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The Most Obvious Thing About EA Needs To Be Said Anyway

EA’s “Fewer, Bigger, Better” strategy for its key packaged goods releases will not work if the games are, in fact, not “Better”. Analyst Michael Pachter lamented the oddly low quality and poor sales of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and praised the delay of Fuse.


Maybe The PlayStation Orbis Will Play Used Games After All

Used games: you love them, need them and want to marry them. Publishers and developers blame the second-hand market for lack of innovation, saying the money they don’t see from used games would let them be more creative.


Dancing Games Hit Their Stride, Show Huge Growth In Sales

The Los Angeles Times has taken a look at the October NPD numbers, which show that dancing games like Just Dance 3 and Dance Central 2 have grown in sales 326 per cent over last year. That far outpaces the next nearest fastest-growing genre, fighting games, which grew just 33 per cent over the same period of time.


Pachter: ‘Difficult To Predict A Hugely Successful Launch’ For Wii U

I know – slow news day! It’s not usually relevant to discuss every single prediction made by games industry analysts, but I thought this was quite interesting and, to an extent I agree. Michael Pachter, speaking to Industry Gamers claimed that it was “difficult to predict a hugely successful launch” for the Nintendo Wii U.


Jamie Kennedy Still Sensitive About Trainwreck Of E3 2007 Hosting Gig

Jamie Kennedy, star of Son of the Mask, Malibu’s Most Wanted and Wii game Real Heroes: Firefighter doesn’t always deliver brilliantly inspired performances. See his E3 2007 Activision press conference hosting gig, for example, which he’s still really really sensitive about, according to a recent Twitter tirade.


Kotaku vs Gizmodo: Will Your TV Replace Your Console?

Nowadays TVs are doing more than ever before. Panasonic and Samsung have both announced that their future televisions will feature “app stores” built in, stores which include… video games. Is this the future? Can you imagine a world without consoles, a world in which games are streamed directly through your TV? I say ‘no’. Nick Broughall from Gizmodo says ‘yes’. What say you?


No Strikes, But One Out As Labour Unrest Hovers Over Video Games

For a brief moment Tuesday, I wasn’t sure we’d be seeing any basketball video game this year. I’d taken for granted that NBA 2K12 would release, a death-and-taxes sure thing in October for more than 10 years.


Price Tag On NBA Elite’s Delay: $US60m And Counting

Yesterday, we reported that a delay of NBA Elite 11′s release lasting past the end of the year jeopardises the sale of as many as 1.1 million copies. Today, the analyst offering that estimate put a dollar figure on it.


Twisted Metal 2 Accidentally Confirmed?

During the latest episode of Bonus Round, analyst supreme Michael Pachter may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag about Playstation 3 racer Twisted Metal 2. The analyst mentioned the game while talking about solid games coming to the PS3 that don’t have Move support. David Jaffe says via Twitter it was a joke. Damage control?


Electronic Arts Plans To Make You Pay For Glorified Game Demos?

Electronic Arts plans to grow its digital game business to become one-third of their total revenue over the next few years and that includes starting to charge for what one analyst described as very long game demos.


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