Archive for May 9th, 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Mega-publisher Activision held its Fiscal Year 2008 earnings call yesterday. While you can listen to it yourself, most of the gaming news came from an 8-minute division in over an hour-long conference call. Here are the highlights from the call:
Check out Activision’s Family Album to learn more about the company’s internal studios.
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So we all know there is a “Big Game” coming this holiday season for the Nintendo Wii… but do we now know what it is? Could it be the beloved Kid Icarus?
IGN’s Matt Casamassina has “pretty much” confirmed what most were speculating: that it’s Kid Icarus. Recently Casamassina was speaking on IGN’s Nintendo Voice Chat [...]
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm
Activision is planning to innovate the Guitar Hero franchise. In a conference call yesterday, Publishing CEO Mike Griffith said, “For the holiday, we will provide a distinctive leap forward in innovation for Guitar Hero worldwide, on all platforms.” That includes PlayStation 3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii and DS. Griffith also said that more information will be provided “in the coming weeks.”
We wonder if this has anything to do with those recent rumors about Guitar Hero IV going multi-instrumental. Guess we’ll find out soon.
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Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Driving
While it may seem seem like just yesterday that we first played Sony’s love note to console gear heads in Gran Turismo, it was actually ten years ago … a realization that made us feel incredibly old as Sony and developer Polyphony Digital announced that the sim, that first got its license in December 1997, has shipped more than 50 million units across the globe.
This figure, of course, includes the recently released Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, which according to Sony has shipped out more than 2 million units. The company is playing coy, though, as to whether this number includes just physical products or digital downloads over PSN as well. We’d like to extend our hand and congratulate the series for making it this far, but unfortunately it didn’t stop between the two yellow lines on the pavement so it’s going to have to go back to the start and try again.
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