The typical picture of an average online gamer, once seen as a teenage boy or an introverted, overweight, and depressed adult who spent most of their time indoors playing computer or console games, is no longer true. According to a new survey conducted online in October 2011 by Harris Interactive on behalf of GameHouse among over 2,000 U.S. adults, more than half (55%) of online gamers (people who play online games on their computer, social networking sites, or mobile devices) are women. Furthermore, these women are more social and were found to have more sex than females who do not … Continue reading Study Shows Women Gamers Have More Sex→
Railsimulator.com Ltd., the market leading innovator of rail simulation and modeling tools, is pleased to announce the Donner Pass: Southern Pacific add-on for RailWorks 3: Train Simulator 2012 will be available Thursday, November 24 for download from Steam. This challenging route puts you at the controls of Southern Pacific diesels in the early-1990s, taking trains between Roseville, California and Reno, Nevada through the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and high up through the incredible 7,000-foot Donner Pass. The trains are heavy, the railroad is tough and the scenery is awesome. So, start the motor, you have some real challenges ahead. … Continue reading Donner Pass Add-On Hits Rail Works 3 On Thanksgiving Day→
Find out all about how characters have been added to Distant Worlds – Legends, making for a new dimension in the 4X space strategy title. http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=GAaiwwpZ-WY Publishers: Matrix Games Platforms: PC
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced BEYBLADE: Metal Masters is now available for the Nintendo DS handheld system. Based on the hugely popular boys action TV series from Nelvana and d-rights Inc., and a wide range of Beyblade toys, BEYBLADE: Metal Masters makes its return on the Nintendo DS platform with over 35 different characters from the animated series. In BEYBLADE: Metal Masters, players can customize their own Beyblade tops as they battle it out with characters from the series in a last-man standing competition in the battle arena. By timing their attacks, players must keep their Beyblade top spinning … Continue reading BeyBlade: Metal Masters Ships for DS→
Nordic Games GmbH, part of the Nordic Games Holding AB group, announces the acquisition of the entire product- and brand-portfolio of DreamCatcher, including, but not limited to Painkiller, Safecracker, and more than 50 other intellectual properties (IPs) and licenses. Aside from "JoWooD" and "The Adventure Company", "DreamCatcher" will become the third publishing label within Nordic Games GmbH, with the plan to re-launch the extensive back catalogue of games and further expand on the wholly owned IPs and licences . Basic business operations will be handled from Vienna, Austria, whereas Nordic Games is currently in negotiations with North American companies regarding … Continue reading DreamCatcher Games Bought By Nordic Games GmbH→
Are you ready to get FrogWild? Today Oakland, California-based Easymode Games launched its debut mobile game, FrogWild, an artfully rendered casual game that’s fun for the whole family. The frog has an incredible appetite and temptations abound. Dragonflies are everywhere and it’s the player’s job to help the frog catch them with his turbo tongue. The idea is simple: players use their touchscreen to throw the frog’s tongue to catch dragonflies flying by. While the goal is simple, the challenge is anything but. As the frog visits nine visually stunning natural environments, the new dragonfly species inhabiting the environments become … Continue reading Easymode Releases Its First Mobile Game→
ZeniMax Media Inc. today announced that Bethesda Softworks’ award-winning title, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has enjoyed an enthusiastic reception by gamers across the globe. After shipping seven million units of Skyrim for the Xbox 360 video game entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and PC, Skyrim’s launch units are expected to generate more than $450 million in global retail sales. With tens of thousands of fans lining up at retail outlets at midnight on 11/11/11 to purchase the game, Skyrim continued to record strong sales following its release. More than 50% of launch units were sold … Continue reading Skyrim Sets Steam Record With 280,000 Concurrent Players→
Shattering its own day-one sales records, Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), announced that its highly-anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the biggest entertainment launch ever with an estimated sell-through of more than $400 million and more than 6.5 million units in North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of its release, according to Charttrack and retail customer sell-through information. This marks the third consecutive year that the Call of Duty franchise has set day one launch records across all forms of entertainment, something no other … Continue reading Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Has Biggest Launch In History→
Today Funcom kicks off Week of the Templars; a full week of focus on the Templars secret society. Throughout the week, all eyes will be on the historic and uncompromising Templars society, one of three secret societies represented in the upcoming, modern-day MMO ‘The Secret World.’ Which secret society are you? Sign up for the beta and join a secret society by taking the initiation test on www.thesecretworld.com! The Templars is the most uncompromising and traditional of the three in-game secret societies; based in London, the focus of the Templars is their crusade against darkness. Throughout the week Funcom will … Continue reading The Secret World Beta Begins Templar Week→
PopCap Games, maker of some of the world’s most popular video games, today unveiled the results of a survey updating a 2010 report targeting social gamers in the U.S. and U.K. The survey found that 118.5 million people now play social games at least once a week, up 71%. Among other results in the new survey, players are now significantly more likely to spend real-world money to buy content within social games, with 31 million players having purchased in-game currency, up 86 percent. The full report, conducted by Information Solutions Group is available for download at http://www.infosolutionsgroup.com/pdfs/2011_PopCap_Social_Gaming_Research_Results.pdf The report examines … Continue reading PopCap Survey Finds Huge Social Games Growth→
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