French publisher’s holiday quarter earnings rise 12.9 percent to $736.6 million; Snowboarder scores 2.3 million copies, savanna-survivor bags nearly 3 million; Prince of Persia’s 2.2 million-unit start deemed “slow.” Earlier today, Microsoft Prendimi l’anima dvd and Sony announced alternately disappointing and gloomy earnings reports. As the first-party publishers bound their financial wounds, third-party game publisher [...]

Sega’s zombie shooter for Wii goes gold; gamers finally able to “suffer like G did” February 10. Sega’s violent homage to terrible movies is ready to roll. Today the publisher announced that House of the Dead: Overkill has gone gold and will be ready to meet its February 10 North American release date. Hospital of [...]

.!. Development of Ensemble Studios’ swan song RTS complete; hits Xbox 360 March 3, demo due February 5. The big news out of Microsoft’s Consumer Electronics Show press conference wasn’t exactly a showstopper, but it was good for those looking forward to Ensemble Studios’ swan song, Halo Wars. The Xbox 360-exclusive sci-fi real-time strategy game [...]

In 2003, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay earned high marks from reviewers who pointed to the Starbreeze Studios-developed first-person action game as an example of the proper way to convert films into games. Mo’ Better Blues video Part of that was no doubt based on the game’s array of voice talent, which boasted [...]

Way back in 2007 when Rock Band was still just an unproven IP from MTV Games and Guitar Hero creators Harmonix, the game was already catering to its base–as well as a Deadhead or two. At that time, the Grateful Dead agreed to lend some 18 master tracks to the nascent franchise, with the first [...]