Matrix Online Delayed
The Matrix Online, a massively multi-player online game co-published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and SEGA of America, will now ship in Spring 2005. Previously slated for a January 2005 launch, the game will expand its beta program while the overall game experience is being enhanced. "We are committed to quality games and making this […]
NRA Releases Shooting Game
Speedco Shooting Sports, Inc. is pleased to report the release of its second game, NRA Varmint Hunter. This simulator-style computer game features all the real-world elements of an actual varmint hunt. Players can shoot both eastern and western varmints (ground hogs, prairie dogs and an occasional coyote) in their natural terrains. Be it the open […]
AIAS Announces DICE Speakers
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the professional organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of interactive arts, has announced some of its speakers and panel topics for the 2005 D.I.C.E. Summit (Design, Innovate, Communicate and Entertain.) Addressing the industry's most essential topics for 2005 such as IP piracy, predicting a successful game, […]
Postal 2 Moves To Mac
If we don’t get banned somewhere each week, I start to feel that maybe we aren’t doing our job," Vince Desi, head of RWS once admitted to a reporter regarding the POSTAL videogame franchise. By those standards, the creators of POSTAL, Running With Scissors have had an incredible week. The company that brought us the […]
Hearts of Iron II Shirts Added To Prize Pool
Paradox Interactive has given GiN readers the chance to win a cool t-shirt to support the pending launch of their strategy title Hearts of Iron II. The t-shirts are black with red lettering. Each week, one lucky GiN subscriber will be able to win one of the shirts. The game will be released in North […]
Ragnarok Demos Hit Barns and Noble
TOKYOPOP Inc. and Gravity Interactive are teaming up to provide fans of the hit manga series Ragnarok the chance to play Ragnarok Online free for 15 days. A Ragnarok Online complimentary game CD will be bundled with select volumes of the Ragnarok manga series at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest bookseller with more […]
Patton Book Makes Game Chapter
Merscom LLC today announced an agreement with book publishers McFarland & Company for inclusion of a chapter from their book "Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division" in Merscom's upcoming military arcade-style action game for PC, "WWII Tank Commander". An electronic version of the vividly detailed chapter will be included as a bonus […]
Got Game Ships Bad Mojo
Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced that "Bad Mojo" for PC and Mac has begun shipping to retail across North America. The unique adventure, which finds you in the curious role of a cockroach navigating the eerie and intricate world of a dilapidated San Francisco building, scurries onto retail shelves by this weekend, just in […]
Game Stars Coming To UK TV
Game Stars, the UK’s nationwide Network TV annual awards show which celebrates great video and computer games as entertainment, is to be rolled out as a major new TV series in 2005. In planning for a late Summer/Autumn broadcast, the program is expected to include 10 episodes and a special from the major consumer games […]
The Universal, Free MMRPG Launches
The first publicly-available version of The Universal is here! The Universal is a free, massively-multiplayer online game set in a virtual 3d universe of worlds owned and run by other players. Created by Games For May, an independent team of volunteers from the games industry, The Universal brings a totally unique approach to the popular […]