InstantAction, the website for gamers that combines the intensity of videogames with the accessibility of the web, today unveiled the public beta for “Fallen Empire: Legions.” The game is available to play simply by signing up at www.instantaction.com.
“Launching ‘Fallen Empire: Legions’ is a huge milestone for the company,” said Josh Williams, CEO of GarageGames. [...]

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All-New Original IP Features Six Popular Summer Sports
THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) today announced Big Beach Sports™ has shipped to retail outlets throughout North America exclusively for Wii™. The game will be available in Europe on June 26th and in Asia Pacific on June 27th. Now you can experience the fun of the beach regardless of [...]

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GTA 4 helps videogame industry in April
Grand Theft Auto 4 was launched recently and the game helped boosting the sales of videogames last month.
Research Company NPD stated that the video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier in the month of April.
Nintendo Wii continues to sell in large numbers and the [...]

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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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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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Sony working on boosting Playstation 2 sales in India!
While the Japanese videogame console maker is concentrating on the Playstation 3 in the international markets, they are focusing on the older PS2 here in India.
Sony is going to work with 13 Indian game developers to develop games for the Indian gamers.
They are aiming to develop games [...]

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Vixture gaming championship in India
Zero Friction has announced that they are collaborating with videogame publisher Electronic Arts to launch a new gaming championship in India.
They have named this new tournament Vixture.
This tournament would have prize money of Rs. 50 lakhs making it the largest of its kind in India.
The company said that this tournament [...]

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NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS), the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announces the hiring of David Reid as vice president of marketing for the company’s North American business.
Reid comes to NCsoft from GameTap, the online gaming service from Turner Broadcasting, where he served as vice president of marketing. Prior to that [...]

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Videogame industry had a smash hit March
NPD Group has reported that the month of March was an excellent one for the videogame industry.
The US retail market saw a massive improvement in terms of sales of videogames.
NPD analyst Anita Frazier spoke about their research: “You’d never know that the U.S. economy was under distress by [...]

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New Store Design and Navigation Features Make Shopping for PLAYSTATION(R)Network Games and Content Faster and Easier
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today introduced a new, more dynamic look and faster, more fluid navigation to PLAYSTATION(R)Store for PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)). As part of the revamp, PLAYSTATION Store, previously a Web-based storefront, now lives natively as an application on [...]

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Technology II, Electronic Games
Americans watched more than 10 billion videos online in February 2008 according to a report from comScore Video Metrix. Fifty million of those were advertisements on the AdverGame Network. This group of online casual game sites is selling product and helping at least one woman not to cook.
“My daughter was walking [...]

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Ubisoft Entertainment acquires a game studio in Pune India
Ubisoft Entertainment is the Europe’s largest videogame publisher.
The company has now announced their plans to expand their presence in the Indian market.
Ubisoft is now acquiring a video game development studio from Gameloft located in the Pune city.
This studio has a team of around 120 developers and [...]

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Worms 2008: A Space Oddity announced
THQ Wireless is collaborating with Team17 Software on a new mobile game title Worms 2008: A Space Oddity.
The company said that Worms 2008: A Space Oddity would be an entirely new game but would feature the same game play of the classic Worms game.
This new game would also feature 4 [...]

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Sequel to Multi-Million Unit Selling Real Time Strategy Series Features Vicious Frontline Combat, Extensive Co-Op Campaign and Cinematic Visuals
THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) today announced that Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II, the highly anticipated sequel from one of the industry’s premiere Real-Time Strategy (RTS) developers, Relic Entertainment, is scheduled to bring the 41st Millennium’s [...]

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UK and European Finals to take place at CGS Studios in Los Angeles
Championship Gaming Series® (CGS), the only worldwide professional video gaming league, today announced its 2008 Qualifier and Draft events for the United Kingdom and Europe. Top UK and European gamers will compete for a share of 35,000 euros [...]

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Boss Media (STO:BOSS) acquires Dynamite Idea of England, a world leading supplier of fixed odds games for many of the leading e-gaming brands such as Ladbrokes and Unibet. The acquisition of Dynamite Idea extends Boss Media’s instant games portfolio based on Flash technology.
“Dynamite Idea is a leading game development studio with a proven and [...]

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Featured Titles Include Saints Row™ 2, Red Faction®: Guerrilla™ and de Blob™
Leading video game publisher THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) will today unveil key titles in its fiscal 2009 line-up across all major game systems at a Game Press Event in San Francisco, California. The event will feature the latest editions of multi-million unit franchises, including [...]

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Event Open to All Call of Duty 2 Users
Xfire, one of the fastest growing online gaming communities and Exent Technologies, the market leader in establishing additional release windows for video games, have teamed to offer in-game, interactive, treasure-hunt tournament to Call of Duty 2 users, leveraging Exent’s AdMuse® technology.
Xfire and Exent have utilized [...]

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TAITO Brings Two Classic Arcade Games to the Handheld Arena on June 17th, 2008
TAITO Corporation (TAITO™), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Co., Ltd., announced today that it is launching all-new versions of two of its classic arcade games.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of SPACE INVADERS® – a worldwide sensation since its original [...]

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“Overall the Games industry demonstrated that it is moving up on the maturity curve for outsourcing and there is now a determined strategic intent when Studios carve out their outsourcing strategies.” Rahul points out.
Hyderabad, India – April 02, 2008 – Speaking to an audience of over 150 studio executives at the 2008 Game Developers [...]

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