Carrie Swidecki, a 35 year old public school teacher from Bakersfield, CA, got her exergaming groove on and broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon on a Dance / Rhythm Game playing DanceDanceRevolution (SuperNova 2 arcade game) in Charleston, West Virginia yesterday at 12:30 a.m. EDT. Ms. Swidecki broke the previously held record of 13 hours 33 minutes 56 seconds, set in the United Kingdom in October, 2010, with a time of 15 hours, 17 minutes and 44 seconds. "I couldn’t be more excited to have broken the Guinness World Record playing DanceDanceRevolution," said Carrie Swidecki, Physical Education teacher … Continue reading Teacher Sets DanceDanceRevolution World Record→
id Software and Bethesda Softworks are pleased to announce that AT&T is an official sponsor of QuakeCon 2011, North America’s largest Bring-Your-Own-Computer (BYOC) LAN party and gaming festival. AT&T’s network will deliver more than five times the bandwidth ever made available to the event -ensuring the most connected and social QuakeCon ever. AT&T’s participation provides this year’s attendees with the best possible networked gaming experiences and opens up more possibilities than ever for fans at home to enjoy the event through increased live and on-demand video streams. "We are absolutely stoked to have AT&T as an official sponsor of this … Continue reading AT&T To Provide QuakeCon Networking→
BAG Entertainment Co., Ltd.announced that they recently concluded the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bungalo Interactive Inc. at COEX in Samsung-dong, southern Seoul. The two companies have merged and are now sharing strategies to enter the global market in developing and publishing SNG games for Facebook. James Ryu/ Sean Lee, CEO of BAG Entertainment Co., Ltd. shared his vision to develop a competitive and high quality SNG within the global market. He also said that he will use this opportunity to show the strength of the Korean Game Developing enterprise. Erik Stroman, CEO of Bungalo Interactive was introduced and made … Continue reading BAG Entertainment Merges With Bungalo For Facebook Games→
In an effort to help foster creativity and innovation from the rising talent in the independent game development community, Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) is proud to announce today the winners of the first round of the inaugural Activision Independent Games Competition. The winners are being rewarded for their hard work and creativity with cash prizes to be used further develop their winning ideas. Publishers: Activision Platforms: Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
Avadon: The Black Fortress is a hardcore, old school RPG created by an independent studio and sold directly from their Webpage for Mac, PC or iPad. And it happens to be darn good.
This week Billy and the Weekly Time Waster give you an opportunity to waste time…slowly. What could be better than taking a whole work day and crawling across the equivalent of a sidewalk square?
Irrational Games co-founder and Director of Development on BioShock, Jonathan Chey announced the founding of Blue Manchu, a new independent development studio dedicated to innovative strategy and simulation gaming and as well as a collaboration with Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering, on Blue Manchu’s first game, Card Hunter. Blue Manchu is a loose collective of industry veterans making games that probably would not be funded within the prevailing industry models. Chey was one of the two owners of Irrational when that studio was sold to Take 2. After directing the development of BioShock, Chey left Take 2 in … Continue reading Blue Manchu Development House Forms, Announces Card Hunter Game→
Letters From Nowhere 2 proves to be one of the best hidden object type games we’ve ever played, and sets the bar very high for any other titles to try and follow.
Billy spends his Weekly Time Waster on the newly free-to-play Team Fortress 2 this week. Is it worth wasting your workday on? Hell, what ELSE are you going to do at work? WORK? That’s crazy talk, there.
One of the leading social gaming companies in the world, CrowdStar, is joining forces with consumer Internet and mobile computing incubator, YouWeb, to help spur the next generation of mobile social gaming innovation. CrowdStar successfully stormed the mobile space last month with its hit social game, "Top Girl." The iOS title rapidly shot to the no.1 spot in Apple’s App Store, acquiring over 1 million downloads in just 10 days and establishing itself as the top-grossing game in the App Store over "Zynga Poker" and "Angry Birds." On the heels of this success, CrowdStar is establishing StarFund and allocating up … Continue reading CrowdStar Sets Up Fund For New Mobile Developers→
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