MAG, the experimental new multiplayer FPS with massive, 256-player matches (our review here), has been gaining traction in the world of PlayStation 3 gaming. In a recent post in which he thanks fans for making 2009 a flagship year for the PS3, Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton revealed...

Bizarre Creations has been with no doubt talking up their upcoming power up-based racing game Blur. However, the scheduled date for its release, which was 2009, is now fading and looking, well, blurred. In fact, it’s way out of focus as Activision today announced that Blur will not be hitting any...

It’s a commonly accepted idea that if you want to play a game, you need a game console. But such common knowledge may not hold in the future, says Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. At a recent technology conference in San Francisco, the gaming executive stated that “you should expect to see many of our...

That’s my fragile sense of optimism Sam is crushing against a dingy men’s room mirror. All those publishers who hoped to escape the crowded holiday release season by pushing their titles to next year are starting to realize the Q1 2010 lifeboat is riding a little low in the water. Ubisoft CEO Yves...

Consumers aren’t the only ones happy that Sony has finally cut the price of their PS3 to $299/€299. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and EA Games president Frank Gibeau have nothing but praise for Sony’s late, but welcome decision to slash prices on their home console. “It’s an old line, but it...

Activision is set to dominate this holiday season with a flood of huge titles including Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, DJ Hero, Guitar Hero: Van Halen and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. But Activision won’t be resting on its laurels for 2010. In fact, they show no signs of slowing down. In a quarterly...

Remember when Realtime World’s studio head Colin MacDonald said he doubted Microsoft would harm their “otherwise fruitful existing development relationship” by handing Crackdown 2 over to a “startup on RTW’s doorstep,” referring to Ruffian Games, the new Dundee-based development studio employing...

..apparently the people at Crytek couldn’t handle the constant ‘When is it coming to consoles?’ nagging anymore. Crytek CEO and prez Cevat Yerli explains: “It’s a question of more than economics. At the end of the day we’re paying salaries and we all have to live, but that’s one side of...