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People Can Fly expects big sales from FPS.
Polish developer People Can Fly is bullish when it comes to the potential success of bombastic FPS Bulletstorm. Why? Because publisher EA will “market the f***” out of it.
“We are pretty ballsy,” outspoken studio founder Adrian Chmielarz told Eurogamer in a Bulletstorm interview published today. “We definitely want a couple of million units sold.
“The first magic number is a million units. Surprisingly, not a lot of games are able to reach that. I’m hoping it’s going to be huge, but I don’t want to jinx it.”
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Chair Entertainment boss admits that the developer has no idea how Infinity Blade will perform on iPhone.
In an exclusive Edge interview, Chair Entertainment creative director, Donald Mustard, draws attention to the lack of empirical data available to iPhone developers. Asked what his expectations are for Chair’s action RPG Infinity Blade, released on the App Store tomorrow, he offers a candid response.
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EA Games boss says future output “needs to be connected online”.
Electronic Arts Games label president Frank Gibeau has declared that games that contain no online component are “finished” because “online is where the innovation, and the action, is at.”
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Apparently Ubisoft had no idea.
Anti-piracy measures don’t come more ingenious than overlaying hacked DS versions of Michael Jackson: The Experience with a vuvuzela drone. Especially when you consider that Ubisoft apparently knew nothing about it.
But the inventor, Marcelo Oliveira, knows that annoying as the South African plastic horn can be, it may take a teensy bit more to curb piracy completely.
“When I came up with the idea,” he said (according to Tiny Cartridge), “I thought it would at least make the game pirates laugh.
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Note: includes DS and PSP.
How many consoles from this generation have now been sold around the UK? Answer: 32.4 million.
That covers everything from PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 to DS and PSP. The number was found buried within a meaty GAME financial paper.
Chart-Track, data-tracker and publisher of the results, didn’t break down the number by platform. But we can assume that Nintendo’s consoles dominate the pile, Xbox 360 is sandwiched somewhere in the middle and Sony’s machines snap at heels from the rear.
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Browser app store boasts over 200 games from EA, Bigpoint, Zynga and others.
Google has launched the Chrome Web Store, an app marketplace that runs in its Chrome web browser and already has over 200 games to download from the likes of Electronic Arts, Namco, Zynga and PopCap, as well as assorted software and browser extensions.
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Solar Minotaur Rescue Frenzy.
Old-school shoot-’em-up specialist Jeff Minter has made a new game for iPhone and iPod Touch, with animals in.
It’s wacky, as is his trademark, and called Solar Minotaur Rescue Frenzy.
A spin on Asteroids, Minotaur challenges you to blast space-rocks, reveal horned cow-humanoids inside and then swipe your ship across the screen to rescue them before they are gobbled by the flames of the sun. Another mode removes the sun; another mode adds tanks; another mode adds jets.
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Has sold over a million units in Europe.
Fantasy role-playing game Two Worlds II will be released in the UK and US on 25th January next year, TopWare Interactive has announced.
The game has already sold over one million units in Europe after just three weeks on sale.
SouthPeak Games was set to publish the game in the UK and Ireland, but TopWare has now taken control and will publish on these shores instead.
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Peter Moore teases “obscure new title”.
The next game in snowboarding series SSX takes it “back to its roots”, sources claim.
It features controls similar to those found in Skate, Kotaku reports.
That means the right thumb stick will be used to perform tricks.
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Plus, playable characters leaked?
Angry God of War star Kratos will be a playable character in upcoming gory fighting game Mortal Kombat.
That’s according to the January issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine (reported by StickSkills).
Kratos will have his own fatalities, combat moves and God of War themed arena, the report claims.