America's Army Expansion Released
Competitive America's Army game players rejoice! The U.S. Army today announced that America’s Army: Special Forces (Direct Action), which has been designed with the competitive gamer in mind, is available tomorrow for download at www.americasarmy.com. Direct Action tests players' mettle in two new missions — SF Extraction and SF Dockside — and gives gamers a […]
Ponce de Leon Gets Prison Time
Serial video game pirate Dashiell Ponce de Leon was recently sentenced to three years and ten months in federal prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $1.154 million in restitution for criminal copyright infringement by the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) applauded the […]
Castlevania Gets Ship Date
Konami Digital Entertainment – America announces the official U.S. ship date of Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox as Tuesday, November 1, 2005. The newest installment in the legendary Castlevania series delivers an entirely new storyline and main character – Hector, a Devil Forgemaster who had once refined his skills under […]
Ubisoft To Walk The Dogz
Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with MTO Co., Ltd. to distribute Dogz, the first puppy simulation game to be available exclusively for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. Ubisoft will distribute Dogz worldwide, with the exception of Japan, in November of this year. […]
Buena Vista Expands Executive Team
Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG), the interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), today announced two key executive hires to help manage the company's growing video game development and publishing business worldwide. Filling the newly created positions are Raj Murari, vice president, strategic development and integration, and Mark Meyers, vice president, internal […]
Horizons Give Military Family Accounts
In an effort to provide members of the United States Armed Forces a fun and unique way to stay in contact with friends and family, Tulga Games, makers of the popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) "Horizons: Empires of Istaria," is offering a special promotion to members of the U.S. military. The special promotion […]
British Actors Invade Oblivion Game
To create the perfect tone and timbre for its upcoming epic role playing game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Bethesda Game Studios announced today an all-star voice cast of British stage and screen legends. Developed for both the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC platforms, Oblivion is one of the year's […]
Matrix Gets TalonSoft Rights
Matrix Games (www.matrixgames.com) is proud to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish the former award winning Talonsoft line of wargames. The agreement includes the rights to publish, update and modify some of the most well-respected wargames of all time. Included in this agreement is the full Battleground series of games, the Campaign […]
Laura Croft To Be 360 Star
Eidos Interactive, one of the world’s leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today formally announced that Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend is in development for both the Xbox 360T and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Delivering new gameplay content and unbelievable visuals that take full advantage of the new hardware system, Lara’s […]
Amiga Forever 2005 Ships
Cloanto released today Amiga Forever 2005, the official Amiga emulation, OS, connectivity, history and support suite, now featuring 20 GB of software, data and videos to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Amiga computer. Previous versions of Amiga Forever included more limited multimedia content on a single CD. After almost two years of work, the […]