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 […]
Mr Do! Goes Mobile
Namco Networks, a leading publisher of mobile games and entertainment for mass-market consumers including top selling arcade classics PAC-MAN, Ms. PAC-MAN, Galaga and Dig-Dug, today announced the availability of its latest arcade classics Mr. Do! and Mr. Do!'s Castle on mobile. In Namco Networks' update to the arcade classic Mr. Do!, players are challenged to […]
Mastiff Gets Major League Eating License
Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that they have acquired the Major League Eating (MLE) license for interactive platforms. Major League Eating, which oversees all top eating events in the nation including the July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, counts among its members Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese eating phenomenon, and American Joey Chestnut, current champion of […]
2K Play, Nickelodeon Launch Preschooler Games
2K Play, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, today announced that Go, Diego, Go!: Safari Rescue for the Wii home video game system and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system will be available at retailers in North America beginning on February 12, 2008. The […]
Stream Reaches 15 Million Accounts
Valve today announced that Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital entertainment, has surpassed 15 million accounts and realized year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season. The year also marked the debut of the Steam Community and launch of several best-selling and critically-acclaimed titles such as Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, […]
Speedball 2 – Tournament Ships
Speedball 2 – Tournament, the ferocious and extreme sports game for PC, is available in stores today. In a violent future, two heavily armoured teams fight a vicious battle for possession of a steel ball. Take control of a brutal squad of athletes and punch your way through the opposition, pounding players to the ground […]
Games Revive Sam And Max Comics
Twenty years after their comic book debut and over a decade after their collected works went out of print, the Freelance Police are back on the comic beat. Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell and Telltale, developer and publisher of episodic games based on the franchise, announced today that the anniversary edition of Surfin' the […]
Gannholm Becomes PopCap VP
PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual video games, today announced that it has hired Martin Gannholm, a 20-year technology industry veteran, to the newly-created position of Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Gannholm comes to PopCap after four years as a senior member of Microsoft Corporation's business software division, most recently as Architect […]
Nyko Taking Wii Nunchuk Wireless
Nyko Technologies, a premier peripherals manufacturer, today announced that they will release the Cord-Free wireless adapter for the Wii Nunchuk this February. While the highly anticipated award winning Wireless Nunchuck for Wii is a brand-new standalone product, the Cord-Free wireless adapter for Wii Nunchuk differentiates from its sibling by converting your standard wired Nunchuk into […]