It's Zango Time!
By: Chella Ramanan EGN – Zango Games interview While at EGN, I had the good fortune to run into Zango Games, a company that wants to make games more popular by extending their lifecycle. It will take a strong community to make things work, but Zango seems to have all their ducks in a row. […]
Microsoft Does Games at ECTS
By: Chella Ramanan As games budgets continue to reach for the sky, developers are looking for all the help they can get. Following on from GIN's interview with Microsoft's Dean Lester at last year's ECTS, Chella brings the latest on Microsoft's gaming for Windows initiatives at ECTS 2004. The release of Direct X 9.0 means […]
Jolt Online To Carry Asheron's Call Games
Jolt Online Gaming, Europe’s largest independent online gaming network, is pleased to announce it has signed an exclusive agreement with Turbine Entertainment Software, a premier provider of online subscription services, for the right to host, operate, market, distribute and support Asheron’s Call and Asheron’s Call 2: Fallen Kings online services in Europe. The deal marks […]
Star Wars Battlefront Goes Gold
Prepare for battle. LucasArts is excited to announce that the highly anticipated action/shooter, Star Wars Battlefront has officially GONE GOLD on PS2, Xbox and PC and is scheduled to blast its way onto store shelves on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 — day and date with the Star Wars Trilogy, which marks the first time all […]
Codemasters Gets New North American President
UK-based interactive entertainment company, Codemasters, promotes Marc Bennett to the position of President, North America. The announcement was made today by Codemasters' Chief Executive Officer, Nick Wheelwright, to whom Bennett will report. In his new capacity, Bennett will be responsible for all sales, marketing and business development activities for North America. "We are thrilled to […]
Midway Heading to Austin
Leading interactive entertainment developer and publisher, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) today announced plans to open a new internal development studio in Austin, Texas. Midway is actively recruiting for the new studio which it plans to open in the near future. Midway will be at the upcoming Austin Game Conference on Sept. 9-10 at the […]
Hollywood Lines up for Area 51
Leading interactive entertainment developer and publisher, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) today announced that it has gathered a blockbuster Hollywood cast to lend their award-winning talents to its greatly anticipated new action-thriller, AREA 51. Featuring the voice talent of David Duchovny, Powers Boothe, and Marilyn Manson, Midway's AREA 51 is scheduled to be available in […]
Exclusive Halo 2 Preview!
By: Chella Ramanan GiN European Correspondent The queues were already building outside Game Stars and there was an air of quiet anticipation. The doors opened and it was a question of locating the Xbox stand as soon as possible. I did and got myself in the sweet position of being about 15th in the queue […]
Acclaim Goes Bankrupt
Longtime game industry company Acclaim will not be making any more games. The company filed for bankruptcy with the SEC today. Acclaim's stock was trading at two cents per share prior to the announcement. Acclaim has been having a lot of trouble with the NASDAQ lately and were being threatened with delisting for failing to […]
Aterdux Entertainment Releases Discord Times
It seems like new RPG and strategy games are released every day, with little or no interest taken by editors or gamers. So why then did an indie title from a little known game developer attracted so much media attention and got rave reviews from fantasy lovers? Here is the answer. Discord Times is a […]