Dec
31
2008
From joystiq.com (and xbox360.ign.com):
Prince of Persia series producer, Ben Mattes, tells IGN that he was "expecting a few more virtual pats-on-the-back" for exploring some unbeaten paths in the Prince’s latest outing, but said pats (virtual or otherwise) have yet to be felt.
"We set out to keep a few core fundamentals but to re-imagine [...]
Dec
31
2008
From pocketgamer.biz:
Gameloft has added new features to its Gameloft Live web community, including emulated demos of more than 100 of its mobile games.
The demos use a Java emulator of a handset, and are controlled by the keyboard. It shows the publisher’s intention to use its social network to more directly drive purchases of [...]
Dec
23
2008
From cbc.ca:
Montreal actor Michael Rudder, who was shot in last month’s attacks in Mumbai, returned home late Wednesday after spending several weeks in an Indian hospital, saying he received a "great gift" from his experience.
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After the gunmen’s grenades filled the restaurant with smoke, Rudder got up and fled the hotel, following a trail [...]
Dec
19
2008
From gamasutra.com:
With the number of titles produced by this ever-growing studio, it admittedly becomes harder and harder to single it out as one developer in the same sense as some of the other entries on this list — and some of its 2008 releases, like Lost: Via Domus didn’t exactly make the biggest splash. [...]
Dec
19
2008
From reuters.com (via joystiq.com):
White, who’s a mainstream brand thanks to his exploits in both skateboarding and snowboarding in the X-Games, has spent the past two years working with Ubisoft’s acclaimed Montreal development studio on his new snowboarding game.
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John Taylor, videogame analyst, Arcadia Research, said "Shaun White Snowboarding" sold 259,000 copies in the U.S. in [...]
Dec
18
2008
From geek.com:
French company Gameloft has been going for just under 10 years now, and has developed on a fair few systems in that time; PC, Nintendo DS, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii and, more recently, the iPod Touch/iPhone OS. Given the current craze for the iPhone, the affordability of the games offered on it and [...]