Sam And Max Are Steamed
Interactive entertainment pioneers Telltale Inc. and Valve today announced that Sam & Max: Season 1, Telltale's flagship episodic series, is now available on Steam, a leading online platform for the distribution and management of PC games. Sam & Max: Season 1 is a story-driven game series starring a dog and rabbity-thing detective duo that dishes […]
Balderton Buys Out Codemasters Founders
Balderton Capital, the leading venture capital firm, has acquired the remaining stake held by the founders of Codemasters, the largest independent videogame developer and publisher in Europe. Balderton, formerly known as Benchmark Capital Europe, first invested in Codemasters in 2005 taking a 40% stake and bought a further 30% in 2006. It has now bought […]
Lord Of The Rings MMO Expands
Turbine, Inc. released the first free update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Book 9: Shores of Evendim, the first of many planned free updates to the world of Middle-earth, introduces an entirely new landscape region, over 100 additional quests, the battle for Helegrod raid, nine new monsters, and […]
New Nancy Drew Game Ships
The summer renaissance of Nancy Drew begins in earnest this month with the launch of the latest PC game in Her Interactive's award-winning series, Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek. As previously announced, Her Interactive is teaming up with Cotton Incorporated and Warner Bros. for a 15-stop, national mall tour from May 21 […]
Microsoft Marrying Games And Social Change
Microsoft Corp. and Games for Change (G4C) today announced a joint commitment to explore new ways to bring together the world of digital gaming with the world of social change at the fourth annual Games for Change Festival at Parsons The New School for Design. As part of the announcement, Microsoft outlined an all-new socially […]
iD Shows Off New Game Engine
Today, id Software unveiled their never-before-seen next-generation game engine technology, id Tech 5, running on a Mac at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. This revolutionary new technology will power the studio's internally created new game property and will be available for licensing to third parties. Previous iterations of id technology have powered games with worldwide retail […]
Cartoon Network To Deliver Digital Games To PS2, Wii
Cartoon Network New Media is expanding its games distribution to videogame consoles through an innovative browser application developed at AFI's Digital Content Lab. Launching in late 2007 to early 2008, the new multi-platform window called "MEGA Series" delivers an interactive video and gaming experience to broadband-enabled consoles. Additionally, the application can be adapted for distribution […]
Pets Invade The Sims 2
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that The Sims 2 Pets for the Wii has shipped to retailers around the globe. For the first time ever on the innovative Wii platform, Nintendo players and Sims fans alike will be able to use the accessible Wii controls to create pets for their Sims to train, play […]
Codemasters Hires Three Industry Vets
In a move to further bolster its presence in the North American market, Codemasters today announced the addition of three gaming and entertainment industry veterans to its growing U.S. operations based in Burbank, Calif. Former Konami Digital Entertainment COO Geoff Mulligan will lead the U.S. management team as president of Codemasters, Inc. Mulligan will report […]
Legos To Become MMO
Group today announced LEGO Universe as the official title for the upcoming MMOG being developed by NetDevil to further engage the company's dedicated and active community. LEGO Universe, currently planned for launch in the fourth quarter of 2008, is designed as the first MMOG professionally developed for LEGO fans and supported by community members from […]