Aardvark Records teams up with gaming company Audio Surf

Press Releases May 11th, 2008

Got a ticket to ride? Music from Aardvark Records gets you moving.

Aardvark Records and Audio Surf LLC today announcing a partnership which will see the British record label supply the US-based gaming company with its extensive catalogue of pop, rock and dance tracks. The innovative deal will see the initial delivery of 160 [...]

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Gore Verbinski to develop BioShock movie

Videogames May 10th, 2008

Gore Verbinski to develop BioShock movie
Take-Two Interactive Software has announced that Gore Verbinski would now be making the movie edition of popular videogame title BioShock.
Gore Verbinski is most known for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series which was a major hit worldwide.
The movie would be produced by Universal Pictures. Christoph Hartmann, president of Take-Two’s [...]

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EA Announces E3 2008 Press Conference Details

Press Releases May 9th, 2008

E3 Media & Business Summit 2008
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced timing for the company’s annual E3 Media & Business Summit press conference happening July 2008 in Los Angeles (http://www.e3summit08.com).
EA E3 2008 PRESS CONFERENCE:
WHAT: EA E3 Media & Business Summit Press Conference
WHEN:
Monday July 14th, 2008 at 3:00pm PT
WHERE: Orpheum Theater
850 [...]

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Mad Catz to Produce Liverpool Football Club Branded Videogame Controllers and Related Accessories

Press Releases May 9th, 2008

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSX: MCZ), a leading third-party interactive entertainment accessory provider, announced today that its Mad Catz Europe Limited subsidiary has entered into a license agreement with The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Ltd to produce customized videogame controllers and other videogame accessories featuring the brand of the Liverpool Football Club of [...]

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Activision post impressive revenue figures

Videogame Developers May 9th, 2008

Activision post impressive revenue figures
Videogame publisher Activision gained from impressive sales of their titles like “Guitar Hero III” and “Call of Duty 4″ as they posted impressive revenue figures.
The company posted earnings of $44.2 million in the first three months of the year. This is much better than losses of $14.4 million in the same [...]

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ID announces Doom 4

Videogames May 9th, 2008

ID announces Doom 4
Doom 3 was not a huge success as the gamers were disappointed with the title.
ID has now announced that they have now started work on the next version Doom 4.
The company revealed that they are now hiring for this new project.
ID CEO Todd Hollenshead added in a statement: “Doom is part of [...]

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EVE Online Celebrates Five Years of Unprecedented Achievements in Online Gaming

Press Releases May 9th, 2008

The unique Sci-Fi MMO celebrates its 5th year of non-stop growth with an anniversary gift for subscribers
CCP, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, this week celebrates the five-year anniversary of its leading sci-fi massively multiplayer online game (MMO), EVE Online. What began as a highly advanced game, requiring a tremendous amount of [...]

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Rockstar Games releases GTA 4 patch for Sony Playstation 3

Sony PlayStation 3 News May 8th, 2008

Rockstar Games releases GTA 4 patch for Sony Playstation 3
Rockstar Games has confirmed that they have now released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3.
This patch has been designed to prevent overloading on the Gamespy’s servers causing issues for the gamers.
They continue to monitor the situation so that they can ensure that the online [...]

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Hiroshi Yamauchi richest in Japan as per Forbes

News, Personalities May 8th, 2008

Hiroshi Yamauchi richest in Japan as per Forbes
Former Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi is now the richest man in Japan and most of the credit can be given to the success of Nintendo Wii gaming console.
Forbes reported that his net worth currently is around $7.8 billion. This has improved by around $3 billion compared to last [...]

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Grand Theft Auto 4 brings in USD 500 million in first week of sales

Videogames May 8th, 2008

Grand Theft Auto 4 brings in USD 500 million in first week of sales
Take-Two Interactive Software have a major hit on their hands as their just launched gaming title Grand Theft Auto 4 has scored over $500 million in global sales in the first week itself.
This performance would boost their efforts to ignore the acquisition [...]

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Electronic Arts to concentrate on Wii for growth

Nintendo Wii May 7th, 2008

Electronic Arts to concentrate on Wii for growth
Videogame publisher Electronic Arts has announced that they are going to increase their focus on the Nintendo Wii gaming platform.
The company is now going to launch games such as “Madden”, “NBA Live” and “FIFA” on the Wii platform specifically designed to use its innovative controllers.
These games would feature [...]

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Blu-Ray drive for Xbox 360? Microsoft still denies.

Market Rumors, Microsoft Xbox 360 May 6th, 2008

Blu-Ray drive for Xbox 360? Microsoft still denies.
Chinese language Economic Daily News had recently reported that Pegatron has won an order from Microsoft to manufacture a variant of Xbox 360 with Blu-ray Disc ROM drive.
The report further claimed that the software giant is going to launch this version before the end of the year.
The latest [...]

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Chicago Transit Authority sued for not running GTA 4 ads

Videogames May 6th, 2008

Chicago Transit Authority sued for not running GTA 4 ads

Take-Two Interactive Software has revealed that they have now sued the Chicago Transit Authority for not running ads promoting their recently launched Grand Theft Auto 4 videogame.
The company has filed this lawsuit in the Manhattan federal court. They are claiming that CTA is violating its free [...]

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Story Behind Blood Will Tell Available in English

Press Releases May 2nd, 2008

Godfather of Manga gives PlayStation its cue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dororo Vol. 1
April 29, 2008 Jessica Hatakeda; Jessica@vertical-inc.com
300 [...]

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Enterbrain: PSP outselling DS in Japan

Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 News, Sony PlayStation Portable May 2nd, 2008

Enterbrain: PSP outselling DS in Japan
Japanese videogame magazine Enterbrain has revealed that Sony is back in the handheld gaming console market as their Playstation Portable device outsold Nintendo DS more than 2-to-1 in Japan in April.
However, Nintendo dominates the videogame console market with their Wii. Wii has been outselling Playstation 3 console by a huge [...]

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Wal-Mart to promote Wii Fit this Mother’s Day

Nintendo Wii, Press Releases May 2nd, 2008

Wal-Mart to promote Wii Fit this Mother’s Day
US based retailing giant Wal-Mart would be promoting the upcoming Wii Fit gaming title for the Nintendo Wii console this Mother’s Day.
Wii Fit is a game which comes loaded with physical exercise programs. It ships with a pressure-sensing board which is used as the controller for the game.
It [...]

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants an adults only rating for GTA4

Videogames May 2nd, 2008

Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants an adults only rating for GTA4
Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization has said that they want an adults only rating for the just launched GTA 4 videogame title.
Entertainment Software Ratings Board has rated the game as Mature which makes it possible for teenagers to buy the game.
MADD said in its statement [...]

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Atari to be acquired fully by Infogrames Entertainment

News May 2nd, 2008

Atari to be acquired fully by Infogrames Entertainment
Infogrames Entertainment has announced that they are going to acquire the videogame company Atari completely.
They already own 51.4 percent of Atari’s stock.
This deal would still require the approval of the company shareholders. However, it would not be a problem as they themselves own majority of the shares in [...]

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Grand Theft Auto IV broke first day sales record in UK

Videogames May 1st, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV broke first day sales record in UK
Grand Theft Auto IV has come and it has already started breaking all sorts of sales records.
The game has now broken the first day sales records in Britain.
Entertainment Retailers Association said in a statement that as per their estimates, the game sold about 609,000 copies [...]

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Wright State University Chooses Mirage to Secure Network for Gaming Consoles

Press Releases April 30th, 2008

University Deploys Automated Registration Process for Allowing Video Game Consoles on Campus Network
Mirage Networks, developer of patented, full-cycle Network Access Control (NAC) technology, today announced that Wright State University has optimized their Mirage deployment to allow for a streamlined authentication procedure for student gaming consoles.
Gaming consoles such as the Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation [...]

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