Take-Two Interactive today announced its financial results for Q1 2009, ended January 31. The company's Q1 net revenue was $256.8 million, up a modest $16.4M over Q108's $240.4M. Its net loss for the quarter was $50.4 million, $12.4M worse than Q108's $38M. Sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchise ac...

Did you know that some developers consider the PS3 difficult to develop for? You can add the Wheelman team at Midway Newcastle to that list, following candid comments by the game's executive producer. Appearing on the This Xbox Life podcast, Shaun Himmerick was questioned on developing for 360 and P...

Filed under: Mobile Bastion of hard news, Star Magazine , reports that President Obama may have an ulterior motive for wanting his (very fancy) smartphone: gaming. The article quotes a "confidante" who reveals Obama plays BrickBreaker on the device "to unwind," and that the freshly inaugurated leade...

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 Yes, we said " GTA IV: The Lost and Damned unboxing video." So what? DLC comes in a box all the time. What part of digital distribution do you have a problem with? Clearly the digital part, since everyone knows you need a box for that. You know -- somewhere to keep th...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Metareviews EA got the folks who made the rather excellent Star Wars: Battlefront II to make Lord of the Rings: Battlefront Conquest , so it, too, must be rather excellent? Despite the source material, developer pedigree and the fact that ...

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Online Not too long from now, at a Media and Business Summit not all that far away, LucasArts may be announcing a new game in the Star Wars Battlefront series. Online shopping megali...

Filed under: Hacks, Retro, Peripherals Old hardware doesn't die ... it just gets hacked. As documented in the above video, Jeff Ledger has pieced together a clever little collection of chips and wires to bring vaguely Wii remote style interaction to the Commodore 64. Perhaps it should be called Wii-...

Filed under: Hacks, Sony PSP, Rhythm It's not often (in fact it's never) that you see a game tagline line this: "Make music with a disc of 510 067 420 km² = the Earth." But that's what Oterp , a hombrew PSP app by Antonin Fourneau does. Oterp uses the PSP GPS add-on to track your relative p...

Filed under: Arcade, Retro It's hard to believe that a quarter-century has passed since the first LaserDisc-based arcade game from former Disney animator Don Bluth hit arcades. Dragon's Lair 's use of hand-drawn animation set it apart from anything else at the time, and despite its simple trial-and-...

Filed under: Nintendo Wii Nintendo Europe senior marketing director Laurent Fischer has pulled an about-face. His comments last week hurt the feelings of "geeky" Wii owners seeking more space for their WiiWare and Virtual Console downloads. Fischer now tells GamesIndustry.biz that the console maker ...