Posts tagged sony

Have Sony Been Preparing Gamers for Losing the Final Fantasy XIII Exclusive?

Square-Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIII is coming to 360 during Microsoft’s E3 press conference yesterday. It came as a surprise to many people and has already gotten plenty of reaction from people. But I bet it wasn’t a surprise for Sony, since a deal between Square-Enix and Microsoft must have been in the works More >

Why Sky High Development Budget is Good for Publishers

The cost of developing a game has increased exponentially over the past few years. The first game I worked, ‘The Punisher,’ had a development budget of six million dollars. I would say that’s in the middle range of development cost during that time. Nowadays, just marketing a high profile game will cost that much, with More >

The Lies We Tell : We never lie

Actually, I lied in the title, everything you hear from video game marketing and press releases are 100% the literal truth, as everyone knows. However, they are crafted to tell the truth but make people see more in the statement than there actually is. They do this through lies of omission or lies by implication. More >