When asked by CVG if the publisher was done with its oldest properties, Gibeau replied, “Absolutely not. I worked on Desert Strike and Road Rash back in the day on Sega Genesis so trust me, I’m familiar with the IP history.”

“We constantly look at ways to grow the recent category of titles like Burnout, Need for Speed, Road Rash are constantly things we think about,” he said.

“It’s the same thing with the old Bullfrog IPs like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, Powermonger, Magic Carpet, I can go on. So we do look at that stuff and are very cognisant of our past.”

He continued: “The key thing for us is, if we do bring [any of those] back, the game has got to be good. I don’t know about you but when I look back at GoldenEye, I think of it as this amazing game and the you go and play it and are like, ‘Oh. Really?’.

“From our perspective we have to manage that element which makes things look nicer in the rear view mirror compared to what you have to do now in the modern day.”

“Production values and game mechanics are very different than what you see on some of those IPs but trust me, it’s a part of the asset of our company to have 25 years of IP and you’ll see them come back in different ways at different times.”

Last year, EA rebooted one of it’s decade-long franchise Medal of Honor into modern times shooter after a three year gap, putting focus on the Afghanistan war instead of World War II.

It’s rumoured the publisher is set to reboot the old Bullfrog series Syndicate, with development thought to be handled by Starbreeze Studios in Sweden.

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According to Reuters, gamers lined up at the Bic Camera electronics store in Yurakucho, Tokyo – even though initial 3DS stocks sold out in a single day of pre-orders on January 20.

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Read Kotaku’s reaction: The Nintendo 3DS Is Stylish, Grown-Up And Flawed

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That’s according to PlayStation software brand manager Scott McCarthy, who told IndustryGamers that Sony is following the Nintendo approach to business, rather than focusing too much on what the competition is up to.

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The boss of the Alliance, which is made up of members including Epic Games, Capcom, Intel and Dell, reckons the shift to free-to-play models and supplemental content via download has lessened the value of pirated games.

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The recently released Dead Space 2 came at third place, trailing behind Just Dance 2 for Wii.

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Speaking in a CVG interview this week, Yerli said he had tested the service, but was uncertain about its “sustainability” in the current market.

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The firm released a chart of the most anticipated titles of the year across the UK and US ranked by purchase intent, and Epic’s game topped the bill in both markets.

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Both Wedbush’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR expect Xbox 360 to top the monthly rankings with 380,000 units sold.

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The firm shipped 6.5 million copies of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to retail during the quarter, while dance titles Just Dance, Just Dance 2, Just Dance Kids, Michael Jackson: The Experience, and Dance on Broadway hit a combined total of more than 10.5 million units shipped.

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Speaking in it’s financial report, the publisher confirmed the closure of its Guitar Hero business unit and the cancellation of this year’s in-development Guitar Hero game.

“We simply cannot make these games profitable given the current market, the publisher said.

True Crime: Hong Kong was canceled because it was “just not good enough” to compete in the open world genre. Most of all, they didn’t expect it to generate enough profit and stopped development.

Its developer United Front Games said in a statement on its website, that it was “sorry” it did not finish the project,

“We are sorry we did not get a chance to complete this project with Acitivision, but we understand why,”

“We are both committed to doing quality games and nothing less. Maybe we will have a chance to work together in the future, but in the meantime we are setting our creative sites on a different horizon.”

Furthermore, Activision COO Thomas Tippl has just confirmed in the company’s financial call that no Tony Hawk games will be released in 2011 as well as other music titles from the company, meaning no DJ Hero sequel this year.

These decisions are based “on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world’s best interactive entertainment experiences.”

Via VG247

During the same period a year earlier, revenues were higher at $360.4 million, but profit was lower at $37.9 million.

In its financial highlights, the company cited eight million Red Dead Redemption units sold-in to retail since its May 2010 launch, and four million copies of NBA 2K11 shipped.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said: “Strong holiday sales enabled Take-Two to continue to deliver better-than-expected revenue and earnings in the third quarter.

“Our results year-to-date clearly demonstrate the Company’s ability to translate its world-class creative resources and diverse portfolio of triple-A franchises into meaningful profits.”

He added: “Looking ahead to the balance of the year and fiscal 2012, I have never been more enthusiastic about our diverse line-up of upcoming releases.

“From unique, groundbreaking new titles such as L.A. Noire, to the long anticipated return of Duke Nukem, the interactive entertainment industry’s most irreverent hero, we will deliver a broad array of entertainment experiences that promise to delight audiences around the world.”

Below is the list of current games slate for Take-Two:

==Top Spin 4 – Xbox 360, PS3, Wii – March 15, 2011
==Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do – Kinect for Xbox 360 – April 2011
==Duke Nukem Forever – Xbox 360, PS3, PC – May 3, 2011
==L.A. Noire – Xbox 360, PS3 – May 17, 2011
==The Darkness II – Xbox 360, PS3, PC – Fall 2011
==Spec Ops: The Line – Xbox 360, PS3, PC – Fiscal Year 2012
==XCOM – Xbox 360, PC – Fiscal Year 2012
==BioShock Infinite – Xbox 360, PS3, PC – Calendar Year 2012

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It criticized the game for linking sex and violence via innuendo-laden awards in its skillshot system and the award names for feats of in-game carnage including Gag Reflex, Rear Entry, Drilldo, Mile High Club, Gang Bang, and Topless.

The article also went on to quote two experts who decry the game as being potentially harmful.

Dr. Jerry Weichman, a psychologist at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute in Southern California, told FoxNews.com that Bulletstorm’s explicit language and violence could significantly make great damages to the younger kids who experience it, “If a younger kid experiences Bulletstorm’s explicit language and violence, the damage could be significant.”

Carol Lieberman, a psychologist and book author, went even one step further by linking sexual content in games to a spike in sexual assaults. “The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games,”

The article eventually got EA’s Vice president of public relations, Tammy Schachter’s attention and he caught up and responded to the accusations made by Fox News and issued the following response via GameInformer insisting that Bulletstorm is indeed a fictitious sci-fi entertainment that’s only aimed towards adults, not children, “As you know, Bulletstorm is a work of entertainment fiction that takes place in the 26th century on the abandoned fictitious paradise planet Stygia, where our heroes fight mutants, monsters, flesh-eating plants and gigantic dinosaurs.

“Epic, People Can Fly and EA are avid supporters of the ESA and believe in the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) rating system. We believe in and abide by the policies put in place by the ESRB.

“Bulletstorm is rated M for Mature for blood and gore, intense violence, partial nudity, sexual themes, strong language and use of alcohol. The game and its marketing adhere to all guidelines set forth by the ESRB; both are designed for people 17+. Never is the game marketed to children.

“Epic, People Can Fly and EA support the right of artists to create works of entertainment fiction for consumers of all ages, including adults who enjoy action adventures like Bulletstorm. Much like Tarantino’s Kill Bill or Rodriguez’s Sin City, this game is an expression of creative entertainment for adults.”

Aside from EA’s response, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski also reiterated the same thing later in an interview with CVG, once again trying to drive home the fact that Bulletstorm’s over-the-top violence is “all in the name of fun”,

“You know the violence in games, the language and all those issues are issues… on one hand I’ve always found [that] very scary, that people are attacking the industry,” he said.

“But on the other hand, I have found it somewhat flattering because it’s one of those situations where the fact that people think ‘ooh, big scary video games are ruining the world’, I guess, means that we’re the new rock and roll, the new Elvis, the new Dungeons and Dragons, the new moving pictures.

“It means we’re clearly hitting a nerve somewhere. I could talk all day about the tone of the violence in [Bulletstorm]. It’s very tongue in cheek.

“There wasn’t any sort of process [during the game's creation] where we considered ripping off someone’s head and shitting down the neck or something like that. It was all in the name of fun.”

Now, no matter how you slice it, this controversy indeed has led Bulletstorm into the cross-hairs of news media’s scrutiny and this would definitely effect the game once it releases this February 22 (US) and February 25 (EU) for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.