Online Players Snooker For Champ
You might think that Everquest or World of Warcraft are the most popular online games. Well, they could be in their category, but the much simpler flash or java based internet games attract millions of secretaries and managers in order to utilize their empty minutes for throwing penguins, or playing online Snooker. Online Snooker, as […]
NC Soft Heads To Comic Convention
NCsoft Europe can today confirm its attendance at Britain’s newest comic exhibition, Comic Expo. A major new comic event in the UK, Comic Expo runs from May 14th to 15th at the British Empire & Commonwealth Exhibition Hall and the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Bristol. Comic Expo will be attended by a host of prestigious […]
Mortal Kombat TV Game Joins Prize Pool
The new JAAKS Mortal Kombat TV Game has joined the Game Industry News prize pool, courtesy of the fine folks at JAKKS Pacific. The game features all the great Mortal Kombat arcade action, yet is housed in a controller that plugs directly into your TV. It has a great number of features, including Reptile as […]
Omni To Make Guild Wars Sounds
Omni Interactive Audio (www.omniinteractiveaudio.com) – a leading full service audio production company for the video game industry – today revealed they have signed an ongoing, long-term deal to create and integrate all the sound effects for future chapters of Guild Wars, the new online role playing game developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSoft. Headed […]
Pirates Of The Caribbean To Become Game
Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG), the interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company announced today the development of new video game titles based on the highly anticipated feature film, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," scheduled for release in Summer 2006. Building on the popularity of its successful portable games business, BVG will […]
Playboy.com Moving To PSP
Playboy.com today has announced its next step in delivering digital and downloadable beauties with the launch of its newest feature "PlayboyStation Portable." Given the tremendous popularity of the new Sony PlayStation Portable, Playboy.com has created a sci-fi themed pictorial of the Cyber Girl of the Year 2005 Amy Sue Cooper that was photographed and formatted […]
Got Game Launches Squad Assault
Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced that it has reached a co-publishing agreement with Merscom LLC to bring World War II real-time strategy game "Squad Assault: Second Wave" for PC to North American retail. The game is a significantly updated, enhanced, and expanded release of the critically-acclaimed "Squad Assault: West Front", with even more new […]
GameStop To Buy Electronics Boutique
GameStop announced today that it has a definitive merger agreement to purchase Electronics Boutique. A joint statement outlined the deal which will create the largest game-selling company in the world. Electronics Boutique reported $1.94 billion in sales last year. GameStop reported $1.84 billion in 2004. According to the agreement, GameStop will pay $38.15 in cash […]
UBI Opens New Quebec Studio
Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced the creation of a new videogame development studio that will employ 200 designers, animators and programmers in Quebec City. This announcement is part of the recently announced project to create 1000 new jobs by 2010 in Quebec, thereby bringing its total number of employees […]
Foundation 9 Buys Pipeworks
Foundation 9 Entertainment, Inc., North America’s largest independent developer, today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Pipeworks Software, an independent studio focusing on development of entertainment software titles for major software publishers. After the transaction is completed, Pipeworks will continue to develop video games for the Sony PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, […]