A headline at Square-Enix Music Online, a fansite, notes that Square-Enix has voted to disband their in-house music team. The six affected composers on the team are reportedly out of a job, including: Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy XIII, Dirge of Cerberus, SaGa Frontier II) Junya Nakano (Final Fantasy X, Threads of Fate, Musashi: Samurai Legend) Tsuyoshi Sekito (The [...]

Today publisher Activision announced new “strategic plans” for the Call of Duty franchise, including a new developer and the departure of key Infinity Ward staff members. As we’ve reported on earlier, former studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward, officially. Activision announced it will form a “dedicated [Call of Duty] [...]

According to an interview with website UGO, God of War III director Stig Asmussen wanted to cut the topless ladies from Kratos’ latest outing. Asmussen asserted they needed a purpose beyond eye candy. “It was more a debate between me and several of the story writers,” said Asmussen. “I was like, ‘I’d rather not have it [...]

So SemiSecret, the developers of the surprise Flash and now iPhone hit Canabalt had a game put together before that, by the name of Gravity Hook – described as a mix of Bionic Commando and Peggle. Well, it’s being remade for the iPhone, but you can play it right now in Flash. It’s been overhauled in every [...]

In a move that hasn’t really surprised anybody at all, Sony announced today via their European PlayStation Blog that Media Molecule – developers of the smash hit LittleBigPlanet – has been purchased by Sony Computer Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. Said Sony Europe boss Michael Denny, “The most important thing is that nothing will change from [...]

Last night, Activision locked down the Infinity Ward offices after a meeting with studio heads Jason Ward and Vince Zampella, who are now confirmed to have terminated their employment. Since then, more information has come to light on the subject which might clarify the situation somewhat. Of course, we’ll update you as soon as we [...]

PlayStation 3 owners from around the world have reported a particularly troublesome error – Error 8001050F to be specific – preventing people from playing their games both online AND offline. Most of the users were owners of the original PlayStation 3 units, or “Fat” consoles, and have found that since Sunday, they have been unable to [...]

Patrick Klepek, a reporter for G4TV’s “The Feed” posted a report just under two hours ago regarding some kind of incident going on at Infinity Ward. Reportedly, a source from the development studio has informed him that a “bunch of bouncer-types” arrived outside the studio offices unannounced, and are unwilling to disclose the reason for their [...]

from Gemini_Red A few days off with only a few things to do couldn’t have come at a better time as I got to plow through Heavy Rain. I didn’t play through it so quick just to do it, once the story started rolling I wanted to see it to it’s end. As mentioned in the [...]

Every year Xbox likes to celebrate their innovative XBox Live Arcade service with a “Summer of Arcade”, a month long event that usually sees the services biggest releases for that year. Well this year things are going to be a bit different for the service as Microsoft is also readying the release of their new [...]