February 2011 | Console Games

Monday, February 28, 2011

“Disney buys children's social network Togetherville” plus 1 more

Disney buys children's social network Togetherville

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:25 AM PST

Purchase is part of company's move away from console games and into social networking

ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 12:08 AM PST

If you've got a gamer in the household, and he or she has already mastered that stack of console games they received for Christmas, don't despair. There is a new website that facilitates the trading of console games among players.[...]

Sunday, February 27, 2011

“Disney buys children's social network Togetherville”

Disney buys children's social network Togetherville

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:50 PM PST

Purchase is part of company's move away from console games and into social networking

Saturday, February 26, 2011

“Disney buys children's social network Togetherville” plus 1 more

Disney buys children's social network Togetherville

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:25 AM PST

Purchase is part of company's move away from console games and into social networking

ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:51 AM PST

Friday, February 25, 2011

“News Corp Launches 'First Full-Service' Social Games Publisher” plus 1 more

News Corp Launches 'First Full-Service' Social Games Publisher

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:54 AM PST

Media giant News Corp. is dipping its toe into the gaming waters, but not with triple-A console games (an area that many conglomerates, such as Viacom and Disney, have been backing away from).

ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 12:08 AM PST

Thursday, February 24, 2011

“Nvidia Helping Devs Port Titles to Tegra-Android” plus 1 more

Nvidia Helping Devs Port Titles to Tegra-Android

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 06:20 PM PST

Nvidia will conduct a workshop on how to port PC and console games to its Tegra platform and the Android OS.

Disney buys children's social network Togetherville

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:50 PM PST

Purchase is part of company's move away from console games and into social networking

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

“HTC Flyer, the Aluminium Android Tablet That Plays Console Games [Video]”

HTC Flyer, the Aluminium Android Tablet That Plays Console Games [Video]

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:39 PM PST

# tablets Like every other 7-inch Android tablet, HTC's Flyer is essentially a very big phone. It even looks slightly phonier than the rest. But it might be the nicest oversized phone-tablet yet. More »

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

“Minecraft client coming to iOS, Android platforms”

Minecraft client coming to iOS, Android platforms

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 06:57 AM PST

Mojang's popular PC indie game Minecraft is getting iOS- and Android-supporting client releases later this year, according to reports.

Monday, February 21, 2011

“ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt” plus 1 more

ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:51 AM PST

HTC Flyer, the Aluminium Android Tablet That Plays Console Games [Video]

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:39 PM PST

Sunday, February 20, 2011

“ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt”

ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 12:08 AM PST

Saturday, February 19, 2011

“ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt”

ENT: Exchanging video games - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt

Posted: 19 Feb 2011 05:08 AM PST

Thursday, February 17, 2011

“Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games” plus 1 more

Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 01:09 PM PST

It's probably fair to say that most people love the interactive experience of playing realtime multiplayer games, yet perhaps surprisingly, the majority of games on the App Store today are single player. Even the popular social games on Facebook don't offer the rich experience of the classic multiplayer console games like Halo. This seems largely due to the fact that the coding, synchronizations ...

Finnish startup merges social networks, core games

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 11:00 AM PST

Finnish startup Supercell aims to build success on combining social games with elements from traditional console games.

“RECOMMENDATIONS: Game Set Match!” plus 1 more

RECOMMENDATIONS: Game Set Match!

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 08:20 AM PST

Mario heads to the tennis court for this week's look back on the Virtual Console. As we march towards the launch of an entirely new set of handheld games on 3DS Virtual Console, we stop along the way and take another look back at the Virtual Console games that have been available on Wii. First up is Matthew Blundon's trials of Mario Tennis for Nintendo 64. Does the grandfather of Mario Sports ...

NEWS: 3DS eShop to Feature Rating System, Wish List

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 08:05 AM PST

Videos from the Minna no Nintendo channel on Japanese Wiis show off more about the eShop. Downloadable games can be rated in the Nintendo 3DS eShop, according to a video on Nintendo's Minna no Nintendo channel on Japanese Wiis. The video shows Super Mario Land with a rating of 4 out of 5 stars. Unfortunately, the price for Super Mario Land and other Virtual Console games were not shown. There is ...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

“Video Game Industry Thinks Mobile” plus 2 more

Video Game Industry Thinks Mobile
Interview: CrowdStar Developers On Facebook Policy Changes, Social Game Stigmas
HTC Flyer, the Aluminium Android Tablet That Plays Console Games [Video]

Video Game Industry Thinks Mobile

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 08:30 AM PST

"After years of consistent growth, retail sales of core console games, which often cost around $60, are at best flat these days. Though an improving economy could change that, the major growth in the game business is on social networks and cellphones."

Interview: CrowdStar Developers On Facebook Policy Changes, Social Game Stigmas

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 02:34 AM PST

Independent developer CrowdStar stands among the largest companies in the social games space, with 41 monthly active users across all of its titles. The company currently specializes in Flash-based games for Facebook with Happy Aquarium and It Girl among its most popular releases. A number of the company's developers originally moved over from the console space, and have since been forced to ...

HTC Flyer, the Aluminium Android Tablet That Plays Console Games [Video]

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:39 PM PST

Monday, February 14, 2011

“Crysis 2, Killzone 3 Already Hitting BitTorrent” plus 1 more

Crysis 2, Killzone 3 Already Hitting BitTorrent

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 12:26 PM PST

Piracy will eventually force PC games into digital-only distribution while console games will require serial numbers. Arg!

Sony Console Games Come To Mobile Phones

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:08 AM PST

Sony Corp. released the tech world's worst kept secret on Sunday afternoon by announcing the Xperia Play Android phone at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, PC World reports. Despite what you may have read, it's not a PlayStation Phone. In fact the PlayStation logo is not anywhere on it. Consider it instead an Android "Gingerbread" slide-bottom phone (with PSP-style controls ...

Sunday, February 13, 2011

“Chess, shooters and yarn: February's new console games”

Chess, shooters and yarn: February's new console games

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 07:22 PM PST

Berlin - Anyone seeking respite from the cold weather in console games has a healthy range of choice this month. Along with classics like shooting, fighting and racing games, there are some new ideas, including a chess-themed battle simulator and a whole world of fabric and yarn.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

“Report: Facebook games make more than console games” plus 1 more

Report: Facebook games make more than console games

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 01:10 PM PST

IGN estimates that Facebook games CityVille and FarmVille make more than multi-release console franchises like Madden 11 and Halo: Reach.

More games jobs to go at Disney

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:18 AM PST

Epic Mickey dev Junction Point hit this time

Thursday, February 10, 2011

“Go go Namco Bandai: publisher gets exclusive Power Rangers rights”

Go go Namco Bandai: publisher gets exclusive Power Rangers rights

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:46 PM PST

News flash: the Power Rangers franchise still exists. It's still an actual property that people are doing things with -- people like Namco Bandai, who just acquired the exclusive North American video game rights to Power Rangers . The first use of these rights will be a series of home console games based on the new Power Rangers Samurai series, which is the nineteenth season of Power Rangers to ...

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

“Games sales take 16 per cent hit thanks to online sales”

Games sales take 16 per cent hit thanks to online sales

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:18 PM PST

Video games sales in Australia dropped by 16 per cent year on year to $1.7 billion in 2010, according to the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA).

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

“Disney Interactive sees growth in Q1 2011 despite 'acquisition accounting'”

Disney Interactive sees growth in Q1 2011 despite 'acquisition accounting'

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:31 PM PST

The Walt Disney Company has reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2011, and the Interactive Media department saw revenues increase 58 percent from last year over the same period, to $349 million. Despite "higher sales of console games" this year ( Epic Mickey and Toy Story 3 are cited as part of the "strong performance"), the company says that the acquisition of Playdom nevertheless led ...

Monday, February 7, 2011

“AvP game engine Asura 'fully functional' on NGP”

AvP game engine Asura 'fully functional' on NGP

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 05:02 PM PST

Go ahead and add Aliens vs. Predator to the list of console games that are possible on Sony's next-generation portable . Rebellion has a "fully functional" version of its Asura game engine ready -- and ready to be licensed -- for NGP game development, reports CVG . According to MobyGames , Rebellion has used the engine since 2003's Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death , with the most recent incarnation ...

Sunday, February 6, 2011

“Report: Facebook games make more than console games”

Report: Facebook games make more than console games

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:04 AM PST

IGN estimates that Facebook games CityVille and FarmVille make more than multi-release console franchises like Madden 11 and Halo: Reach.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

“Chess, shooters and yarn: February's new console games”

Chess, shooters and yarn: February's new console games

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 07:22 PM PST

Friday, February 4, 2011

“Go go Namco Bandai: publisher gets exclusive Power Rangers rights” plus 1 more

Go go Namco Bandai: publisher gets exclusive Power Rangers rights

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:46 PM PST

More games jobs to go at Disney

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:18 AM PST

Epic Mickey dev Junction Point hit this time