Homebrew News

Originally Posted by wraggster

Warner Bros Interactive has announced that Netherrealm Studios' Mortal Kombat reboot has sold three million copies since its release in April, which makes it the biggest-selling fighting game of the year. Creative director Ed Boon said: "All of us at Netherrealm Studios are very excited that players have embraced Mortal Kombat. The game was a labour of love for us and we could not be more pleased with its performance."

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/mortal-...ells-3-million

Originally Posted by wraggster

Rockstar and Take-Two's Grand Theft Auto IV has shipped more than 22 million units since release in April 2008, according to company chairman Strauss Zelnick.
Speaking at the ThinkEquity Annual Growth conference, reported by IndustryGamers, he noted that the Grand Theft Auto franchise has in total now shipped more than 114 million units.
Shipments of Take-Two's Midnight Club series have reached 18.5 million, NBA 2K 17 million and Red Dead Redemption 12.5 million. Strategy series Civilization

...

Originally Posted by wraggster

Independent developer tinyBuild has released its flash game No Time To Explain on file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
As a special bonus, the Pirate Bay version of the game features many of the character in distictive pirate hats.
"We thought it'd be funny to leak a pirate version ourselves which is literally all about pirates and pirate hats," creator Alex Nichiporchik told TorrentFreak.
"I mean, some people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make

...

Originally Posted by wraggster

The tenth Final Fantasy was released for PlayStation 2 in 2001, and Square Enix producer Shinji Hashimoto took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show press conference to announce a tenth anniversary HD remake for PlayStation 3 and Vita.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/final-f...make-announced

Originally Posted by wraggster

Hideo Kojima took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show conference earlier today to confirm that Metal Gear Solids 2 and 3 will be released for PlayStation Vita as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Edition. Zone Of The Enders and its sequel are also headed to Sony's PSP successor, with both collections due next year. Kojima also announced an all-new game, to be built using his Fox Engine, that will be released for both PS3 and Vita.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/metal-g...nders-set-vita