The CEO and president of Activision Publishing Mike Griffith has jumped ship. He resigned from both of his roles on Apr. 23. Griffith’s resignation follows the almighty quake that erupted in March, following the sacking of West and Zampella from Infinity Ward. It continues to rumble even now, with the recent news that a whole bunch of IW staff are...

The platforms of Dark Energy Digital’s long-awaited Hydrophobia have been cleared up once and for all. Following some prior confusing statements on the matter, boss Pete Jones has now made it clear that the title will indeed be an Xbox 360 exclusive, but only for a time. After a retail and Xbox Live Arcade release on Xbox 360, the watery action-adventure...

Creative director Maxime Beland spoke with IndustryGamers recently and explained why Splinter Cell: Conviction will lure gamers back to the franchise: “If you look at the sales of Splinter Cell 1 versus Splinter Cell 4, they go a little bit down. So, our fantasy was good but we needed to approach it differently.” That different approach is taking...

Sony marketing executive Peter Dille believes that hardcore gamers “look down their nose” on motion controlled gaming. That is to say, they look down on Nintendo’s motion controlled gaming. What they’re all truly pining for is a more accurate, more advanced motion control scheme like the PS3’s forthcoming Move. Dille explained that Wii gaming...

In a recent interview with Edge, Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg claimed that third-parties “have struggled” in developing games for the Wii. While it’s no secret, Greenberg has numerical data to back up his arguments: 70% of third-party developers have already signed on to create Project Natal-based games — an impressive figure, considering...

Developer Rockstar won’t be holding back the dough on the release of their western-inspired GTA-like action adventure Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar UK general manager Neil Stephen says. “This is our most ambitious game to date and our biggest UK release this year,” Stephen said. “We are spending a larger proportion of our TV budget pre-launch...

Take-Two CEO Ben Feder recently commented on the slow sales that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been suffering from. Given that Chinatown Wars is the most popular M-rated game on the Nintendo DS — representing 50 per cent of all M-rated game sales in the US since February — and the Nintendo DS being the most popular handheld...

Ubisoft’s soon-to-be-released Red Steel 2 could have been sent to the presses with a different name on the box, a recent interview reveals. According to creative director Jason VandenBerghe, the thought of re-branding the cel-shaded Wii launch title follow-up did cross the developers’ minds but, for obvious reasons, was a road not taken. “Well,...

Xbox Live’s code of conduct has been updated to allow references to users’ sexuality in profiles and Gamertags, Microsoft announced today. Previously, “to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs,” Live’s general manager Marc Whitten wrote in the note announcing the changes, certain “expressions of self identification” were...

You might not realize that this is great news, but believe me, this is great news. One of the most underappreciated games from the last generation was The Red Star. The game is based off of a comic book and had the unfortunate distinction of being published by Acclaim, who happened to go under when development was nearly complete. After years of being...