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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Today's Top Stories

Dyack: I'm not stepping down

The Silicon Knights president has said that news on the Internet that he was thinking of quitting his role came as a "surprise."
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Posted May 15, 2008 3:48 pm GMT 1 Comment

MMOGs make profits for NCsoft

The Korean developer posts $7.7 million profit for first quarter, credits Lineage and Guild Wars for 16 percent year-on-year rise.
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Posted May 15, 2008 2:39 pm GMT 5 Comments

Nintendo loses controller case

Judgment reached in Anascape trial finds the Mario Factory did infringe on a patents, $21 million fine levied.
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Posted May 15, 2008 11:40 am GMT 51 Comments

Second WOW expansion 'scheduled' for '08

Blizzard parent Vivendi is planning to ship Wrath of the Lich King in "second half" of the current year; Blizzard revs near $100 million per month.
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Posted May 15, 2008 1:08 am GMT 74 Comments

MS: 360 first to reach 10 million in US

Microsoft stats dump touts worldwide figures of 19 million systems sold, 12 million Xbox Live members.
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Posted May 14, 2008 11:33 pm GMT 264 Comments

WOW-less Q1 pulls Vivendi Games down 24 percent

Lack of expansion to Blizzard's omnipresent MMORPG causes games division revenues to drop to €221 million ($342 million); overall Vivendi revenues up 5.2 percent.
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Posted May 15, 2008 12:15 am GMT 35 Comments

Q&A: Stargate Worlds MMORPG team

Members of the team working on the upcoming online version of Stargate talk to GameSpot about when the game will be coming, what their favourite features are so far, and reveal that they will be announcing more titles this summer.
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Posted May 15, 2008 9:39 am GMT 11 Comments

Sony revenues hit $78.5 billion

Games division losses down by nearly $1 billion over the last financial year; PlayStation 3 and the new slim PlayStation Portable see spike in sales.
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Posted May 14, 2008 1:47 pm GMT 331 Comments

Stubbs runs Xbox Originals Gauntlet

Wideload Games' brain-eating zombie lurches onto Microsoft's online platform alongside Midway's Seven Sorrows hack-and-slash dungeon crawler on May 19.
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Posted May 15, 2008 12:45 am GMT 48 Comments

Lost Planet Colonies goes gold

Capcom finishes development on budget-priced redux of Akrid-hunting sci-fi shooter for Xbox 360, PC.
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Posted May 15, 2008 2:22 am GMT 32 Comments

Sega Sammy posts half-billion-dollar loss

Tokyo-based publisher suffers major setbacks on decline of its once-popular pachinko business; game sales up overseas, but down in Japan.
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Posted May 14, 2008 5:21 pm GMT 61 Comments

Video Q&A: Kim measures up Microsoft Games

Xbox 360 maker's senior vice president of publishing house talks to GameSpot about how the console's exclusive offerings stack up against the competition.
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Posted May 14, 2008 10:49 pm GMT 32 Comments

MySims given keys to Kingdom

EA confirms new installment in life-management game for Nintendo's DS and Wii this fall.
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Posted May 14, 2008 7:56 pm GMT 18 Comments

Video Q&A: Dyack talks Too Human

GameSpot speaks with Silicon Knights' president at Microsoft's Spring Showcase about his long-awaited Norse-mythology action RPG finally getting a release date.
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Posted May 14, 2008 9:29 pm GMT 16 Comments

Metal Gear Solid 4 golden

Konami announces completion of "conclusion to the Metal Gear Saga" at press conference, unveils world tour, collaboration with iPod, Ubisoft, and more; new trailer inside.
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Posted May 13, 2008 6:45 pm GMT 462 Comments

Q&A: Media Molecule devs talk LittleBigPlanet

We corner three members of the Media Molecule team and pick their brains on user content, the changing nature of game development, and everything LittleBigPlanet.
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Posted May 14, 2008 8:29 am GMT 18 Comments

EA reports loss, record full-year revenues

Company reports 27 million-selling titles in past year, lays claim to top publisher title in Europe, North America.
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Posted May 13, 2008 10:18 pm GMT 101 Comments

Too Human co-opting August

Silicon Knights' long-awaited 360 epic role-playing game will finally arrive August 19 in North America and August 29 in Europe; new online co-op mode revealed.
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Posted May 13, 2008 5:19 pm GMT 126 Comments

Zoids Assault Xbox 360 on Aug. 26

Atlus landing long-running mech-combat toy franchise on North American shores later this year.
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Posted May 14, 2008 12:32 am GMT 59 Comments

GTAIV gains Guinness Records approbation

$310 million, 3.6 million unit launch of Take-Two and Rockstar's open-world crime game gains official recognition as fastest-selling entertainment property.
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Posted May 13, 2008 8:32 pm GMT 136 Comments

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Activision annual sales near $3 billion

Guitar Hero III, Call of Duty 4 boost publisher's year-long sales 92 percent; $602.5 million in Q4 revenues nearly doubles prior year's.
Posted May 8, 2008 10:58 pm GMT 48 Comments

COD5 invading 'new theater,' next 007 COD4-powered

Publisher confirms follow-up to Infinity Ward's modern-warfare shooter will have new setting on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, and DS; COD4 engine to power next James Bond game, due this fall.
Posted May 9, 2008 1:32 am GMT 521 Comments

Id faces fourth Doom

Texas studio announces it is hiring developers for next installment in its horror shooter series...and all its job listings are for PS3, 360, and PC.
Posted May 7, 2008 6:58 pm GMT 181 Comments

GTAIV shatters records with $500M in week-one sales

Take-Two proclaims open-world actioner "largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment"; day-one sales top 3.6 million units, week-one sales over 6 million.
Posted May 7, 2008 6:10 pm GMT 616 Comments

Newsmakers

Hirai confident of eventual PS3 victory

SCE president tells BBC Sony's flagship console will outpace the Wii and Xbox 360 by the end of its 10-year life cycle.
Posted May 8, 2008 12:57 am GMT 656 Comments

Q&A: Dissecting Dark Sector

Director of Digital Extremes' latest action game talks to GameSpot about what worked, what didn't, and what he wanted to do differently.
Posted May 2, 2008 2:41 am GMT 47 Comments

Q&A: Exploring NASA's MMOG space

Project manager Dr. Daniel Laughlin talks about getting the US space agency's educational massively multiplayer game off the ground.
Posted May 1, 2008 6:33 pm GMT 28 Comments
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