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Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Wii Sports Resort has relinquished its spot at the top of the Swedish gaming charts to The Sims 3. Further down the charts, Wolfenstein achieved decent sales results despite lukewarm scores.
Multiformat
1. The Sims 3 (PC)
2. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
3. Top Trumps: Horror & Predator (DS)
4. Wolfenstein (PC)
5. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC)
6. Hearts of Iron 3 (PC)
7. Prey (PC)
8. Call of Duty: World at War (X360)
9. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
10. Wolfenstein (X360)
11. Call of Duty: World at War (PS3)
12. World of Warcraft (PC)
13. Pokémon Platinum (DS)
14. Wolfenstein (PS3)
15. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
16. Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (PC)
17. Wii Fit (Wii)
18. Spore (PC)
19. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (X360)
20. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Last week, Stockholm based outfit, Paradox Interactive revealed that the next project from their internal team (who just finished Hearts of Iron 3) will be a sequel to the colonial era strategy title Victoria: Empire under the Sun.
The project was chosen after the Paradox community had a chance to vote on what the team should do next and CEO Fredrik Wester was not to happy with the outcome seeing as the original game failed to turn a profit. His promise to the community and the team is to shave his head if the game sells enough to break even.
Victoria 2 is targeted for release sometime in 2010.
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
In the wake of the trouble that culminated in Grin filing for bankruptcy on Wednesday a new studio made up of former employees at Grin’s Gothenburg studio (closed down in June). The company has 25 employees and has a stated intention to work on platforms such as iphone, PSN, PSP, and XBLA, in addition to working on “online components for AAA-titles”. Outbreak Studios will be attending Gamescom, but at this point it is unclear whether anything on the first project will be revealed at that time.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Rumours late last night state that Swedish game developer Grin, best known for the recently released Bionic Commando and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter on PC, are in even deeper financial trouble than previously thought. According to several independent reports employees were told not to come to work today. It now seems Grin are on the verge of declaring bankruptcy.
Earlier this summer Grin closed down their Barcelona and Gothenburg offices making approximately 130 jobs redundant. It was made clear that times were grim as the employees were not given the standard three months notice. These measures would seem to have been in vain.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
With Swedish developers Avalanche Studios wrapping up work on the sequel to 2006’s sandbox action romp Just Cause, news emitting from Hollywood is that a movie deal has been reached. Adrian Askarieh who has previously landed rights and set up other Eidos’ properties ‘Hitman’ and ‘Kane & Lynch’ with movie deals is once again at it. After making Hitman into a successful movie (a sequel is on the way) Askarieh is looking to secure around $30 million in independent financing.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Petter Mårtensson got into the studio at the very last second (blame the train) to do this week’s GRTV News. It’s not the busiest time of the year for gaming news, but there is still plenty of both good and bad news to be had this week.
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
EA have released a financial report for the first quarter of their fiscal 2009 (April-June) and two top performers were The Sims 3 and EA Sports Active. The Sims 3 released in the beginning of June managed an impressive 3.7 million in sales, while EA Sports Active became the company’s most successful Wii title to date with 1.8 million in sales.
The first expansion of The Sims 3 was announced this week and the 3.7 million is probably just the tip of the iceberg in terms of life time sales. The Sims franchise has sold in excess of 100 million copies worldwide.
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Petter Mårtensson is back in the studio to give us a run through of the latest news in the gaming world. Kill that curiosity of yours and check it out!
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