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Amazon, PC Gamer Quick To Capitalize On Firing

Aaron Dunlap — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:30:32 -0600

Do a Google search for Jeff Gerstmann and you might be troubled by the automatic advertisement that appears on the right-hand side.

They Fired Jeff?
Get reviews from PC Gamer instead.

The link goes to an Amazon.com page at which you can subscribe to PC Gamer. It's a little funny, but I think it's slightly more pathetic. Someone lost their job. The entire game review industry is under suspicion. They want to sell magazines?

UPDATE: Using our own Google Adwords account, we sent a message to Amazon. See below:

The Amazon ad was removed soon afterwards.

Xbox 360 Makes EA Over 12x More Money Than PS3

Aaron Dunlap — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:00:08 -0600

Not to stoke the fires of the great Console War, but according to this quarterly income report filed by EA, in the last six months the mega-publisher has earned roughly $218 million from Xbox 360 game sales and a paltry $17 million from PlayStation 3 game sales.

That comes out to slightly under 13 times more revenue from Xbox 360 games than PS3 games.

EA even made more money on from PSP games than PS3 games. Hell, they even made more on cell phone games.

In short, the largest video game publisher on Earth is making practically no money from a system nobody wants to buy, because there's no good games, because nobody would buy them if they made them, because nobody has that system.

Or because the only notable games released for the PS3 have been first-party releases.

Sony Loses Money Due to PS3

Shiva Stella — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:49:34 -0500

According to Sony's October 25 earnings report as neatly summarized by BusinessWeek, the company's game division for last quarter suffered losses up to $848 million, bringing its first-half losses to $1.1 billion. And yes, that's a hell of a lot of money.

The culprit seems to be the PlayStation 3, which will soon encourage additional financial woes with the selling of its 40GB version as the company has already been selling both the 60 and the 80GB versions at a loss. Things aren't exactly looking up, especially considering that the Wii and Xbox 360 have both been doing well on the market. All signs are pointing to an interesting holiday season from a gaming sales perspective...

Tomb Raider: Legend Officially Announced

The Gaming Horizon Archive — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:01:00 -0500

It has been quite a journey for the Tomb Raider series over the past few years. About a year ago, Eidos Interactive announced that Crystal Dynamics would take over the series and create their version of Tomb Raider which is now called, Tomb Raider: Legend. Earlier today, Eidos officially revealed the title to the media and released a new character model of Lara Croft herself.

In setting the stage for the Tomb Raider franchise moving forward, we took ourselves back to Laras origins, asked ourselves the hard questions and challenged ourselves to think differently, said Chip Blundell, vice president of brand marketing, Eidos Inc. Who is Lara Croft? What makes her tick? How is she relevant today? Only by answering these questions could we ensure that gamers get the experience they deserve with the character they love.

Even before the first title launched, Lara Croft had to fight her way into the Tomb Raider franchise, since at the time most game characters were muscle-bound blokes, said Gard. The Lara Croft character is resilient and totally unstoppable. In Tomb Raider: Legend, we explore these core personality traits and reveal the Lara Croft gamers have been waiting to see.

The character model that you see below features natural structure, realistic textures, detailed facial features, reactive eyes and fluid motion, all of which make her part of a living environment. Crystal Dynamics also stated that Lara Croft will have new controls, so expect Lara to do various new things that you are not used too seeing in past versions.

There will be three versions spanning across the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. No word on a PSP version as of yet. Gaming Horizon will have a full preview of Tomb Raider: Legend on April 12. So bookmark the page!

Originally written by Tim Grube