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“Hardcore violent” Suicide Squad game in the works

Acclaimed DC Comics’ scribe Geoff Johns let an interesting and unexpected tidbit slip at a San Diego Comic Con panel, saying a “hardcore violent” Suicide Squad videogame is coming.

There are also reports that a Suicide Squad movie is coming, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see a game released to coincide with that.

Opinion: The necessity of casual and hardcore gaming terms

Companies must have a laserbeam-like concentration when marketing its games to an audience or risk losing millions of dollars. Knowing who your audience is the key to any business who provides a service to the public. Without this knowledge, a company could lose millions of dollars. By labeling a game as casual and marketing it as such, all parties involved stand to make a profit. Those profits can be pumped back into the company to fund big budget hardcore game for their other audience.

Pachter chimes in on “Wii HD” rumors

Following recent speculation that Nintendo is currently working on a high definition Wii for release “by 2009,” Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter has expressed his support for the idea, revealing that he is “absolutely convinced” a “Wii HD” is in the works.

Pachter explained in a recent AFP news article article that he believes it is essential for Nintendo to overcome the Wii’s lacking hardware if the company truly wishes to fulfil its promise of a console for everybody, including core gamers — many of whom have been disappointed with the company’s…

AOL, Associated Press poll reveals gamer habits

According to a recent poll conducted by AOL Games and Associated Press, about 81% of all children (aged 4-17) play videogames regularly, while the statistic for adults is 38%. And lest male gamers take all the credit, out of the total number of adult gamers, a full 45% are female. The poll broke down into more »