Witch's Yarn Story Game Launches
Mousechief (www.mousechief.com) releases a new kind of casual entertainment. The Witch’s Yarn offers an innovative system for playing with the characters and events which make up a lighthearted melodrama. Easy to play, one minute after starting the game, readers will be ably immersed in the story. Meet Wednesday, a witch who foreswore magic for the […]
Radical Gets New COO
Radical Entertainment is pleased to announce the appointment of Kelly Zmak to the newly created positions of Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, Product Development. Zmak will report directly to Radical Entertainment President Ian Wilkinson and be responsible for all facets of the company's strategic plan. Zmak, who has nearly 20 years experience in […]
Vivendi Signs With Empire For FlatOut 2
Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) and Empire Interactive (Empire), a U.K. computer games developer and publisher listed on AIM, today announced an exclusive agreement by which VU Games will market and distribute in North America, Empire’s multi-platform destructive racing game FlatOut 2. FlatOut 2, one of Empire’s key frontline titles, builds on the success of […]
Blizzard Gears Up For BlizzCon
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today unveiled the BlizzCon website (www.blizzcon.com), presenting many new details about its upcoming gaming convention. Set to take place on October 28 and 29 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, BlizzCon will celebrate Blizzard's games and the players who have made them so popular around the world. BlizzCon will be […]
Fable Expansion Coming To Xbox, PC
Microsoft Game Studios announced today that Fable: The Lost Chapters, currently in development for Windows and slated to release this September, will also be available in late Fall for Xbox. Fable: The Lost Chapters builds upon the original best-selling Fable with loads of new content including new regions, quests and enhanced story elements that further […]
Game Savant Fights Breast Cancer
Game Savant (www.gamesavant.com) is very proud to announce that, with the help of their customers, they will be joining the fight against breast cancer. $2 of every sale made during the month of July will automatically be donated to aid breast cancer research. Game Savant members will have their names automatically added to the official […]
British Chipper Gets Clipped
A 22-year-old Cambridge graduate today has become the first ever individual in the UK to be convicted for the illegal modification of video games consoles at Caerphilly Magistrates Court. The offender had developed a new method of modifying Microsoft Xbox consoles, discovered in October 2004 by ELSPA’s Internet Investigator, who then informed Caerphilly County Borough […]
Moments of Pause
Our London-based European Correspondent Chella Ramanan is taking a break in the wake of terrorist attacks there. Our thoughts and prayers are with her, and all of England.
Vivendi Gets Unreal Engine
Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) and Epic Games today announced a studio-wide agreement under which VU Games will license Unreal Engine 3 tools and technology for next generation console and PC game development. VU Games’ internal and external development studios are licensed to use Unreal Engine 3 technology for next generation titles, which are expected […]
EA Launches Free Soccer Game
Aim for the back of the net with EA SPORTS Web Soccer, an intense high-scoring online soccer game that will keep players passing and shooting for hours on Pogo.com. Produced by the online division at Electronic Arts' Redwood Shores studio, EA SPORTSâ„¢ Web Soccer delivers a complete soccer experience highlighted by control of a team […]