Square Enix, a company most well-known for its RPG franchises Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, may be looking to expand its horizons in game development, as it has announced that an agreement has been signed to use Epic Games’ Unreal… Read More »

Midway and Epic Games announced today that the upcoming FPS Unreal Tournament 2007 will be heading to the Xbox 360 alongside the PC and PS3 versions, and will appear under the title of Unreal Tournament 3. The release date for… Read More »

Although the popularity of Nintendo’s Wii has made huge leaps in terms of sales figures and has generated plenty of buzz within the game industry and general public, one game developer reportedly doesn’t see this as automatically translating into game… Read More »

In addition to the recently announced date for the European launch of the PS3, Australia will also join in on the debut when the console is released in March. In an interview with Australia’s Gamespot, Sony exec Michael Ephraim gave… Read More »

Microsoft has always had its eyes on the Japanese game market for the Xbox 360. While sales for the 360 haven’t been anywhere close to the numbers achieved in the United States and around the world, Microsoft may have seen… Read More »

The backwards compatibility issue, where PS2 games suffered from downgraded graphics quality when played on the PS3, has raised a response from Sony Corp in the form of a fix, which is available in the latest firmware release, 1.50. Last… Read More »

Irrational Games, developer behind the highly anticipated first person shooter BioShock, seems to have made a seemingly irrational decision, based on information posted on The Cult of Rapture, BioShock‘s community site. Website manager Elizabeth Tobey explained that BioShock would not… Read More »

European PS3 Launch Date Confirmed

Europeans will finally be able to get their hands on the PS3 starting on March 23, when an an expected shipment of 300,000 units will go on sale in the U.K., and another 700,000 units in the other European nations…. Read More »

Casual games developer MumboJumbo has announced the acquisition of Ritual Entertainment today, although financial terms weren’t disclosed as of the time of this writing. This acquisition marks one–if not the–most significant acquisition of a mainstream game development company by a… Read More »

The UK’s leading publisher, SCi Entertainment, released its third fiscal quarter financial results today, showing that the revenue generated in the past six months is expected to exceed 70 million Euros ($90 million)–a 40% increase over the 50 million Euros… Read More »