Flagship Studios No Longer Owns Hellgate: London
July 12, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, MMORPG, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, RPG
Flagship Studios is no longer the owner of Hellgate: London. The studio lost the IP to HanbitSoft. HanbitSoft’s reason of IP takeover:
HanbitSoft states that the reason it is pursuing this course of action is because “It is hard for us to accept Flagship Studios’ requests for continued support in capital and funding any longer and because Flagship was being difficult”, and because it co-owns a direct stake in the IP, it therefore “has a say in reviewing and determining any course of action to be taken with Hellgate: London.”
HanbitSoft is expected to take full control over the IP. HanbitSoft goes on to state that in doing so, it will be able to “properly manage and develop Hellgate: London into a good game with proper content”, with its own in-house team of developers.
Basically, Flagship did a miserable job and the korean developer took back the IP to fix the trainwreck RPG.
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.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition New Screenshots
May 2, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Screenshots
Capcom has released 17 new screenshots for Lost Planet: Colonies. Here are two to start you off:
Check out more here.
Midway CEO Departs
March 20, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Press Releases
Midway has announced that CEO David Zucker is leaving the company, to be replaced by Matthew Booty on an interim basis. This after Midway lost $97.4 million in profits last year.
New Mafia 2 Screenshots
March 7, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Screenshots
We’ve got 5 new high-resolution screenshots of Mafia 2! Mafia 2 is the sequel to 2002’s Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven and is being developed by 2K Czech. See the screens after the break.
LOST: Via Domus Released
March 4, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Press Releases, Release Dates, Screenshots
Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, in collaboration with ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios, announced that LOST: Via Domus is available on store shelves for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows-based PC. Based on the award-winning television series, LOST: Via Domus allows players to experience an untold adventure of “Lost” in an immersive, interactive world. The game is rated “T” for Teen and has an MSRP of $59.99 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and $29.99 for Windows.
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