Rumors began circulating yesterday that Australian developer Krome Studios has laid off a good chunk of its staff and closed its Adelaide studio, leaving just its Melbourne and Brisbane studios behind. Krome has now officially commented on the situation, and while it’s perhaps not as bad as original reports had suggested, the situation at Krome […]
Aug
24
XBLA Game Room Developer Krome in Trouble
Category: PSP News, Playstation Portable Network
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Aug
24
Success for 3rd Birthday May Extend Parasite Eve to PS3
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Aug
24
THQ to Include Single-Use Code With Smackdown vs. Raw 2011
Category: PSP News, Playstation Portable Network
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Mirroring EA’s recent counter-maneuvers against the used games market, THQ has revealed plans to include a single-use code with new copies of WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011. Like the online pass for Madden 11, this code will unlock online multiplayer and other premium content.
Specifically, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 users get free access to the […]
Aug
24
Rumor: PSP 2 Shown to Some Publishers, Has Touch Controls
Category: PSP News, Playstation Portable Network
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Sony did not publicly show off (or even announce or otherwise mention) the PSP 2 at GamesCom this week, but reports are now spreading that Sony has given a few publishers private demonstrations of the device in its current, incomplete incarnation. Eurogamer reports that three separate, unnamed publishers have been shown the PSP 2, with […]
Aug
24
Developers Sound Off on the Fighting Game "Boom"
Category: PSP News, Playstation Portable Network
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Between Street Fighter IV, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and the recently-announced Street Fighter/Tekken tie-in, it seems fair to say that the fighting-game genre hasn’t been this healthy in ages. The question, of course, is how to keep it going — how to keep fighters from falling once more into the creative pit it wandered into […]

