Still here, just not a lot going on in the world of PC gaming, but try this for now: The publisher that I believe is killing PC gaming with ports from Xbox and PS3 have taken the good road to PC goodness by adding it’s titles to the already expanding and all PC conquering Steam. At the moment the games are only available in the US and Canada, but with Steam, in all its greatness, expect to see this on UK and European Steam’s soon (I hope). If you’re lucky to already be in the US or Canada you can now pre-order Assassin’s Creed in the working format of pre-purchase to play it first on the 9th April you lucky lucky few.
March 7, 2008 by Darren Davie
in 'Game Publishers, Game Stores, Gaming'
Who in the world can publish your game? PC World! That’s right folks DCGi (Dixon’s Stores Group International) the company behind the UK store PC World and Currys plan to unveil a gaming label to release its own brand of PC, mobile Xbox Live and PlayStation Network games for retail and download. Wow this is weird, DCGi are just a bunch of box pushers so to start their own brand is very odd. [SHOW ME]
March 7, 2008 by Darren Davie
in 'Game Publishers, Gaming'
Well out of the blue Infogrames are now on the acquire market moving in to take over Atari. Atari has seen some bad times with CEO David Pierce leaving the company last November, and also stopping its production of games to refocus on publishing and distribution in North America. Infogrames are already the majority share holder and the move would see them acquiring the remaining equity.
Infogrames not long ago appointed former EA Worldwide Studios David Gardner as CEO, which helps you understand why infogrames have made the proposal. In truth Atari can do with the help so all-in-all its not a bad move. [SHOW ME]
February 25, 2008 by Darren Davie
in 'Game Publishers, Gaming'
Well they’re at it again. Not so long ago EA CEO John Riccitiello held up his hands and stated they made a big mistake when it swallowed up Bullfrog (creators of Populous and Theme Park) and Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer) with creators from the companies saying they were “buried and stifled” by EA. Electronic Arts are now on the move to acquire Take Two, who’s subsidiary, Rockstar Games, are on the verge of this years biggest release Grand Theft Auto IV.
T2 are not a small company which makes this deal seem even worse, with EA being the biggest games company with some of the biggest titles this can only be seen as a move for some quick money and to jump on the band wagon of the GTA series. What is also strange is that EA would move for a developer/distributor whose main games are of an adult rating. This deal would also see the takeover of Global Star Software and Gathering which are working on the very long awaited Duke Nukem Forever which also is likely to be of an adult rating. This could also be a move to compete with the recent merge of Activision (Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare) and Blizzard (World of Warcraft) to make Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Below are some links to the news, with the bottom one showing the rivalry between EA and Activision Blizzard, Inc. The move would also see 2k games fall into the hands of EA, the people behind Bioshock (this could get ugly with EA’s track record.) Here’s the links before I get carried away.
[A history of EA's spending habit] [EA Made a mistake] [EA conference call]
[The Letters] [Big headed EA]
