In a recent conversation with Forbes, Sega of America said through its president Simon Jeffrey that it’s now competing with the “next tier” of publishers, but it isn’t quite ready to take on the giants just yet.
Jeffrey said that his company has been able to compete with such names as Capcom, Midway, and Eidos over […]

 
The recently released Wii Region Changer from Waninkoko has a risk of semi-bricking your Wii, but that’s old news. Those who’ve taken the time to absorb the basics of region-lock circumvention already know that changing the region settings of your console will also change the console’s system configuration.
And a configuration mismatch is a stall […]

Square Enix’s overall sales are down in Q1 of this fiscal year, but that doesn’t mean the company is losing money. As a matter of fact, it’s gaining more profits compared to the same period last year.
Overall revenues fell 9.3 percent to US 275.3 million. Profits, however, jumped up to US 26.7 from […]

 
While most publishers in the video game industry are reporting decent to good earnings in Q1 of 2008, the story is a bit different for THQ as it dipped well into the red zone with triple the losses it incurred in the same period last year.
THQ finished the quarter with US 137.6 million, US […]

Tyrian, a classic and well loved shooter game that has already been ported to a number of other platforms, has now been introduced to the Wii thanks to the efforts of Wiibrew developer nuvalo. OpenTyrianWii is still in its test version, so there is no support for the nunchuk or classic controller as of yet, […]

  
AnyTitle Deleter is a new Wiibrew program from developer tona. Similar to Redbird’s Title_Uninstaller, this program will allow you to delete almost any title from your Wii, including previously un-deletable ones, such as IOS, MIOS, and some system channels.
Of course, having that much control over your Wii could be dangerous as you could delete some […]

Fresh from releasing his Custom Firmware Wiibrew programs, developer waninkoko has released another useful new program, Wii Region Changer, which does exactly what it says. Now you can play games and download from the Wii Shop Channel without concerning yourself with regional restrictions.
Note that you will need waninkoko’s Custom IOS37 rev 03 installed for this. […]

 We’ve seen in recent news that Activision Blizzard did not include Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, DS, PC) in its list of releases slated for 2008. Fears that it might be canceled were expressed, but the latest indicators suggest otherwise.
Over at the Variety blogs, it was reported that Vivendi is “re-evaluating” […]

 
Gamers have already seen not-so-inconspicuous product placements in several games, and they can expect in-game advertising to be taken to the next level. Apparently Google has devised “AdSense for Games,” an advertising system that can be implemented in future games.
Here’s how AdSense works, as shown in demos: an in-game character may suddenly pre-empt and announce […]

Electronic Arts has posted its quarterly financial report and a lot of it was the kind of stuff we’re used to seeing from the giant. What got our attention is how the Sony PlayStation 3 is now by far its biggest revenue machine with a huge leap over last year’s results.
In Q1 of 2007, the […]