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 […]
Strange Adventures in Space to Return
Digital Eel is very happy to announce that Weird Worlds: Return To Infinite Space is in production and development is well under way. The semidangerous beta version of the game is currently in the capable hands of four of the most fearless of the Fearless Testers. We’ll be working closely with the whole group over […]
Adventure Company to Publish Wanted
The Adventure Company today announced that it will publish WANTED: A Wild Western Adventure for Windows in North America. Riding his trusty horse through the Wild West, Fenimore Filimore happens upon a small farming community in trouble. John Starek, a greedy rancher, has set his sites on the town and will stop at nothing to […]
Gizmondo premieres in Europe
Gizmondo, the eagerly anticipated, new handheld multientertainment device from Tiger Telematics (NASDAQ:TGTL) will be showcased this week at the 2004 European Games Network (EGN), September 1 – 3, at ExCeL in London. EGNExpo is the UK's premier trade show targeting computer/video games suppliers, publishers, developers, distributors and the gaming industry as a whole. The Gizmondo […]