LucasArts Announces Fracture
LucasArts and development partner Day 1 Studios today announced Fractureâ„¢, in which players reshape the battlefields in a futuristic conflict with global implications. This epic war fought on American soil pits cybernetically enhanced soldiers against warriors augmented by the benefits of advanced genetic engineering. The company that brought you Star Wars and Indiana Smith, as […]
Tournament.com Ready For Launch
Tournament.com, an innovator in skill-based gaming, announced at last night's pre-launch event that its service will be entering final beta on Wednesday, May 2, 2007. People showed up to play the new service and compete in matches of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the evening's overall winner, Ariel Fradin, walked off with a cool $1,000 in […]
Acclaim Bots Reaches 1 Million Players
Acclaim Games announces a major milestone for the multiplayer online robot fighting game BOTS!! with over 1 million registered players. Officially released in November 2006, BOTS!! has a growing fan base of young gamers who are addicted to the intense fighting action and social interaction with others. Over 1 million players have already had the […]
AOL Launches FireChild Teen MMO
AOL's teen site, RED (http://www.beRED.com) announced today the debut of "FireChild: Tournament of the Ancients," a 3-D, sci-fi action, multiplayer, console-quality game available for download and online play for free exclusively at www.firechildonred.com. "Tournament of the Ancients" will take place where AOL RED's original FireChild series left off and will introduce gamers to a new […]
Atari Ships ArmA: Combat Operations
Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), one of the world's most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher, today announced that the realistic combat simulation, ArmA: Combat Operationsâ„¢ has now shipped to stores nationwide. Developed by Bohemia Interactive, ArmA: Combat Operations is available for the Windows platform for the suggested retail price of $39.95. The game […]
Tradewinds Legends Hits Mac
Sandlot Games, a leading developer and publisher of casual and family-friendly games, announced the release of its Macintosh version of Tradewinds Legends, one of the top selling online games of 2006. Now both PC and Mac players can join the more than 7 million people who have downloaded and enjoyed Tradewinds Legends. As part of […]
MMO Vets Open Colony Studios
Colony Studios has joined the list of new MMO developer studios with one significant advantage – the team members have contributed significantly to the successes of the most popular MMOs including World of Warcraft, EVE Online, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of the Rings Online, Everquest, and Ultima Online. Veteran MMO developer […]
Guild Wars Turning Two
On April 28, 2005, the Guild Wars franchise was born with the release of the original campaign, Guild Wars Prophecies. In the two years since that date, the game's developer, ArenaNet, and publisher, NCsoft, have launched two additional stand-alone games, Guild Wars Factions and Guild Wars Nightfall. In total, the Guild Wars series has sold […]
Capcom's Ace Attorney Scores Big
Capcom Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that the latest iteration of the Ace Attorney series, Ace Attorney 4, has shipped over 500,000 units in just one week since its release on April 12th. The Ace Attorney series of adventure games focuses on a prominent defense attorney attempting to clear his clients of false charges […]
Phantasy Star Expands
SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus, will be available for download on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and in stores for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and PCs in Fall 2007. Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the […]