A group known as Internet Superstars are donating their proceeds from a flash game to Child's Play Charity. In 1976, a company called Internet Superstars (originally ARPAnet Superstars) released a game called "The Game Conference Game." It details a person's quest to get a job in the video game industry by attending "The Game Conference" and telling everyone about their cool game idea. First made for the PDP-10, the game was later ported for systems such as the PC and Commodore 64. It was later found that the disks used for the game were of low quality and went bad. … Continue reading Old 1976 Video Game Remade For Charity →

Emergent has integrated Illuminate Labs' Beast system with the award-winning Gamebryo development platform. Beast will complement Gamebryo's powerful animation system by adding the ability to quickly create complex, highly-detailed light maps with advanced global illumination. Emergent created Gamebryo to provide the industry's most flexible and extensible game development platform. The company's robust partner program ensures customers have the industry's most powerful tech by providing more than a dozen integrated solutions to choose from. By removing the risk involved with developing core technology, studios can focus their efforts on creative and polishing their titles. The Beast system follows this philosophy by … Continue reading Emergent Merges Beast System And Gamebryo →

Signature Devices, Inc. (OTCPK: SDVI) is pleased to announce that the company's subsidiary, Graffiti Entertainment, Inc., has chosen Reverb Communications, Inc. as its principal marketing and public relations agency. Reverb will be responsible for all media relations activities and provide tactical messaging for Graffiti's upcoming titles Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled, C.O.R.E. and Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II. Reverb Communications is a full service video game agency that provides public relations, marketing, and sales services through one integrated campaign to the interactive entertainment and music industry. The company represents premier companies such as Harmonix, the developers of … Continue reading Graffiti Renews Reverb Communications For PR →

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft, its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is now played by more than 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. This new high was reached following the November 13 release of the game's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. Within its first 24 hours of availability, Wrath of the Lich King sold more than 2.8 million copies, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. In addition to winning a number of editor's choice awards from major gaming publications, the expansion has now gone on to sell more than 4 million … Continue reading World Of Warcraft Online Reaches 11.5 Million Players →

The Steam Holiday sale is on now. Through January 2, 2009, every game on Steam is available at 10% to 75% off the regular price. Select publisher catalogs such as Ubisoft, THQ, and 2K Games are 25% off. Award-winning titles such as Bioshock and Portal are available for 75% off the regular price. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com/holidaysale . The folks at Meridian4, which recently started distributing their games through the Steam service, also note that they have added special incentives to this effort. They have also introduced the Meridian4 pack, where you can get everyone of their games … Continue reading Steam Games On Sale →

San Diego, Calif. (December 23, 2008) – iZ3D LLC, designer, marketer and enabler of advanced 3D visualization systems, will be featuring a hands on demonstration of three of it's upcoming product prototypes for 2009. iZ3D is located in meeting room #25118M in the Gaming Showcase downstairs in South Hall 2 of the Las Vegas Convention Center. "We are continually pioneering new areas of 3D display for consumers with new display products, stereoscopic 3D software drivers, 3D player groups, events, and networking, 3D content certification and enablement, and system solution partnerships," stated Thomas Striegler, CEO of iZ3D LLC. Introducing three cutting-edge … Continue reading iZ3D Planning CES Displays →

Visionman Computers, a manufacturer of servers, gaming systems and notebooks for small business and home users, today announced the release of the latest addition to its popular Acserva brand. The Acserva ViXone7 family of servers are the first servers worldwide to support Intel's newly-launched "Nehalem" architecture. In early November of this year, Intel introduced its first CPU releases based upon the Intel Core i7 platform to rave reception from high performance desktop users and gaming enthusiasts. The Intel core i7 processor was actually designed with high performance server applications in mind and Intel plans to officially launch their server-focused, Xeon … Continue reading Core i7 Gaming Servers Announced →

GarageGames, the leading technology provider for independent game developers, has released an update to their 2D game engine for the iPhone. This update includes texture compression using iPhone native PowerVR libraries, and optimizations yeilding up to 300% increases in performance. "When we first announced announced the availability of iTorque, we were absolutely flooded with inquiries," said Brett Seyler, Garagegames' VP of Business Development. "Today, there are still only rare opportunities for developers to work with commercial quality technology for the iPhone–our tech continues to improve daily, and we're really seeing the door open for richer, more sophisticated games in the … Continue reading GarageGames Licenses iTGB To Over 100 Companies →

Heatwave Interactive, Inc., the pioneer studio in innovative cross-media entertainment development for games, film and television, announces today the completion of the staffing of its Austin-based Central Studio. With that, Heatwave's co-Founder Anthony Castoro is pleased to make the following appointments: Dave Prout, co-Founder of Spark Unlimited, joins the Heatwave team as Director of Development. Prior to joining Heatwave, Prout rose through the ranks at Dreamworks Interactive, Electronic Arts Los Angeles and Midway Games, becoming well-respected for his attention to improving the process of game development. Titles Prout has contributed to include Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal … Continue reading Heatwave Interactive Staffs Up Austin Studio →

Reports are coming in that The Wastelander has finished collecting soda! This is just a little slow news day joke for our friends playing Fallout 3. It's something Three Dog says on his news program one day to correspond with a quest. He then complains about it being a slow news day. It's Christmas, and not much business is going on, but we kind of like it. Have a happy holiday and stay safe out there chilllllldren!