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PS2 to $99
March 31, 2009
MARCH 31, 2009 • After resisting a reduction in PlayStation 2 pricing for years, Sony Computer Entertainment announced it was lowering the retail price from $129 to $99 in North...
ECA Suggests Packaging
March 30, 2009
MARCH 30, 2009 • At a recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conference, the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) made a number of recommendations regarding retail video game packaging. The first recommendation...
Surveying the High-End PC Gamer
March 29, 2009
[caption id="attachment_1690" align="alignleft" width="400"] Shooter lovers just like to bust things up.[/caption] MARCH 29, 2009 • This month DFC Intelligence released two comprehensive surveys of high-end PC gamers. The surveys...
Zeebo Targets Emerging Markets
March 29, 2009
MARCH 29, 2009 • Start-up companies trying to compete in the console game market have routinely met with failure. Even well-established companies like Philips, Apple and Matsushita have not been able to...
OnLive Makes Splash at GDC
March 24, 2009
MARCH 24, 2009 • The latest OnLive video game streaming technology made a media splash at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco In development for the last seven...
Handhelds Popular in Japan
March 23, 2009
MARCH 23, 2009 • Enterbrain's Famitsu magazine published the results of a reader survey that illustrated how much more mobile Japanese gamers are. Only 15.1% did not own a Nintendo...
Research Triangle Park Hub
March 20, 2009
MARCH 20, 2009 • DFC Intelligence continues its regular series of profiles on game development hot spots around the world with this month’s look at the Research Triangle Park area...
Petursson On CCP’s Universe
March 19, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3168" align="alignleft" width="263"] CCP chief executive Hilmar Petursson.[/caption] MARCH 19, 2009 • MMOs come and go, but EVE Online has soldiered on year after year building its player base...
