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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Thought we’d be satisfied with a single rain drenched Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne pic. One photo is not enough! No way, no how. We need more Mark, less rain. Check out the above photo of Marky Mark. It’s the second shot of him as Max Payne. The third is after the jump. The fourth is somewhere else (we don’t know!).
Some publishers are good at getting games out, globally, with minimal delays. Some, like Nintendo, are not. Some, however, are even worse than Nintendo. Like Square Enix, whose most recent AAA release – Final Fantasy XII – was released in Europe nearly a year after it first came out in Japan. Not. Good. Enough. Square Enix are looking at fixing that for future titles, though, telling Japan’s Nikkei Net that in order to increase sales in non-Japanese markets they’ll be trying a lot harder to give their games a simultaneous worldwide release. I’ll believe it when I see it, but hey, at least it’s a first step. ゲームソフト、海外シフト――スク・エニ、世界で同時発売[Nikkei]
They don’t throw their numbers around as often as the Xbox Live team do, but does that make PlayStation Network numbers any less exciting? Goodness no. So let’s proceed. According to Sony’s Chris Eden, there are currently 2.8 million registered PSN users in the US (which he also says, interestingly, is 50% of all PS3 owners), joining up at an average of around 100,000 per week. Those 2.8 million – of which a staggering 92% are male and 79% between the age of 18 and 34 – users have made 46 million downloads, with fl0w the top-selling PSN title in the US and Tekken 5 the most popular download in the UK. Best Of GDC: ‘Making Games For PlayStation Network – The Facts’ [GameSetWatch]
We already knew Brits like buying video games more than music. Now it seems like like playing video games more than doing each other. A survey from “bedroom specialist Sharps” polled 2,000 people in the UK about that favourite activities in bed. What did the bedroom retailer find? Number one was sleeping, number two was talking. Three? That was watching TV. To see where gaming fell, hit the jump. It’s surprising!
Two of Take-Two Interactive’s biggest investors, Oppenheimer Funds and FMR LLC, drastically cut their shares in the company, Reuters reports, a sign of “shareholder unrest” that could be bad news for company management. After a rejected buyout offer from EA was made public, it helped boost the Grand Theft Auto publisher’s stock price nine points in one day, making for some assuredly pleased stockholders. But now that Take-Two management have claimed the buyout terms “undervalue” the company, shareholders may be unwilling to wait for a dip in their investment.
Pirates of Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is excited. Not so much about movies, but games. Just like at DICE, he’s very peppy and very clueless. That’s okay! So, what interests Verbinski about games?
Why do we need a PC gaming alliance again? Oh, this is why. Epic boss Tim Sweeney, speaking with tgdaily, has outlined just why his company have signed up to the industry super-friends, and also notes the challenges the group face in returning a little swagger to the brand that is PC gaming: Retail stores like Best Buy are selling PC games and PCs with integrated graphics at the same time and they are not talking about the difference [to more capable gaming PCs] . Those machines are good for e-mail, web browsing, watching video. But as far as games go, those machines are just not adequate. It is no surprise that retail PC sales suffer from that.
In other words, they’ll probably be spending most of their time advertising and informing, as they educate the masses on why Intel integrated graphics processors are a 2-pound bag of horseshit. Unreal creator Tim Sweeney: “PCs are good for anything, just not games” [tgdaily]
