In a further effort to reduce losses, Midway has closed its Austin studio, cancelled some more games and culled its workforce by 25 percent.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/12/17/midway-closes-studio-cancels-games/1 - 17th Dec 2008Midway, which lost $78 million in 2006, has announced escalating losses for last year, but remains hopeful for the future.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/03/07/midway_lost_100_million_in_2007/1 - 7th Mar 2008It's been revealed that publisher-in-trouble Midway may be trying to get rid of the Mortal Kombat franchise in an effort to stay afloat.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/03/02/midway-selling-mortal-kombat/1 - 2nd Mar 2009Midway has, despite flagging sales and struggling finances, announced a new Mortal Kombat game.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/01/27/midway-making-new-mortal-kombat/1 - 27th Jan 2009Midway has revealed that the New York Stock Exchange has warned the company that its stock may soon be de-listed.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/11/24/midway-stock-faces-delisting/1 - 24th Nov 2008Harvey Smith, designer of games like Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows, has left Midway Austin after being critical of his own project, BlackSite: Area 51.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2007/12/03/blacksite_director_leaves_midway/1 - 3rd Dec 2007Midway's board members are now being sued by employees for corporate waste that cites disastrous financial advice as the cause.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/05/13/midway-board-sued-for-corporate-waste/1 - 13th May 2009Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will be publishing The Wheelman instead of Midway, setting the date in March.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/02/19/ubisoft-confirms-the-wheelman-for-march/1 - 19th Feb 2009Midway has said that Unreal Tournament 3 may be delayed on on the PS3, pushing the game back to a 2008 release. Or not. It isn't sure yet.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2007/10/03/ut3_delayed_until_next_year/1 - 3rd Oct 2007Advertiser pressure becomes more of an issue after EGM reveals three publishers who no longer back the mag after negative reviews.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/01/09/games_companies_refuse_to_support_egm_magazine/1 - 9th Jan 2008Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 were two of the biggest and most anticipated games this year - so why aren't they selling very well?
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2007/12/17/crysis_ut3_sales_disappoint_developers/1 - 17th Dec 2007It's just a rumour right now, but with info flying every which way at the moment it also happens to be the most solid rumour there is.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/04/18/next_mortal_kombat_game_is_mk_versus_batman_/1 - 18th Apr 2008Been polishing your keyboard in preparation for John Woo’s Stranglehold later this year? Well, now you can start doing something more productive and get your PC specced up beforehand.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2007/08/08/stranglehold_hardware_requirements_released/1 - 8th Aug 2007After rooting through top secret files and conspiracies, we come back with this: an in-depth preview of the upcoming multi-format FPS, Blacksite: Area 51.
www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2007/08/15/blacksite_area_51_preview/1 - 15th Aug 2007We've been following Unreal Tournament 3 very closely these last few months, but now it has all come to this final test. Is the game any good and does Ageia PhysX add anything? We find out. Strap yourself in - it's review time, baby!
www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2007/11/23/unreal_tournament_3/1 - 23rd Nov 2007With a new instalment just over the horizon the UT modding scene is set to explode all over again, so we go hands-on with the public beta to see what the fuss is all about and if the game can possibly live up to its ancestors.
www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2007/10/25/unreal_tournament_3_beta_impressions/1 - 25th Oct 2007Vin Diesel is the Wheelman - a badass undercover cop working in Barcelona for reasons so convoluted we can't even fathom them. On the plus side, he can do magic things with his car, like making it turn on the spot without slowing down. What else can Vin do? Read on to find out.
www.bit-tech.net/gaming/xbox-360/2009/03/27/wheelman-review/1 - 27th Mar 2009Stranglehold, the John Woo and Chow Yun Fat action game, is revealed to only be twelve hours long. The real issue however is; is 'sandboxy' a word?
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2007/07/23/stranglehold__short_and_sanboxy/1 - 23rd Jul 2007There hasn't yet been a decent action game on the Wii that can successfully harness the power of the Wiimote. Can Mortal Kombat: Armageddon be the first to manage it? Let's find out.
www.bit-tech.net/gaming/wii/2007/06/10/mortal_kombat__armageddon_on_the_wii/1 - 10th Jun 2007Midway and bit-tech.net have joined forces to bring you a fantastic competition which gives you a chance to win a custom painted UT3 case mod and one of ten copies of the full game. All you have to do is answer a simple question!
www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/12/12/win_an_unreal_tournament_3_case_mod/1 - 12th Dec 2007Midway has announced that Unreal Tournament 3 will be released on Xbox 360 a few days early in Europe.
www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/06/13/europe-to-get-ut3-xbox-360-early/1 - 13th Jun 2008Dan Boaden takes to the streets of Hong Kong with pistols akimbo and sets out to review John Woo's Stranglehold. Will he come back in one piece with good news or will the game prove more limp than a knee-capped bad guy? Find out within!
www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2007/10/07/stranglehold_pc/1 - 7th Oct 2007