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After a brush with bankruptcy last year, retailer GAME is back with a vengeance, managing to get the right to sell Nintendo eShop games. Codes for games like Fire Emblem: Awakening can be bought either by email or receipt printouts, with prices coming in at either the same or under eShop … [Read more...] about GAME To Sell Nintendo Wii U & 3DS Digital Games

Interactive film/game narrative poster child Heavy Rain made $100 million at retail, despite a slender marketing budget and non-traditional gameplay. Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere said, "Sony earned more than €100 million with this game. It's very profitable," before reiterating the … [Read more...] about Heavy Rain Cost €16.7 Million, Made €100 Million

Edmund McMillen's indie hit Binding of Isaac has reached a sales milestone usually reserved for AAA games with budgets in the tens of millions. This remarkable achievement highlights the game's widespread popularity and the dedicated fanbase it has garnered since its initial release. A version of … [Read more...] about Binding Of Isaac Sells Upward Of 2 Million Copies

Nintendo's less than elegant but arguably useful Circle Pad Pro allowed the 3DS to steal away the mighty Ultimate Monster Hunter 3 from its traditional home on Sony handhelds. US 3DS XL users, however, have had to do without the peripheral, an oversight which the company is now … [Read more...] about Nintendo 3DS XL Circle Pad Coming To America

While AAA games are usually cited as $60 behemoths when the issue of pricing comes up (especially when contrasted with 99 cent and free to play App store offerings), the truth is it usually doesn't take long for some AAA releases to reach the depths of mobile game pricing. The Impact of Bundles … [Read more...] about Battlefield 3 On Sale For $5 On Origin Australia

After leaving Activision, Jason West and Vince Zampella's new EA-backed studio (minus West, who left Respawn last year) will be sharing a project name with their former employer's next MMO project. Blizzard announced its World of Warcraft successor is codenamed Titan, while Respawn just filed a … [Read more...] about Respawn, Former Infinity Ward Dev’s New Studio Trademarks “Titan”

Legendary racing studio Criterion is not coming back to the genre any time soon, according to Criterion studio manager Alex Ward. Ward cites Criterion's long period of working on nothing but racing games, despite having proven its ability to swim in other waters with 2006's well-received Black and … [Read more...] about Need For Speed & Burnout Studio Criterion Stepping Back From Making Racing Games

The omnipresent danger of funding a Kickstarter campaign is that the studio asking for money will fail to deliver. An experienced team with an impressive track record mitigates that risk, but what about a huge developer with untapped resources? It turns out the risk then is that the studio might … [Read more...] about Elite: Dangerous Studio Frontier Making Wii U Title Coaster Crazy Deluxe

Ron Gilbert created one of video games' cultural touchstones in the Monkey Island series, but the last game in the franchise he's touched was Monkey Island 2. The series has seen a few more entries since then, but if he could make a new one, that's where he'd get back to in a simple throwback to the … [Read more...] about The Monkey Island Game Creator Ron Gilbert Would Make If He Owned The Rights

Since the dead tree business is increasingly giving way to the might of the pixel, at least one traditional publisher is hedging its bets with an alternative storytelling medium. Black Crown is a free-to-play narrative-driven game made with technology built by Fallen London developers, Failbetter … [Read more...] about Random House’s Black Crown Narrative Project Coming In May

QUBE, the puzzle game that saw the light of day as the first ever Indie Fund project, is now coming to the Wii U. Developer Toxic Games has tweeted a picture of the game running on Nintendo's GamePad and also hinted at a Sony PS Vita version. Both Sony and Nintendo have been avidly courting indie … [Read more...] about QUBE Getting Wii U Version, Potentially Vita

Assemblywoman Linda Stender wants to make it illegal to operate arcade games rated M or AO by the ESRB anywhere in a public space. Fortunately, the ESRB doesn't rate arcade games, making this an exercise in futility likely brought about by the recent ban of light gun games in Massachusetts public … [Read more...] about New Jersey Video Game Law To Regulate Non-Existent Games