Australia’s media and entertainment market is on track for compound annual growth of 4.1 per cent over the next five years led by interactive games and subscription television, says a PricewaterhouseCoopers Outlook. However, it is exposure to the fast-emerging Asian markets that could prove crucial to the health of Australian media companies in coming years. […]
Gazillion Entertainment, a developer, publisher and operator of browser-based games, has revealed that two free-to-play massively multiplayer online games – the kids’ game Marvel Super Hero Squad Online and the online action RPG Fortune Online – will be launched across Europe by ProSiebenSat.1 Digital, a division of ProSiebenSat.1 Group, the German media corporation. With this […]
While Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will sell 37 million consoles this year, consumers will buy 52 million connected TVs from the likes of Samsung, Sony and LG. “The market for connected devices – connected TVs, connected Blu-ray players, games consoles, media-streaming devices and hybrid set-top boxes – is continuing to grow globally, as consumers seek […]
Spain’s Telefónica has reportedly signed an agreement with Microsoft to turn the Xbox console into a TV set-top-box for the distribution of TV services. The president of Microsoft Spain, Maria Garaña, acknowledged that her company has reached an agreement with “a Spanish operator” to develop the project that would be up and running within a […]
OnLive, the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games specialist, has confirmed its cloud gaming platform will launch in the UK this autumn. Gamers in the UK can visit the onlive website to complete a free sign-up process and reserve their unique OnLive Player Tag, for OnLive play in the UK and internationally. BT has exclusive […]
Sony is struggling to move beyond a high-profile and costly attack on its PlayStation Network that put at risk the personal details of more than 100 million customers. Now the company has faced new security and has taken down a website that allowed users of PlayStation Network and Qriocity, an online entertainment service, to reset […]
The deluge of gamers trying to get back on to the PlayStation Network has caused problems for Sony. The recently restored service had to be taken offline again briefly because of the sheer number of users trying to change their passwords. Sony was forced to close the network a month ago when hackers gained access […]
Sony is planning to restore its online PlayStation Network (PSN) in full by the end of May. It admitted the company had missed a self-imposed deadline of restarting a partial service by the weekend. Sony said it continues to investigate the case, after personal details from 100 million accounts were compromised. The company had originally […]
Hackers may have stolen the data of another 25 million accounts in a second massive security breach at Sony. The latest revelation comes a day after it announced measures to prevent another cyberattack like that which hit PSN and Qriocity two weeks ago. Sony admitted its Online Entertainment PC games network had been hacked on […]
Two Way Media says it has done a “development and funding deal” from the Ingenious Media investment fund and advisory. The funds are said to be earmarked for social gaming investments but as Ingenious owns the majority of TwoWay after a 2007 deal it amounts to the provision of further working capital. Two Way already […]