Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online announced the details of the fourth free content update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Book 12: The Ashen Wastes continues the epic story of The Lord of the Rings Online, adds substantial new features that provide players ability to truly personalize their heroes and an inventive new region that blends the challenge of a 12-player raid with the action of player-vs-player combat. Book 12: The Ashen Wastes will be available to subscribers of The Lord of the Rings Online on February 13, 2007 in North America and February … Continue reading Lord Of The Rings Online Expands →

Brighter Minds Media, LLC (Brighter Minds) is thrilled to announce the start of a new partnership with top game developer Gamelab. Brighter Minds will publish and distribute a selection of Gamelab's hit titles for the retail market. The collaboration will combine Gamelab's pioneering development skill and Brighter Minds' expertise in software packaging and distribution to bring creative new game ideas to retail locations throughout the country. "At Brighter Minds we have worked hard to establish ourselves as a leader in retail distribution for the casual games market, and Gamelab has been a leader in the field of innovative game development … Continue reading Brighter Minds Partners With Gamelab →

BreakAway, a leading developer of entertainment games and game-based technology products for modeling, simulation, training and visualization today announced that BreakAway's mōsbē desktop development platform will be used to develop experimentation scenarios to support U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) and U.S. Northern Command, Noble Resolve 08, a series of events designed to enhance homeland defense measures and military support during natural or man-made disasters. Using mōsbē's robust simulation engine, development tools and newly integrated incident command capabilities, USJFCOM will be the first customer to use mōsbē to create incident command rehearsal scenarios. The scenarios will be used to train first-responder … Continue reading MOSBE Desktop Selected For Military's Noble Resolve 08 →

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the first public demonstration showing realistic mobile game benchmarks based on the emerging OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard, running on cell phone hardware. In collaboration with Futuremark, a respected developer of PC and handheld performance benchmarks, Broadcom will demonstrate the ability of the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard to deliver a significantly enhanced gaming experience on mobile devices when powered with the innovative VideoCore(R) III multimedia processor. The enhanced mobile gaming demonstrations, utilizing Futuremark performance benchmarks and based on the Broadcom(R) BCM2727 VideoCore III multimedia … Continue reading Broadcom Demonsting Mobile Game Benchmarks →

Namco Networks, a leading publisher of mobile games and entertainment for mass-market consumers including top selling arcade classics PAC-MAN, Ms. PAC-MAN, Galaga and Dig-Dug, today announced the availability of its latest arcade classics Mr. Do! and Mr. Do!'s Castle on mobile. In Namco Networks' update to the arcade classic Mr. Do!, players are challenged to help Mr. Do! collect cherries for his pie-tossing clown act. Players must clear the field of cherries while avoiding wild animals such as Red Rovers, Munchie Monsters or Alpha Monsters that have escaped from the traveling circus caravans. The mobile version of Mr. Do! includes … Continue reading Mr Do! Goes Mobile →

Sweet Spot Productions has been launched in Hollywood as a new, full-service marketing agency specializing in conceiving, developing and producing consumer and trade campaigns promoting feature films and videogames. Sweet Spot specializes in producing film trailers, teasers, TV and radio spots, Internet webisodes and cross-platform/new media marketing. Don Scotti and Joe Takats, co-founders of Sweet Spot Productions, made the announcement. Currently, Sweet Spot is producing a special presentation that will be seen during the Feb. 24th Oscars telecast. Regarding the formation of his new company, Scotti said, "This is a very challenging time to be in the business of producing … Continue reading Sweet Spot Productions Founded →

Valve today announced that Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital entertainment, has surpassed 15 million accounts and realized year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season. The year also marked the debut of the Steam Community and launch of several best-selling and critically-acclaimed titles such as Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, and The Orange Box. Throughout 2008 more Community features will be introduced to support existing games as well as new titles such as Valve's Left 4 Dead. Also new for Steam in 2008 is Steamworks, giving game developers access to game features and services available … Continue reading Stream Reaches 15 Million Accounts →

2K Play, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, today announced that Go, Diego, Go!: Safari Rescue for the Wii home video game system and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system will be available at retailers in North America beginning on February 12, 2008. The title represents 2K Play's first Wii game engineered specifically for preschoolers and is based on extensive Nickelodeon in-home research that focused on how to best match the abilities and needs of younger children with the capabilities of the platform. To celebrate the game's launch, 2K … Continue reading 2K Play, Nickelodeon Launch Preschooler Games →

Speedball 2 – Tournament, the ferocious and extreme sports game for PC, is available in stores today. In a violent future, two heavily armoured teams fight a vicious battle for possession of a steel ball. Take control of a brutal squad of athletes and punch your way through the opposition, pounding players to the ground as you go, using any malicious tactics to win the game. State-of-the-art 3D graphics enhance the brutal gameplay as the adrenaline races and your customised team of ‘speedballers' battle with the opposition. The extreme online multiplayer action lets you face your friends, or enemies online … Continue reading Speedball 2 – Tournament Ships →

Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that they have acquired the Major League Eating (MLE) license for interactive platforms. Major League Eating, which oversees all top eating events in the nation including the July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, counts among its members Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese eating phenomenon, and American Joey Chestnut, current champion of the world. "Major League Eaters aren't just elite athletes," says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "They are the people who built America. Or at least the competitive eating part of America. And I am deeply honored that the International Federation of Competitive Eating and … Continue reading Mastiff Gets Major League Eating License →