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Immersion appears to be a difficult thing to achieve in a first-person shooter for most developers. Either that, or developers just throw in the single-player as a side-thought to what is essentially a multiplayer-focused...
They say that the classics never die, but this isn’t always the case. I couldn’t honestly say that the lifeless photo-faces in Goldeneye hold up quite like they did back in the N64′s heyday,...
There’s rarely a moment when Peter Molyneux isn’t on the frontline, representing the gaming industry in front of the press. He’s particularly prominent in the headlines at this time, because he’s just released Curiosity with his...
Despite being widely accepted as one of the big games studios, Square Enix have just come out of a torrid financial quarter, reporting a net loss of $67 million, despite the $760m of net...
The absolute mess surrounding the release of Skyrim DLC for the Playstation 3 is one of the big scandals on the year’s gaming calendar. While PC and particularly Xbox 360 owners have been enjoying...
It’s barely a month since Resident Evil 6 was released. In the gaming community, it was hoped (somewhat against hope) that the game would resurrect the one-time iconic survival horror series. Purists of the games bemoaned...
Stronghold remains one of the strategy games I hold dearest to my heart. From the medieval, mandolin soundtrack to the characters, to the large-scale battles, the game was a well-deserved sleeper hit in its...
Fittingly following my last news piece covering the increasing profitability of the freemium gaming sales model, Gamesindustry.biz conducted an interview with Creative Assembly devs Renaud Charpentier and Nick Farley. The two are responsible for...
To some, the term ‘freemium’ is derogatory, representing greedy developers who get hapless players addicted to their repetitive-yet-addictive games for free, and then bleed them of their hard-earned money by getting them to splash...
It’s no secret that Sony have been going through a financially turbulent period recently. In some ways this seems self-explanatory, while in others it remains perplexing to anyone other than an economist. The PS3...
