EA Done With Shitfest Licensed Games
August 5, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits
At last, EA released how their slaughtered licensed games were a waste of everyone’s time. EA’s CEO himself has admitted that EA will now stop with their perpetual line-up of “crappy” licensed titles.
John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts: I think what redeems our industry is quality, and I think we take a step back every time we take a license and exploit it with a crappy game. That’s not what we’re about.
About damn time.
Randy Pitchford Talks, Brags about Xbox Live Gamerscore
June 15, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits
Randy Pitchford is quickly becoming one of the more annoying personalities in video gaming industry, Following CliffyB and Peter Molyneux. Gamasutra has a long 10 page interview (cheap way to get page views….) with Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Software. Here’s a snip:
Burnout is a problem, and it can happen to anybody. Even in our studio, we’ve crunched. We care a lot about the results. Sometimes there’s the reality of, “Wow, we’re landing and we really want to make this better,” and we’re all working really hard to do that.
And sometimes, it’s really interesting how people are. We’re not saving the world. We’re making video games. But we tend to take a lot of pressure on ourselves, because we all want to do a good job. For some people, that’s a real problem, so things like burnout and disillusionment can happen.
It’s important that we try and remember why we’re doing it, and get back to playing games. Play the games and try to find ways that we can enjoy the process of making them.
Dreamlords - The Reawakening Coming June 18th
June 12, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Downloads, Full Client, Genre, MMORPG, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases, RPG
Swedish Developer, Lockpick Entertainment’s MMORTS will be hitting interweb on June 18th.
Press Release:
The waiting is coming to an end and after the physical move of the servers earlier this week the team is ready to release their love child together with the community.
“We’re really happy to release The Reawakening now and I know that it is highly anticipated from the Dreamlords community. Drawing on experience from the development of our previous game Dreamlords but also through feedback and suggestions from our much devoted community, I’m convinced we’ve created the game we initially set out to produce last fall”, said David Rosén CEO and Executive Producer. “The Reawakening is in every perspective a game by gamers – for gamers and now I can only hope the players will have as much fun playing it as we’ve had developing it.” Read more
Funcom ties up with PayByCash
May 27, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Genre, MMORPG, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases, RPG
In order to gobble up as many subscribers as possible, Age of Conan developer Funcom has tied up with PayByCash service. The service offers users 70 non-CC payment methods.
PayByCash, a division of Internet Payment Solutions, Inc., will provide non-credit card payment services for Funcom’s much anticipated, award winning Age of Conan massively multiplayer online game for PC. With the support of PayByCash, Funcom can offer Age of Conan subscribers throughout the world access to premium content through more than 70 payment methods not requiring a credit card.
Doom 4 Announced!
May 7, 2008 by Raj
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We all knew it was coming and here it is! id Software has officially announced Doom 4. The next chapter in Doom franchise. id Software is currently hiring applicants to work on the title.
Production has begun on DOOM 4™, the next journey into the legendary DOOM universe. We are expanding our internal team and are currently hiring to work on this highly anticipated title.
“DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth,” said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software. “It’s critical for id Software to have the best creative minds in-house to develop games that meet the standards synonymous with our titles.”
The DOOM franchise is one of the most recognizable and important in gaming history, having been named “one of the ten most influential games of the decade” by PC Gamer and “the #1 game of all time” by GameSpy. DOOM 4 will join the award-winning series which has consistently topped sales charts throughout the world.
We are looking for talented, ambitious and passionate individuals eager to join our accomplished team of developers working on the industry’s most innovative and anticipated games. For a complete listing of available positions, visit our id Careers page. Resumes can be submitted via email to jobs@idsoftware.com. All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
Unreal Tournament 3: 40million pirates attempted to play online
May 3, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Interview, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Piracy
Here’s something interesting: According to Mark Rein, CEO of Epic Games, 40million pirates have tried to play UT3 online using an invalid key.
If those 40 million players actually paid the full price, it would have been nearly $2 billion more in Epic’s pocket book. That is more than the quarterly sales results from Nvidia or AMD. To add another perspective, the government lost out as well, because no sales tax is earned on pirated copies.
Whether this number is actual or made-up just to spark interest? (due to poor sales) We’d reckon it’s the latter one. Piracy is too easy of a escapegoat nowadays.Update: Mark Rein confirmed he never said anything about the 40mil number. Rein has no idea how TGDaily got this info.
Infogrames Acquires Atari
May 1, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Miscellaneous, Newsbits
In March, Infogrames sent Atari a letter expressing they wanted to buy the remaining stocks of the company, after that, Atari got serious on the offer and hired a financial advisor to evalutate the offer. Now it’s become official; Infogrames has acquired Atari Inc. for $11million dollars. Here’s what the CEO of Infogrames had to say:
Bringing Atari US and Infogrames businesses together will enable us to create a simplified global structure for our business as we seek to re-build a well-managed, cohesive and financially disciplined company.
by GamesIndustry.biz
Crytek going multi-platform due to rampant Piracy
April 29, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Piracy
In an interview with PCPlay Magazine, CEO of Crytek; Cevat Yerli has revealed that they longer will remain PC exclusive. The rampant piracy of Crysis and the high-development costs have forced the german developer to this decision. Full quote below:
Cevat Yerli: We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.
Ubisoft to Hire 900 in 12 months
Polish up your resumes and make good with the ex-boss as Ubisoft plans to hire 900 employees over the next 12-months. As of March 31st 2008, Ubisoft has 3,600 employees, but Ubisoft wants that headcount to be expanded by 4,500 by the end of their fiscal year.
“Five hundred will go to the new studios, but there will also be 400 coming into the established studios,” said CEO Yves Guillemot.
Warhammer MMO Still Far Far Away
April 8, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Interview, Newsbits
During an interview with Yahoo biz, Brian Farrel, CEO of THQ had a handful things to say. But perhaps the most notable one was the comment regarding Warhammer MMO;
THQ also has ambitions on the massively multiplayer game market, planning to use the Warhammer 40,000 license to launch a massively multiplayer online game, which is “probably still a couple of years out” according to Farrell Read more
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