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Funcom has suffered declining operating losses, as well as a decline in revenues during the fourth quarter of 2007. The developer of upcoming MMO, Age of Conan, has reported that group operating losses increased from $1 million to $3.1 million in the fourth quarter. The company has also revealed that …
Read More »3D Realms working on XBLA Duke Nukem
Remake set for later this year; DK Forever coming to PC, PS3, 360
Read More »Folding@home hits one million
PS3 users have been supporting the research on Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Cancer at a rate of 3,000 new users per day, says SCEI. The Folding@home project aims to understand protein folding and misfolding, and how these are related to diseases and forms of cancer. Since partnering with SCEI, we have …
Read More »Black and Ninja Gaiden head to Xbox Originals
The Xbox 360’s Xbox Originals service, which allows gamers to download full Xbox games on their console, is set for a boost next week with the arrival of three new titles. EA’s trigger-happy FPS Black will be joined by Tecmo’s pseudo-sequel Ninja Gaiden Black and 2K Games’ Sid Meier’s Pirates …
Read More »Brain Training suffers Watchdog attack
Gaming has supposedly got a race war going on thanks to BBC One’s consumer rights show Watchdog . Last night’s edition granted five minutes to claims that that voice recognition technology used in Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on DS discriminates against those with Northern accents as it struggles to …
Read More »PSP dev costs halved
Sony's SN Systems team reduces price of handheld development tools by 50 per cent
Read More »No More Heroes began life on 360, says developer
Grasshopper founder Suda51 has told MCV that he first planned for Rising Star’s No More Heroes to be an Xbox 360 title. Speaking exclusively in the No More Heroes Recommended Extra magazine given away free in this weeks’s MCV magazine, Suda51 said: Originally, I’d wanted to make this game for …
Read More »Slimline 160GB PS3 on the cards?
It’s easy to lose track of what new PS3 SKU to expect next, what with all the recent talk of 80GB cancellations and 120GB rumours – but now tech site T3 is claiming to have the scoop on a brand new slimline PS3. Claiming to have word from a ‘particularly …
Read More »Rock Band moshing on Wii
CVG reports that Electronic Arts has confirmed Rock Band is coming to Nintendo’s Wii. EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed the information during the question-and-answer session of the company’s third-quarter conference call, referring to the coming launch” of a Wii version of the game. Last year, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos said …
Read More »Microsoft soliciting XNA feedback
Future versions could contain physics, AI or inverse kinematics engines
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