ELAN Award Winners Announced
Last night the Video Game, Animation Industry and Digital Art Students turned out in full force to celebrate Canadian supremacy in the fastest growing entertainment industry in the world. Canadian video game developers and publishers, animators and studio heads and the brightest students and top academia gathered at 2nd Annual Elan Awards held at The […]
Twofish Elements Economy Engine Released
Twofish, Inc. today launched Twofish Elements, the game industry's first turnkey solution for powering a dynamic and realistic in-game economy. A true Economic Engine, Twofish Elements integrates seamlessly into games, provides a flexible and secure banking and retail infrastructure, and puts complex economic analytics at a game operator's fingertips. The technology solves core problems with […]
Naoki Katashima Is KOEI Executive VP
KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that Naoki Katashima has been appointed to the role of Executive Vice President of KOEI Ltd. in the UK, KOEI France, and KOEI Corporation in North America. In this new position, he will manage the sales and marketing operations in each […]
Ubisoft Wins $13 Million Bratz Judgment Against MGA
Greenberg Glusker today announced that its client, Ubisoft Entertainment, one of the world's largest video game publishers, has obtained a $13.2 million judgment in a copyright and trademark infringement dispute against MGA Entertainment, the owner of Bratz dolls. Greenberg Glusker attorneys Stephen Smith and Suann MacIsaac, joining with Dale Kinsella of Kinsella, Weitzman, Iser, Kump […]
Dear Editor: Story Beats Graphics
Dear Editor, John Breeden's interesting article on which way a publisher should go: High end graphics that most gamers haven't got, or slick gameplay, like Sid Meier's Pirates that do not have high end graphics, as well as the problem of PC gaming and the temptation of moving to console got me thinking" In a […]
Lord Of The Rings Online Expands
Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online announced the details of the fourth free content update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Book 12: The Ashen Wastes continues the epic story of The Lord of the Rings Online, adds substantial new features that provide players ability to truly personalize their heroes […]
Brighter Minds Partners With Gamelab
Brighter Minds Media, LLC (Brighter Minds) is thrilled to announce the start of a new partnership with top game developer Gamelab. Brighter Minds will publish and distribute a selection of Gamelab's hit titles for the retail market. The collaboration will combine Gamelab's pioneering development skill and Brighter Minds' expertise in software packaging and distribution to […]
Sweet Spot Productions Founded
Sweet Spot Productions has been launched in Hollywood as a new, full-service marketing agency specializing in conceiving, developing and producing consumer and trade campaigns promoting feature films and videogames. Sweet Spot specializes in producing film trailers, teasers, TV and radio spots, Internet webisodes and cross-platform/new media marketing. Don Scotti and Joe Takats, co-founders of Sweet […]
MOSBE Desktop Selected For Military's Noble Resolve 08
BreakAway, a leading developer of entertainment games and game-based technology products for modeling, simulation, training and visualization today announced that BreakAway's mōsbē desktop development platform will be used to develop experimentation scenarios to support U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) and U.S. Northern Command, Noble Resolve 08, a series of events designed to enhance homeland defense […]
Broadcom Demonsting Mobile Game Benchmarks
Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the first public demonstration showing realistic mobile game benchmarks based on the emerging OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard, running on cell phone hardware. In collaboration with Futuremark, a respected developer of PC and handheld performance benchmarks, Broadcom will demonstrate […]