Category Archive: Industry

March 4, 2009 – 11:25 pm, Metacritic score study allegedly shows Rockstar as the most consistently good publisher, Ubisoft as the least

Source: David Perry

March 4, 2009 – 1:00 pm, Square Enix and Eidos agree to buyout terms; deal to be finalized early May

Source: MCVUK

March 3, 2009 – 9:00 pm, THQ lays-off 86 more at Volition

Source: Kotaku

March 2, 2009 – 3:00 pm, BioWare forms 30-man Mass Effect 2 team at EA Montreal

Source: Gamasutra

March 2, 2009 – 11:50 am, Midway selling-off Mortal Kombat IP

Source: Kotaku

February 21, 2009 – 12:05 pm, LittleBigPlanet dominates AIAA with 8 wins

Source: Joystiq

February 20, 2009 – 12:00 pm, Fast Company entrepreneurship magazine picks the top ten most innovative gaming companies; Nintendo, Ubisoft, and Blizzard top list

Source: Fast Company

February 19, 2009 – 6:30 pm, Tell me true, tell me why, did Ensemble Studios die?

Source: G4TV’s The Feed

February 19, 2009 – 1:50 pm, EA CEO John Riccitiello sees a silver lining in all this

Source: Gamasutra

February 18, 2009 – 12:00 pm, Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai founding new studio, Project Sora, with 30 employees; developing new title already

Source: Kotaku

February 14, 2009 – 6:00 pm, Ensemble veterans form Robot Entertainment (games not-safe for human consumption)

Source: Gamasutra

February 13, 2009 – 11:00 pm, NCsoft sees quarterly profits drop 22%; Guild Wars 2 pushed back

Source: VG247

February 13, 2009 – 5:00 pm, EA and Activision going toe-to-toe over Brütal Legend

Source: The Cut Scene Blog

February 12, 2009 – 10:00 pm, BottleRocket comments on Splatterhouse situation, wishes Namco the best of luck, confirms its own new project

Source: Joystiq

February 12, 2009 – 2:40 pm, Square Enix vying for Eidos: submits $117 million bid

Source: Gamasutra

February 12, 2009 – 1:50 pm, Namco moves to acquire D3Publisher

Source: VG247

February 12, 2009 – 11:55 am, Midway files for bankruptcy, claims it will “continue business as normal”

Source: Shacknews

February 12, 2009 – 10:20 am, Crytek: Free Radical acquisition brings us closer to reaching console market

Source: GI.biz

February 11, 2009 – 6:00 pm, An overwhelming helping of news from Activision’s quarterly financial conference call

Source: Primotech

February 10, 2009 – 11:55 am, SEGA hemorrhaging money, cutting its workforce by about 18%

Source: Kotaku

February 8, 2009 – 10:10 am, EA not backing down from a challenge

Source: VG247

February 4, 2009 – 4:00 pm, Stardock is expanding with new employees, new games

Source: Gamasutra

February 4, 2009 – 2:55 pm, THQ’s revenue dropped 30% over the last quarter; plans to cut almost 25% of its workforce

Source: Gamasutra

February 3, 2009 – 11:10 pm, Free Radical staffer confirms acquisition by Crytek

Source: 1Up

February 3, 2009 – 9:00 am, Jason Della Rocca stepping down from his role as Executive Director of the IGDA

Source: Reality Panic

February 2, 2009 – 10:30 pm, Gamasutra tours Ensemble Studios one last time and gives us a glimpse of what might have been

Source: Gamasutra

February 2, 2009 – 9:15 am, Stay tuned to find out the fate of Free Radical

Source: GamesIndustry.biz

January 29, 2009 – 10:30 am, Industry analyst Doug Creutz: Chinatown Wars is “an important test of Take-Two’s ability to make inroads on Nintendo’s [...] platforms”

Source: Gamasutra

January 22, 2009 – 1:50 pm, Ubisoft reveals Q3 sales figures; dates Assassin’s Creed 2, I Am Alive, Splinter Cell: Conviction and many others for 2009-10

Source: Primotech

December 14, 2008 – 8:03 pm, Winners and announcements from the 2008 Spike Video Game Awards

Source: Primotech