A few days ago, Kaz Hirai was made Sony’s new president and CEO, taking the place of Howard Stringer. He wasted no time in letting everyone know that changes on the horizon that will hopefully save Sony from it’s almost two decades of lows. The official takeover will happen in April, but no time will be wasted twiddling thumbs from the looks of...
Most of you already know that Ubisoft has some incredibly draconian DRM, since a lot of their games require that you keep a connection going with their servers at all times as you play the game. Well, what happens when those servers go offline?
On Tuesday, February 7th, Ubisoft will be moving its servers, and have not specified how long it will take. For those...
There are certain gaming companies that I’m not fond of. Two of the things that usually put me off to a company is excessive use of DRM, and the act of buying up companies, just to run the franchises into the ground with constant releases with little innovation. However, when you compare these to the copycat tactics of gaming giant Zynga.
A couple of...
Yesterday we showed you Bethesda’s teaser video for the upcoming Creation Kit for Skyrim. This will finally make most of the company’s development tools available to consumers, so that the game can be customized to your liking. What the company failed to tell us was exactly when the kit would be available.
Thanks to a Tweet from @Bethblog we at...
More troubling news, as THQ announced that “up to 240 selling, general and administrative personal worldwide” will be laid off. The layoffs will be finalized on September 30th, 2012, but most of the layoffs will occur by March 31st.
The CEO and the Board of Directors are not immune to THQ’s troubles either, as they are all taking 50% pay cut. CEO Brian...
PC gamers from around the world, you can now rest your weary heads. Alan Wake for the PC now has a release date, and it’s coming soon to a system near you. Players can pick up the game on Steam starting February 16th, and it will launch at the price of $29.99.
There will be a Limited Collector’s Edition for $35, just like when the game launched on...