Week Beginning 1st September

Monday 1 September 2008

The week in words.

Square Enix (Final Fantasy XII) have made a non-hostile (means they wouldn't be a controlling shareholder) $200 mill (£101 mill) offer for Temco (Ninja Gaiden), who have been in financial difficulties for a while. The bid would act as something of a leash of life, to allow the developer to continue making games. The reasons for this are clear because Temco's selling point isn't difficult as was proved with the immense success of Ninja Gaiden II, but they have been struck by various law suits and staff problems that have left them without much investment. More details.

Ratner, director of Rush Hour and X-Men 3, has announced his wish to direct a Guitar Hero movie. It would, he stated, be one of those 'dream come true' storylines. I hate those storylines so much. More details.

Another business related story. Nintendo have upped their profit projections by 26%, up to a net profit of $1.5 billion for the 6 months ending September 30th, and up to $3.8 billion for the full year, next March. Whilst this could be explained away by the fantastic profits made on products such as the Wii Fit, and also by the affordability of the products next to the Xbox 360 and the PS3. However, what is a big contributing factor is that, for a heavy export company like Nintendo, the weak Yen means great things, and a bigger profit on every unit exported. More details.

The new S.T.A.L.K.E.R game, due for a worldwide release of September 5th, is to be put back a bit due to production problems in North America. This delay will only affect North American purchases of the game, and the European release is still scheduled for September 5th. The American release has not got an exact date, but estimates put it at 15th September. More details.

That's about it for this week. So until next week, I believe there's a Too Human review in the works, and DW will get round to posting some more interesting little gaming ditties. But it's my birthday on Friday, so I doubt I'll get round to posting until next Tuesday (going out Monday night), but I will get to it, have no fear.

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