Codemasters Studios vice president Gavin Cheshire has revealed that the company’s currently at work on a sequel to last year’s Colin McRae - Dirt 2.
The executive made the first mention of Dirt 3 during an interview featured in the latest issue of Edge, E213, which hits UK newsagents on March 16 and should be in subscribers' hands now.
Best known for his work as the composer, sound director and producer on the Silent Hill series for Konami, Akira Yamaoka is now working at Grasshopper Manufacture on an unannounced title. Delivering a talk that offered no hints to his future direction, Yamaoka considered the methods that he’s used in sound design to help enhance players’ connection to his games.
Nintendo’s DS was the bestselling system in the US last month, moving 613,000 units, while Microsoft’s Xbox 360 leapfrogged Wii to take the top home console slot with 422,000 sales.
Both systems achieved monthly personal bests, with Nintendo saying that the “DS family of systems set a new US record for portable video game sales in the month of February”, and Microsoft noting that it enjoyed “the biggest February in Xbox 360 history”.
The Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 topped February software sales in the US marketplace, according to the NPD Group.
Take-Two’s shooter sold 563,000 copies on 360, 7,000 units more than second placed New Super Mario Bros. Wii. NPD noted that PS3 sales of BioShock 2 came in a little short of 200,000 units.
The DevQuizz is back! This ever-popular game takes place at each Ankama Convention and sees 5 players face off against 5 DOFUS developers (including the mighty Lichen) to answer questions (in French) about all things DOFUS.
If the players win a round, they win prizes. However, if they lose a round, the Devs will spin the dreaded Wheel of Nerf to see which class will be “balanced” in the next update!
This year, all spectators present at the Main Stage can attend the DevQuizznator for a chance to qualify for the DevQuizz! A giant quiz will be organised for teams, with each wrong answer immediately eliminating the whole team. The last remaining team will be invited up on stage to answer some more knockout questions, until there are only 5 participants remaining...
Head over to the Main Stage at Ankama Convention #5, it’s time for your training to begin!
February retail sales in the US videogame market were down 15 per cent year-on-year, from $1.48 billion to $1.26 billion, according to the NPD Group.
Software sales dropped 15 percent, from $736.7 million to $624.4 million, largely in line with Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz’s prior forecast.
Whether you think that videogames should be emulating cinema or music, sport or even the mindless pleasures of card tricks – and whether you think that such comparisons are largely pointless – a big part of their defining appeal will always be this: finding out what happens when you press a button.
Speaking at GDC, Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto downplayed his legacy—which includes the Metroid and WarioWare series—by claiming that as few of the titles he has developed have seen a release outside of Japan, he could be considered a “niche” game developer. And, he said, in Japan the Metroid titles are also considered niche, so “perhaps rather than having global appeal, I really am a developer who can only make niche games.”