MTV Music Generator 3 Ships
Codemasters, a leading global publisher of interactive entertainment, and MTV: Music Television announced today that the highly anticipated MTV Music Generator 3: This Is The Remix video game has shipped to retail outlets nationwide. The latest installment in the series offers the ability to create, remix and display personalized music creations and is now available […]
Vivendi Lays Off 350 Workers, Cuts Costs
Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) today announced another step in its turnaround plan to improve operating effectiveness, reduce costs and position for growth. The changes include a significant staff reduction in its North American based operations resulting in the elimination of 350 staff positions. The Company’s Blizzard Entertainment studio was not part of the staff […]
Alienware Adds PCI Express
Alienware, the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, and professional systems, announced today the immediate availability of PCI Express in their Intel-based desktop and workstation systems. Powered by PCI Express technology, Alienware systems offer a remarkable performance increase in the execution of computer applications. The result is an even more realistic gaming experience and an […]
Video Dealers Support Anti-piracy Efforts
The Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) today commended the Motion Picture Association of America for launching a public education campaign on the consequences and risks of illegally downloading movies from the Internet. "Piracy, or more properly theft, is the greatest threat to the home video industry," VSDA President Bo Andersen said. "Because illegal movie downloading […]
Codemasters Reveals WWII Multiplayer Strategy
Global interactive entertainment company Codemasters announced today new details for the co-op multiplayer mode of Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, the company's much anticipated real time strategy game. Developed exclusively for PC/CD-ROM by Ukrainian company Best Way, Soldiers will be released in the U.S. on June 29. Set to go beyond the call of […]
Games For Health Conference Announced
An innovative conference addressing how games and game technologies can meet health care needs will be held in Madison, Wisconsin September 16-17. It will be co-sponsored by the Serious Games Initiative, the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab at the University of Wisconsin System in Madison, and the Federation of American Scientists’ Learning Federation Project. […]
EA Tackles Fantasy Football
EA SPORTS, best known for its powerhouse football videogame, now is taking on all fantasy football comers with the announcement of EA SPORTSâ„¢ Fantasy Football. Available starting July 21st at www.easports.com/fantasy. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), in conjunction with STATS, Inc. will offer a variety of fantasy football experiences for the 2004-2005 football season. "We're taking EA […]
Atari Ships Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Atari has shipped Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, the highly anticipated cinematic first-person action game for the XboxT video game system from Microsoft, to retail stores worldwide this week. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury offers players a gripping movie-style experience through its unprecedented Hollywood production values, intense action and ground-breaking sound and visual effects. "Gamers will feel […]
OpenFlight Tools Ready For Developers
Turbo Squid, home of the world's largest collection of royalty-free 3D assets and worldwide publisher and distributor for the Discreet Certified 3ds max Plug-in program, today announced the release of Flight Studio from Bluerock Technologies as a DCP. Flight Studio is a complete set of OpenFlight importing, editing, and exporting tools for Discreet 3ds max […]
Sony Forum Helps Improve Everquest
On June 5, SOE hosted almost 70 players from around the United States in a first-ever Guild Summit. This meeting allowed for a frank exchange of views and ideas between the EverQuest Live team and leaders of some of the game's more prominent guilds. The various guild representatives came well-prepared (notes and notebooks, even CDs) […]