THQ has been in trouble for a while now. The game development and publishing company saw its product line and profit margins fall to shambles as they pumped money into the uDraw Tablet and licensed franchises that went absolutely no where. After losing millions on bad publishing choices, THQ saw itself threatened with a delisting from the NASDAQ this past January, thus potentially...
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Yesterday, the Internet got a heaping helping of drama courtesy of one frustrated customer and the behavior of one PR and marketing “expert.” Paul Christoforo took the concept of even bad publicity being good publicity and completely ran off a cliff with it. You can catch the better summation of the deal in our coverage from yesterday. In a nutshell, one customer contacted a company...
One developer has taken to doomsaying, something we're seeing a lot of these days in the gaming world. According to a lot of analysts and outspoken industry types, it seems that just about every console manufacturer is in big trouble … unless they change their heinous ways. The industry personality in question is Henrique Olifiers, the Co-Founder of Facebook game developer Bossa...
Covering the gaming industry, mysteries and controversy are few and far between. There are leaks, rumors, hearsay and conjecture, but outright controversy doesn’t happen all that often. Think back to the earth-shaking news that saw the heads of Infinity Ward leave Activision entirely. That was controversy for the gaming industry. Possible Wii HD pics in the wild? Not controversy....
E3 stands for Electronic Entertainment Expo. It's the largest yearly gaming convention designed and put on for both industry press and investors. It's meant to serve as a launch pad and showcase of the newest upcoming games and hardware. What it's turned into, however, is an arms race. Companies go after one another every single year as they battle, collectively, for the best press...
Every year on April 1st, no industry batons down the hatches and braces for a storm of terrible puns and delightfully different bits of news quite like the gaming industry does. We used to be fooled by the preposterous nature of these April Fool’s gags. Like the time Nintendo Power told us we could catch Luigi in Pokemon if we followed an extremly lengthy and deliberate set of...
The head of Rovio (makers of Angry Birds), Peter Vesterbacka, is making more news this week for his call-out style challenges tossed in the console gaming industry's direction. The developer made waves in the middle of this March when he suggested that console gaming was dying, and now he's further supported his argument by calling console games in general "$49 pieces of plastic."...
In a brief article that appeared on Sokuhou @ Houkanko (Japanese within), 75 Japanese developers were polled to list their favorite games from 2010. Yes, this is the type of thing that feels like it should have been making news in January instead of March, but we’ll let it slide based on the interesting results of the questioning. These Japanese developers were given one stipulation...
A devastating earthquake hit off of the coast of Japan at the end of last week. The devastation of the earthquake and the tsunamis that followed has been horrendous. The nation is experiencing the largest disaster it’s seen since the end of World War II. As international allies rise to give Japan aid, the gaming industry within the nation’s borders and without is doing its part. There...