NAMCO Hires Grantley Day
Global video games publisher, Namco Hometek Inc. announced today the hiring of Grantley Day as Director of PC Development, reinforcing the company's commitment to its expansion into the PC games market. Day brings to Namco more than eleven years of experience in developing entertainment software for the PC, including most notably his online game development […]
GiN Reviewer Pens Book on Games
Gareth Von Kallenbach, a longtime Game Industry News Freelancer, has written a new book reviewing games and movies. In addition to all of the reviews, the books contain interviews with interesting people such as Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett), Natalie Portman (Padme), Charlie Hunnam (Cold Mountain), Nia vardols and John Corbet (My Big […]
Phantom Partners with Limelight Networks
Infinium Labs (OTC BB: IFLB) and Limelight Networks, a leading Digital Delivery Network provider, have formed a strategic alliance to deliver content for Infinium’s flagship Phantom Game Service rapidly and seamlessly, via broadband. To expand the service’s content delivery infrastructure, Limelight will provide high-performance, high-integrity back-end technology and local high-speed distribution points for Phantom, the […]
Call of Duty: Finest Hour Ships
Soldiers"it's time to heed the call and experience cinematic intensity and the chaos of battle as never before with the release of Activision, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Call of Duty: Finest Hour, a gritty new World War II action game for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Xbox video game system from Microsoft and Nintendo GameCube. […]
Mastiff Gets Rights To Top Gun Games
Video Game publisher Mastiff today announced that they have entered into agreements with Viacom Consumer Products and Titus to re-release games under the Top Gun brand. Under the agreements, Mastiff will publish Top Gun: Combat Zones for PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo GameCubeT and Game Boy Advance, and Top Gun: Firestorm for Game Boy […]
WildTangent Partners with McDonalds
WildTangent, the leading online game publisher, today announced a marketing alliance with McDonalds to promote its online downloadable games with MONOPOLY Best Chance Game 2.0.at McDonald's, now available at participating McDonald's until supplies last. The promotion offers consumers the same exciting game as previous years plus a new online version to offer winning players with […]
Willis McGahee Challenges Halo 2 Players
During his time in the NFL, Buffalo Bills’ star running back Willis McGahee has encountered some of the toughest competitors the gridiron has to offer; but as every Halo fan knows, it takes more than a helmet and some shoulder pads to declare yourself a Master Chief. On Tuesday, November 16, from 2:30 p.m. to […]
Black Hammer Splits from Strategy First
Black Hammer Game Inc., one of New York's leading independent game developers, has announced that it terminated its relationship with Strategy First Inc. in July 2004. Consequently Strategy First will no longer be publishing its upcoming PC turn-based strategy title "Supremacy: Four Paths To Power". Strategy First is no longer authorized to represent Black Hammer […]
Sammy Studios Donates to U of California
The University of California, San Diego today announced a gift of more than $290,000 from Sammy Studios, Inc., the Carlsbad, California-based videogame company, a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings, to support UCSD's Experimental Game Lab (EGL) at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). "UCSD and the Division of Arts and Humanities […]
Morrowind Gets Platinum Status Again
Bethesda Softworks today announced that it will release its award-winning RPG, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year (GotY) edition later this month as part of the Xbox Platinum Hits series. This is the second time Morrowind has been released as a Platinum Hits title, the first game ever to accomplish this feat. […]