by Rainier on Feb. 16, 2006 @ 5:23 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Games Media Properties announced the first-ever World Series of Video Games, set to kick off in June 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky with four subsequent circuit events taking place throughout the year and culminating in a final event in December 2006. Grand prize is $1 Million in cash prizing, and the event will combine PC and Xbox games under standardized rules and procedures across a circuit of multiple tournaments.
by Rainier on Feb. 13, 2006 @ 11:33 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Today Ubisoft and Shaun White, snowboarding halfpipe Gold Medalist in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and six time X Games Gold Medalist, announced an exclusive worldwide agreement to create video games inspired by White's world-famous snowboarding style.
by Rainier on Feb. 13, 2006 @ 1:44 a.m. PST | Filed under
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A Canadian research team performed a study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto and concluded that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable. The researchers are also finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging.
by Rainier on Feb. 2, 2006 @ 3:02 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Indiana Democratic State Senator Vi Simpson and Republican State Senator Dennis Kruse introduced SB 135, a bill that would fine retailers who rent or sell violent and/or sexually explicit games to minors. It also would have required a sticker with an 18 age requirement to be put on violent games. Unfortunately for the senators they couldnt muster enough of their colleagues to even give it an initial vote within the deadline, which ended today, and is now consdiered dead (thanks Gamepolitics).
by Rainier on Jan. 26, 2006 @ 3:38 p.m. PST | Filed under
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A survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates reveals 35% of American parents play computer and video games, out of which 80% claim that they play video games with their children, and two-thirds (66%) feel that playing games has brought their families closer together.
by Rainier on Jan. 20, 2006 @ 8:51 a.m. PST | Filed under
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The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is proud to present Video Games Live, an immersive concert featuring music from the biggest video games of all time, as its closing night performance.
by Rainier on Jan. 11, 2006 @ 9:03 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Evergreen Events announced the upcoming Sex in Video Games Conference: Exploring the Business of Digital Erotic Entertainment to be held June 8 and 9, 2006 at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, California. The conference is the first of its type and will be an annual event.
Guinness World Records: The Videogame, developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, will offer players of all ages the opportunity not only to observe and marvel at the most remarkable activities in the world, but actually to participate in them.
Guinness World Records: The Videogame is full of amazing world records, giving players the opportunity to become a real world record breaker! The game’s quick-fire action challenges can be played solo, in teams, or in competitive multi-player groups.
Accessible game mechanics enable anyone to grow the longest fingernails ever seen; to walk a tightrope across the Grand Canyon;
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
E3 - Pre - E3 2003
BAM! Entertainment® announced today that its video game Wallace & Gromit(TM) in Project Zoo will be on display in the Nintendo® booth at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), May 14-16, 2003. Created by Aardman, the popular clay characters Wallace & Gromit have starred in several half-hour films that have won more than 45 international awards including two Oscars®.
Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo is the first video game product to feature the popular British characters and is due to release on Nintendo GameCube this fall.
"Having Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo chosen to be part of Nintendo's booth is
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
E3 - E3 2004 May 12th
Athens 2004TM, The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games has been designed to capture the spirit and emotion of the Olympic Games while providing the most detailed and comprehensive Olympic licensed video game ever made. Athens 2004TM allows users to compete in four Arcade and eight Competition Game Modes ranging from Practice to the Official Decathlon and Heptathlon combined events, while choosing one of 64 countries and 800 different characters. Athens 2004TM features some of the Olympic Games' most challenging sports, including Athletics (Track & Field), Aquatics (Swimming), Gymnastics, Shooting, Archery, Weightlifting and Equestrian. Players will be able to
When Manhattan is once again overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, players will take on the role of a new recruit joining the famous Ghostbusters team.
Like the films before it, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis will return to script and event-driven storyline for the video game that will lead the player through the trials and tribulations of the world's leading paranormal ghost busting team. Ghostbusters The Video Game will create a totally unique experience and gameplay environment that authentically recreates the time period of the film, expanding the lore and supernatural events that seemingly plague New York
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
E3 - Post - E3 2006
Genre: Action
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Tiburon
Release Date: Q4 2006
The first thing I thought of when I saw Superman Returns, frankly, is that certain people are going to have an absolute ball with it.
The second thing I thought of, regrettably, was Superman's video game record. With the arguable exception of the arcade quarter-muncher, no game based on the Superman license has ever aspired to or reached anything better than utter mediocrity.
Like Spider-Man before it, Superman Returns is a free-roaming action game set in 80 square miles of city. As Superman, you've got
by Rainier on Dec. 23, 2005 @ 8:24 a.m. PST | Filed under
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new California state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying a lawsuit challenging the measure was likely to prevail on grounds of free speech.
by Judy on Dec. 14, 2005 @ 1:03 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Video game sales dropped 18 percent to nearly $700 million, as consumers saved and waited for the launch of Microsoft's next-generation Xbox 360 gaming console and as overall hardware unit sales dropped.
by Rainier on Dec. 2, 2005 @ 5:53 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Back in May Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich introduced a bill to ban violent video games, which was then later approved and had to go in effect January 1st. On July 25, 2005, a lawsuit was filed challenging the law, claiming it violated the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. Today, Federal District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in Chicago, IL agreed with the plaintiffs and ruled that the video game restriction law is unconstitutional, and issued an order permanently enjoining the law's enforcement. You can read the full, 53 page, ruling
right here...
by Rainier on Nov. 30, 2005 @ 3:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
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This is starting to get boring! This holiday season, NIMF says it has found a bloody new wrinkle to hate: cannibalism. Compiling a list of 12 titles to avoid, F.E.A.R. and Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse are apparently their latest targets. Sen. Joe Lieberman says cannibalism is dangerous to your children's health. Really?
by Rainier on Nov. 24, 2005 @ 10:50 a.m. PST | Filed under
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To better prepare parents buying gifts for their kids, especially with the holiday season coming up Family Media Guide has prepared a list of the Top 10 Most Violent Video Games released so far this year. Trained video game analysts capture and document instances of profanity, sex, violence, and substance abuse using a database-driven technology.
by Rainier on Nov. 19, 2005 @ 3:23 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, the two-hour show will air on Spike TV Saturday, December 10 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT). Capcom's Resident Evil 4 got crowned Game of the Year, as well as Best Graphics. Ubisoft's King Kong won three awards including, Best Performance by a Human -- Male for Jack Black; Best Game Based on a Movie and Best Cast, while Blizzard's World of Warcraft won four awards including Best Multiplayer Game and Best PC Game.
by Rainier on Nov. 12, 2005 @ 2:14 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Market researchers NPD Group announced that U.S. retail sales of video games in October fell to $365 million, down 24 percent from a year earlier, console game sales were around $294 million, while sales of handheld games were about $71 million.
by Rainier on Nov. 9, 2005 @ 7:08 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Today a federal judge put a temporary hold on the violent video game law banning sales of violent video games to minors which was to go in effect December 1, 2005. The Entertainment Software Association ands several other organizations challenged the law and Judge George Caram from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted a preliminary injunction stating that the state had failed to show what harm could result from selling games to minors. Instead the judge claimed stifling free speech could cause more obvious harm.
by Rainier on Oct. 27, 2005 @ 12:54 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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On October 25 Florida state Rep. Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla introduced a bill that would ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, a near clone of legislation recently signed into law by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who himself is featured in several video games based on his action film roles.
by Rainier on Oct. 25, 2005 @ 7:36 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Spike TV announced today that its Video Game Awards 2005 will be hos(t)ed by actor and producer Samuel L. Jackson, who was a winner at last year’s show for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vin Diesel, The Rock, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, Carmen Electra, Xzibit and Ozzy Osbourne, amongst others, are also set to appear at the third annual awards event.
by Rainier on Oct. 18, 2005 @ 8:54 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) and Entertainment Software Association (ESA) filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to overturn the recently passed California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.
by Rainier on Oct. 12, 2005 @ 12:03 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Interactive Entertainment Merchant's Association (IEMA)'s president Hal Halpin reacted today to the recent signing by govenor Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of the A.B. 1179 bill making it illegal to sell Mature rated games to minor.
by Judy on Oct. 10, 2005 @ 12:09 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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U.S. retail sales of console video games fell 20 percent in September, but are seen rebounding at year-end -- the traditionally strong holiday season when Microsoft also will launch its new game player, an analyst said on Monday.