Category: General
Scottish Gaming Industry Gets a huge Funding Boost
Dundee, which is the centre of many new Scottish innovations has just received a massive £2.5 Million cash injection for gaming development and education, this follows a £1 Million development in Salford. The cash will create a healthy job increase across the gaming sector as well as ensuring future development in the UK for the gaming industry as a whole.
Scots secretary Jim Murphy said: “This is a great day for the games industry and really good news for Dundee.
“A crucial element will be the deployment of talented students working together with small firms on prototype creation – breaking new ground in on-campus working and ‘industry-ready’ graduates.
“This innovative approach and new investment will ensure we continue to develop the homegrown talent. This is vital if we are to ensure our video games firms are best placed to take advantage of the growing global market.”
Hellgate: London is Not Dead Yet
You read correct, Hellgate: London is coming back, but this time it will be tailored for the Asian market under the title Hellgate: Resurrection. Based in Tokyo this time with “significant more content and reworking”.
I remember the first public release of this game at the I event a few years ago, the hype was great but unfortunately the end result was a sub par, buggy affair with a controversial payment system which left many gamers with a sour taste in their mouths, perhaps this time will be different with rumours of an EU and US release on the cards. I certainly hope they have a fantastic PR team behind this release.
Gaming Giant EA Trimming New Releases by 20%
John Riccitiello, Chief Executive of EA has stated in a Reuters interview that the company will be trimming titles from 50 per year to about 40 to focus on quality over quantity going forward.
“Thirty wouldn’t shock me at some point in the future,” Riccitiello said at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York on Tuesday.
These cuts follow recent reports that EA slashed 1,500 jobs in an effort to lower costs, after the $300m USD acquisition of social gaming company Playfish.
Suma Controller, the future?
This is an interesting one, a new controller which focuses on “squeeze” technology as an interface to replace your mouse/joystick and in some cases even your keyboard.
Read the full article for more information, we will be keeping an eye on the development for you, it seems promising so far.
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PS3 Record US Sales!
Black Friday is always a massive day for the US gaming industry, this year amid a financial crisis and growing banking sector issues Sony is a success story of note, producing sales figures for the PS3 of nearly half a million consoles and an increase in PSP sales.
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Steam Early Holiday Sale
The “five-day-long one-day-only” sale is on over at steampowered, a very interesting way to approach Christmas but promises to see many gamers getting fantastic deals, worth checking out.
