Category: Industry News
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Pokémon USA President Steps Down
Pokémon USA’s president Akira Chiba announced yesterday that he will be resigning from his position at the end of the year in order to pursue other opportunities. I guess I’d be pretty sick of Pokemon after that long, too. Chiba joined Pokémon USA, Inc in 2002. Chiba will be replaced by Kenji Okubo, the current…
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Nielson Company Issues It’s Top 10 List For 2007
Well, this list isn’t too shocking. World of Warcraft tops the PC list, probably because it’s totally awesome (maybe even too awesome). The Sims is still holding on though, with the number two spot. I don’t think I’ll ever forget playing that game for the first time…long story. The PS2 is still dominating the console…
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TIME Picks Their Top Ten Games of 2007
TIME has picked their top ten video games of 2007. I don’t know if I would really regard them as the authority on gaming, but whatever. It’s pretty much the list you’d expect, all the biggies are there, I think. I love this comment about Halo 3: “The epic storyline and the stirring score don’t…
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Spike TV Video Game Awards Sucks
Kotaku (don’t click the link if you don’t want to see spoilers) has put up a list of various winners of Spike TV’s 2007 Video Game Awards show. Some of the choices seem extremely odd to me… Don’t click if you don’t want to know the winners before the show airs.
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Is Dreamcast 2 in the Works? I Doubt It.
Kotaku has posted an article speculating that Sega may be working on the Dreamcast 2. Inconceivable! This would be a dream come true for the legions of Sega fans out there, but how valid are the speculations? The article sites information about a patent Sega filed in August 2007. The patent was filed to protect…
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Street Fight IV Details
1up has some first details about the upcoming Street Fight IV. The article explains that, though the game engine uses 3D graphics, the game play will be 2D, which is good I think. I never really got into 3D fighters but I love games like Marvel vs. Capcom. The standard six-button control will remain and…
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Gamespot Q & A in Response to Jeff Gerstmann’s Firing
Gamespot has released an official Q & A about the recent firing of long time editor Jeff Gerstmann. The article is in response to allegations that Gerstmann was fired due to advertisement pressure. According to the article, Gerstmann was fired following an “internal review process by the managerial team.” The whole thing screams “Please don’t…
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Kane & Lynch Website Lies About Review Scores
In the midst of this whole Gamespot fiasco, some visitors to the official Kane & Lynch: Dead Men website have noticed the site displays two different reviews for the game. One is from Game Informer, giving it 5 stars and a quote from the review, “A mercenary, a psychopath & a bundle of cash…What could…
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Vivendi Games and Activision Merge
Sunday Activision and Vivendi Games announced a merger between their two companies. Vivendi will be the majority share holder, purchasing $1.7 billion in Activision stocks. The whole deal will be worth roughly $18.9 billion dollars. The new name for the company will be Activision Blizzard, which is a pretty unoriginal name if you ask me.…
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What’s Going On At Gamespot?
Earlier this week Kotaku reported receiving an annoymous tip claiming that long time reviewer Jeff Gerstmann had been fired from Gamespot because he had given a bad review (6/10) for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. This was, apparently, a massive conflict of interest, since Eidos (publisher of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men) had taken out…
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Marching Bands Like Video Games
I don’t really even know what to say. Why did they choose to do a video game theme? I mean, a lot of people in the band must really love video games to decide to do this. It’s pretty well done…watching the Tetris blocks move is almost mesmerizing. It’s too bad everything is upside down.…