV, Team 17 co-founder Martyn Brown said the firm has “no ambitions to return to retail publishing”. “Digital distribution has allowed easy and direct access to the game for [...]
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Konami has confirmed its Tokyo Game Show line-up, which runs from September 16-19. Metal Gear Solid: Rising will be there. Rest easy, darlings. Here’s the games on-hand in full, although Konami didn’t note which would or wouldn’t be playable: Konami titles Otomedius Excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Adrenaline Misfits Zack & Ombra: The Phantom Amusement [...]
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Industry analyst Michael Pachter has weighed in the Xbox Live subscription increase, and predicts Microsoft will offer a $100 Platinum service in the future. Pachter – who correctly predicted the $10 price increase last year – said the new price point will allow Microsoft to reinvest these earnings back into the service in order to [...]
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Jeremy Dunham, senior community manager for Zipper Interactive, has announced over on the official MAG blog that extra character slots are now available. As promised last month, starting today, those who log into MAG see two additional slots below their original default character. Here’s the rundown: For $0.99 per added slot, players can select the [...]
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According to a post over on the Blizzard forums, World of Warcraft will no longer support older PowerPC Macs once Cataclysm is released. Per a notice posted by Jessicalu in the Mac support forums, the patch is due to be released before the expansion: A little forewarning to those of you that play World of [...]
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Final Fantasy XII executive producer Akitoshi Kawazu has claimed the problem facing the Japanese game market today is a lack of “passion” due to overwhelming development costs and market trends. Speaking in a interview with Nintendo Power magazine, Kawazu feels it takes more than one person on a team to “keep up with all the [...]
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