by Dustin Chadwell on Jan. 15, 2009 @ 3:50 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Fun for kids of all ages, Family Party: 30 Great Games offers a wide variety of fun and addictive party games for up to 4 players featuring everything from track n’ field, to playground games, to brain games and more.
by Rainier on Dec. 22, 2008 @ 2:49 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Last week, EA brought its titles to the North American users of Steam, and now Europeans also have access to the same titles, such as Spore, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Mass Effect, Need for Speed Undercover and FIFA Manager 2009, with Red Alert 3, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space to follow shortly.
by Rainier on Dec. 19, 2008 @ 3:04 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Red Rocket Games was officially launched today as a new game developer focused on creating bite-size digital entertainment and casual games, co-founded by former GameFly VP Jung Suh, and Scott Yu, formerly a technical art director at Electronic Arts.
by Rainier on Dec. 4, 2008 @ 11:31 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Alternativa is a classic point & click adventure game based on the original sci-fi/cyber-punk script which is composed of a number of shorter stories that lead us through the lives of individual characters as well as the fictional world of the future.
by Rainier on Nov. 26, 2008 @ 5:52 p.m. PST | Filed under
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The
THQ Collector's Pack, which includes one dozen titles from top franchises such as Company of Heroes, Titan Quest, and Dawn of War, is now available via Steam for just $99.99 — a savings of more than $100. In addition to the THQ Pack,
Titan Quest Gold (the complete Titan Quest collection) is available at a 50% savings through Monday, Dec. 1, 2008.
by Rainier on Nov. 18, 2008 @ 8:41 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Good Old Games announced an agreement with Epic Games, Inc. that will bring several titles in the renowned studio’s Unreal series to GOG.com, DRM-free of course.
by Rainier on Nov. 12, 2008 @ 2:09 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Red Eagle Games is launching its new Los Angeles-based video game publishing studio with the rights to one of the most popular and beloved fantasy epics of all time, Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series.
by Rainier on Oct. 21, 2008 @ 6:13 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Fun for kids of all ages, Family Party: 30 Great Games offers a wide variety of fun and addictive party games for up to 4 players featuring everything from track n’ field, to playground games, to brain games and more.
by Rainier on Oct. 8, 2008 @ 5:15 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Fun for kids of all ages, Family Party: 30 Great Games offers a wide variety of fun and addictive party games for up to 4 players featuring everything from track n’ field, to playground games, to brain games and more.
by Rainier on Oct. 7, 2008 @ 11:22 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Microsoft unveiled details about a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional gaming research alliance that will provide the fundamental scientific evidence to support games as learning tools for math and science subjects among middle-school students.
by Rainier on Oct. 3, 2008 @ 9:30 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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America’s Video Game Expo is expanding the scope of its exhibit include a new game industry conference, the ‘East Coast Games Summit’. Designed to serve the professional colleagues in the game industry, as well as those interested in starting a career in games, the Summit offers programming for all VGXPO attendees.
by Rainier on Sept. 25, 2008 @ 7:58 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Gears of War 2 picks up six months after the events of the original, thrusting players back into humankind's epic battle for survival against a nightmarish force of underground creatures known as the Locust Horde. Starting Sept. 29 students will have the chance to play GoW 2 early during the 6 weeks BEST BUY G3 Tour, hitting colleges and universities across the country.
by Rainier on Sept. 23, 2008 @ 9:24 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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A recent video game habits survey fielded by PoshMama, a women exclusive online community, revealed that many women would rather play video games than catch up on sleep.
by Rainier on Sept. 2, 2008 @ 6:58 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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A new “Games Market in Korea” study finds that approximately 67% of Korean users in their 20s purchase paid digital content, with one of the fastest growing segments being casual games, that are free-to-play, easy-to-learn and can be played in “micro-slices” of time of ten minutes or less. Current forecast indicates the online games market in South Korea will exceed $1.7 billion by 2011, driven by new releases and an ingrained gaming culture.
by Rainier on Aug. 29, 2008 @ 2:06 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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SouthPeak Games today announced its plans for the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle which starts today until Aug. 31, 2008, where it will show off such titles as Two Worlds: The Temptation, X-Blades, Ninjatown, Raven Squad, Igor, and the first public showing of the upcoming XBLA racer, Things on Wheels.
by Rainier on Aug. 15, 2008 @ 6:16 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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SouthPeak Games announced the games it will be showing at the Leipzig Games Convention (20-24 August, 2008). A wide range of games will be both demonstrated and available for hands-on, across a range of platforms and genres, such as Raven Squad, X-Blades, Ninjatown, Two Worlds: The Temptation and more ...
by Rainier on Aug. 15, 2008 @ 12:02 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Age of Conan is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game that brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan.
by Rainier on Aug. 12, 2008 @ 2:07 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Gears of War 2 picks up six months after the events of the original, thrusting players back into humankind's epic battle for survival against a nightmarish force of underground creatures known as the Locust Horde. Due to the game's violence GoW 2 will not be sold in Germany, and therefor Microsoft has decided to
not show the game at the Leipzig Games Convention later this month.
by Rainier on Aug. 11, 2008 @ 10:53 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Bionic Commando Rearmed is a makeover of the classic 8-bit game originally released 20 years ago, but with updated visuals, new weapons, online rankings, a reworked musical score and the addition of a 2-player co-op mode. Fans who pre-order Fable II will be given free access to download the
Fable II Pub Games, or you can buy them for 800 MS points.
by Rainier on Aug. 9, 2008 @ 5:06 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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EA unveiled the games it will feature at the Games Convention in Leipzig,Germany later this month. The list of more than 20 titles includes titles such as MySims Kingdom, FaceBreaker, Dead Space, Harry Potter, Crysis Warhead, Lord of the Rings, Madden, Skate It, Mercenaries 2 and plenty more.
by Rainier on Aug. 6, 2008 @ 3:31 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Seize the moment and step into the glamorous life of a high stakes gambler! Phantom EFX announced its lineup of Reel Deal casino video games: Reel Deal Slots Blackbeard's Revenge, Reel Deal Casino Millionaire's Club and Reel Deal Card Games '09.
by Rainier on July 29, 2008 @ 4:05 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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EA's Q1 2009 financial result shows that the company doubled its revenue ($804 million compared to last year's $395 million), mainly driven by Battlefield: Bad Company and UEFA EURO 2008, and Rock Band, while Boom Blox so far sold 450k copies. The investors conference call had less positive news as EA has decided to delay its free-to-play online FPS Battlefield Heroes in order to give the devs more time to implement community features, as well as Tiberium, its FPS set in the C&C universe, from its scheduled late 2008 until fiscal 2009, which runs anywhere from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010. However sports fans will be delighted to know that next year Madden, NBA Live and NCAA Football are coming back to the PC with expanded online features.
by Rainier on July 29, 2008 @ 9:34 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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JoWooD/DreamCatcher are expanding their German distribution agreement with The Games Company top bring TCG's NDS titles (Military Vehicles, Matchstick Puzzle by DS, Aquarium by DS and Fantasy Aquarium) to high-profile territories such as North America, South America, Spain, Portugal and UK.
by Rainier on July 23, 2008 @ 5:11 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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EA has signed with Hollywood talent and literary agency UTA for representation in motion pictures and television to help it develop a comprehensive strategy for moving its games into the realm of large-budget motion pictures and TV series.
by Rainier on July 23, 2008 @ 2:45 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Stan Lee joins former game designer and current comic writer Brian Reed, along with developers from Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion, for a behind-the-scenes discussion of the creative process, story development and technology used to bring comic book heroes to life in the most advanced Super Hero games ever.