Publishing

Reuters reports that the platform holder now expects to have sold 1.5 million fewer PS3s than its initial sales target up to March. But its handheld console has outstripped forecasts – Sony has raised its sales target for PSP for the current business year by three million to 13 million. …

Attention gore fans: Brash Entertainment has announced it has acquired the rights to a game based on grisly horror movie series SAW. Underneath an eerie headline of ‘Oh yes.. There will be blood…’ a Brash press release sent out today reveals the title will be released in October next year …

Wii TOP 10 ALL PRICES 1. Wii Play (Nintendo) 2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) 3. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) 4. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) 5. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) 6. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo) 7. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo) 8. …

Top Microsoft exec Jeff Bell has revealed that the format holder plans to make Xbox 360 ‘this generation’s PS2′. Bell, corporate VP of global marketing for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, also said he was hopeful that 360 would become popular with Wii owners who had ‘graduated’ above Nintendo’s console. Speaking …

Girl Gamer is an extension of Future’s Official Nintendo Magazine, and will be included free with Easter issues of Panini’s monthly title Bliss and fortnightly publication Mizz. The second issue will focus on DS and Wii titles, and follows the success of the first magazine. It boasts a print run …

Sony and Activision bosses unsure platform can bankroll video games

Sony’s Howard Stringer and Activision’s Bobby Kotick have both said they are unsure whether video games can be fully sustained by in-game advertising. The news comes after EA announced it was to make its new Battlefield game available for free on the internet – and was financially supporting it through …

Cambridge developer to launch casual portal

Empire Interactive is to release a version of popular racer FlatOut on PSP on March 14th. FlatOut: Head On will feature eight cars per race and Empire has promised up to 4,000 destructible objects per track. The publisher claims the title will run at a ‘smooth’ 30fps. A company statement …

SCEE president and CEO David Reeves has told MCV that both user registrations and online purchases through PlayStation Network are ahead of SCEE’s expectations. One thing that has surprised us is in the Network purchases and the general level of interest that has been shown around the Network business,” he …