by Rainier on June 25, 2008 @ 9:42 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race, becoming a global civilization and choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade. Since the Spore Creature Creator was released earlier this week EA revealed that fans have created and shared more than one million creatures using the Creature Creator in the first week of availability.
by Rainier on June 19, 2008 @ 2:26 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race, becoming a global civilization and choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade. Since the Spore Creature Creator was released earlier this week EA revealed that fans have made 250,000 creatures, roughly 1,000 new additions per minute.
by Rainier on June 17, 2008 @ 3:10 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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EA's
The Sims Carnival website has entered open beta, now with added content, features and new game creation options. This games destination website has hundreds of games of all kinds and creators are adding more every day. There is bound to be a game that you love -- and if not, you can make it!
by Rainier on March 5, 2008 @ 10:22 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Want God of War boxers, a Ratchet & Clank bag, Resistance Fall of Man headwear, Heavenly Sword accessories or a Little Big Planet hoodie? SCEA has signed an agreement with four companies to manufacture apparel and accessory for various PlayStation brands and game franchises.
by Rainier on Feb. 20, 2008 @ 7:50 p.m. PST | Filed under
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During the keynote address at this year's GDC, Microsoft promised to soon allow Xbox LIVE members to play, rate and share community-created games, introducing a new, open distribution service quickly doubling the size of the X360 game library.
by Rainier on Feb. 19, 2008 @ 9:22 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Disney Online announced the creation of a new team that will focus on building, operating and publishing an expansive line-up of games, virtual worlds and online social communities, Disney Online Studios, lead by newly appointed senior vice president Steve Parkis.
by Rainier on Dec. 21, 2007 @ 3:26 p.m. PST | Filed under
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One of the most anticipated UT3 features was the possibility of allowing PS3 gamers to import new community content/mods on their consoles. While user themselves still
can't "cook" the content until the official tools are ready,
Epic decided to pitch in themselves and pre-cook four new user-created maps, and a mutator. Download the files, transfer them from PC to PS3 by a supported removable media type (memory card, USB drive, etc.) and then select it from the Community/My Content/Import Mod game menu.
by Judy on July 11, 2007 @ 12:55 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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NCsoft today announced an exclusive game development deal with Sony that provides for NCsoft to create several online games for Sony's PlayStation platforms, including PS3 and PSP, accessible through PlayStation Network.
by Rainier on June 21, 2007 @ 9:11 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Race Driver: Create & Race has been designed from the ground up for NDS and lets players thrash the most formidable sports cars through closely-fought races on the world’s most prestigious circuits… and then lets players create their very own circuits with a full track construction kit.
by Rainier on April 18, 2007 @ 9:37 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Race Driver: Create & Race has been designed from the ground up for Nintendo DS and lets players thrash the most formidable sports cars through closely-fought races on the world’s most prestigious circuits… and then lets players create their very own circuits with a full track construction kit.
by Rainier on April 16, 2007 @ 9:05 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Microsoft and the New York Television Festival today announced the Xbox Live Originals contest, granting aspiring television producers the opportunity to create a pilot that could be chosen for the first original series developed specifically for Xbox Live.
by Rainier on Feb. 12, 2007 @ 8:43 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Virgin Games and Game Domain International announce the completion of the world’s first tests on A World of My Own, a 3D Virtual PC games world platform, paving the way for a lucrative new market in the $25 billion games industry.
by Rainier on Feb. 8, 2007 @ 12:18 p.m. PST | Filed under
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S2 Games today announced a Create-a-Map contest, which will see contestants designing a map concept for its upcoming MMO Savage 2: A Tortured Soul. The winner will have his map included in the final version and receive a Nintendo Wii, as well as a production credit in the game.
by Rainier on Oct. 23, 2006 @ 10:44 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Pandemic Studios announced today the creation of a 2nd development team at its Brisbane, Australia studios. Pandemic is poised to build on the success of its Australian operation, which has grown over its six year history from a dozen to nearly one hundred employees.
by Rainier on Oct. 20, 2006 @ 12:51 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Beginning Nov. 3, 2006 with the launch of the second season of The History Channel series Shootout!, Kuma will release video games online simultaneously with upcoming Shootout! television episodes, allowing audience members to watch the show and then live the historical event by playing a 3D game re-creation of the episode.
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2006 @ 6:05 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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2K Sports announced an innovative new feature, 2K Reelmaker, for NBA 2K7 on the Xbox 360, allowing fans to create their own unique video highlight reels from saved replays in NBA 2K7 and share them on Xbox Live. 2K Reelmaker is available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 400 Microsoft Points.
by Rainier on Aug. 4, 2006 @ 11:27 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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EA has released a demo featuring the Create-A-Sim tool , letting you design unique and diverse Sims that will be playable in The Sims 2 and sharable with your friends (thanks 3DGamers).
by Rainier on June 6, 2006 @ 4:45 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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ATI announced today that it is working with middleware provider Havok to drive physics on its latest GPUs. Using Havok FX, developers can enable more convincing environments that include richer, more detailed explosions, smoke, debris, fluids, and cloth by combining the rendering of two ATI graphics cards, with a third devoted to modeling the environment.
NCsoft announced an exclusive game development deal with Sony that provides for NCsoft to create several online games for Sony's PlayStation platforms, including PS3 and PSP, accessible through PlayStation Network.
The announcement was made today at the E3 Media and Business Summit taking place in Santa Monica, California.
Although company officials did not divulge any details regarding the names or types of games in development, NCsoft officials did say the games would be created from both existing intellectual properties (IP) owned by NCsoft, as well as new IP.
"This is a great step forward for online gaming," said Geoff Heath, CEO of NCsoft
by Rainier on Dec. 19, 2005 @ 1:28 p.m. PST | Filed under
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ALTAR games, Black Element Software and Bohemia Interactive Studio, three independent game developers, announced the creation of the Independent DEvelopers Association today. The point of the association is to give indie developers a better change to compete with big publishers by combining resources.
by Rainier on Oct. 11, 2005 @ 1:13 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Microsoft and RealNetworks today announced three agreements valued at $761 million to RealNetworks to settle their antitrust case and create a new partnership to innovate and promote consumer choices in digital music and games, including offering RealNetworks' digital games through Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade.
by Rainier on Sept. 21, 2005 @ 8:20 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Agetec is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated arrival of RPG Maker 3, the latest title within its Designer Series. Developed by Enterbrain and powered by the PS2, RPG Maker 3 gives players the capability of bringing their own fantasy-world video games to life.
by Judy on Feb. 11, 2005 @ 10:58 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Today, Ubisoft announced the creation of the Ubisoft Campus in Montreal, a training institute which will offer a series of college and university level training programs in the key video game development fields.
by Judy on Jan. 7, 2005 @ 11:09 a.m. PST | Filed under
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In anticipation of the release of Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich in April, Digital Jesters & Focus Home Interactive are asking fans to devise their very own comic strips and win some amazing prizes at the same time. What do you have to do? Simply take your favourite Freedom Force character, or even your own hero, and create a comic strip. If drawing isn't your thing fear not, as comic strips can be created with photos of your friends to make a photo story. You can add speech bubbles to devise the plot.
by Judy on Dec. 1, 2004 @ 11:02 a.m. PST | Filed under
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This small modification enables you to start servers in the newly released Half-Life 2 Deathmatch by defining player numbers, server password, server name, and so on (
thanks Andy). Read more for download links ...
