A Fantastic Fantasy
Final Fantasy XIII quickly became the best-selling game of the long-running series. And seeing the stunning graphics, scorching battles and cool story, we can see why.
Report Shows Emerging Markets Getting Ready For Games
With a substantial addressable market, estimated at 40 per cent of the world’s population, and strong games retail growth from many of its individual country markets, emerging market opportunities within the PAL sales region are of increasing commercial interest to games publishers. The latest report from Screen Digest – ‘Emerging Markets for Video Games’ – […]
Sam & Max: Devil’s Playhouse Ships
The curtain rises today in Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse with the premiere of the first episode, entitled The Penal Zone, on PC, Mac, and PlayStation Network, exclusively for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system. Telltale’s landmark series returns for the biggest, best looking, most bizarre installment yet as the dog and rabbit […]
Astro Headset Named Official MLG Gear
For the third consecutive season, ASTRO Gaming, creator of premium video gaming equipment for professional gamers, has been named Official Licensed Headset of Major League Gaming (MLG). Starting this year, the award-winning A40 headset and the patent-pending Dolby-powered ASTRO MixAmp, a stand-alone amplifier that seamlessly blends voice and game audio in surround sound, will be […]
MLB 2K10 Predicts Phillies World Series Win
2K Sports announced today the final results from its official Major League Baseball 2K10 season simulation, which crowns the Philadelphia Phillies as World Series champions in a projected 4-1 series victory over the Boston Red Sox. The Phillies' double-play combination of Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley proved to be too much for Josh Beckett, Jonathan […]
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Gets New Map
A new multiplayer map has been released today for the international FPS hit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. It is the first of three new maps that are to be released over the next few weeks. The map, named 'close combat' is a compact game location featuring a warehouse of containers in the Jupiter factory locale. […]
2K Announces Rebirth Of XCOM Series
2K Games announced today that XCOM,the re-imagining of one of gaming’s most storied and beloved franchises,is currently in development at 2K Marin, the studio behind the multi-million unit selling BioShock 2.Currently in development exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC, XCOM combines the strategic core of the […]
Tor Publishing Dead Space Novel
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC-the largest publisher of science fiction in the world-and Visceral Games, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced Dead Space: Martyr (A Tor Trade Paperback; $14.99; July 2010), the first novel based on the award-winning Dead Space videogame franchise. Dead Space: Martyr delves into […]
Episodes From Liberty City Ships
Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce the highly anticipated The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony are now available for download on PlayStationNetwork and Games for Windows-LIVE, and at retail stores everywhere as part of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City. […]
PopCap Hires Habermann As CTO
PopCap Games, maker of some of the world’s most popular video games, today announced that it has hired Frits Habermann, a longtime technology industry veteran and Adobe technology pioneer, as the company's new Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Habermann joins PopCap after 20 years at Adobe, most recently as VP of Core Technologies, where he managed […]