Recently, Junction Point studio head Warren Spector revealed that not only is the approximately-115 person team at Junction Point developing Epic Mickey , but that after factoring in outsourcing, the total number of people working on the game is closer to 275. See the article here: Warren Spector...

Speaking with The Wall Street Journal , Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick shared some fascinating info on the breakdown of profit between the various gaming markets. The verdict: Only about 30 percent of the publisher’s profit comes from console releases. View original post here: Only 30...

Nintendo has been much maligned for their Wi-Fi Connection service on the Wii and DS, which necessitates entering annoyingly large “friend codes” in each individual game to play with friends online. And during a Q&A session (via Kotaku ) with various analysts following their E3 press...

Director Edgar Wright has managed to secure permission to include music from The Legend of Zelda in the upcoming film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim, but only after showing the film to Shigeru Miyamoto himself. In a Wired interview conducted by star Michael Cera (via GoNintendo ), Wright said that he needed...

Babysitting Mama, a spin-off title of Majesco’s successful Cooking Mama franchise, has players putting their Wii remotes inside a plush baby doll — but they’re only offering the plush in one color. Though there will be six avatars of “different races” and both genders in...

One of the glaring omissions from Nintendo’s E3 press conference last week was the absence of the Vitality Sensor. It was revealed at E3 last year and then not really heard from, so it seemed likely that we’d be getting a demonstration of the technology, if not an accompanying game, during...

The 3DS may only be the beginning of Nintendo’s 3D intentions, as president Satoru Iwata said to Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun paper (via Andriasang ) that they may introduce 3D into their next console as well. When asked by the paper if Nintendo has any plans to create 3D games on the Wii,...

The gaming industry’s annual foray into media spectacle brings with it game demonstrations, hands-on time, interviews with developers, and of course, carefully crafted trailers. These are made explicitly to warm up your wallet for the coming retail onslaught, and more often than not they succeed....

Motion controls and third dimensions, old heroes in new looks and old foes becoming new best friends — there were a ton of new announcements at E3 2010, as we knew there would be. With Konami’s press conference wrapped up and most of the major E3 news behind us, we’re ready to take...

Terrible wireless connectivity prevented us from properly liveblogging today’s Konami E3 press conference, but we were still on hand for the most important announcements. The company’s presentation was largely centered around games previously shown at its Gamers Night a few months ago. Still,...