Category Archives: News and Industry Happenings

Games help Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

We all are professionals that need to follow somebody's instructions, to meet the deadlines and to work after hours from time to time. Yes, our kids have computers and those cute games installed on them. Confess that you also have a couple of games running on your PC. Would we want to feel like home everywhere? Is playing the game from a wide screen of our PC (either Windows, Mac, or Linux) on our PDAs brings us sweet home memories? If it does, then we should stop burning ourselves down and take a time out to relax while playing our … Continue reading Games help Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

UBISoft Releases Race For Presidency Game

Ubisoft, a leading company in the multimedia industry, announced with Stardock Entertainment the release of The Political Machine, which ships today to retailers nationwide. A PC-CD strategy game based on data collected from surveys, exit polls, and the 2000 U.S. Census, The Political Machine users are challenged to spend 41 weeks on the campaign trail, serving as a campaign manager for a presidential candidate. In an effort to secure a spot in the Oval Office, the user is tasked to secure the greatest number of electoral votes and utilize the various facets of political strategy. Players can design their own … Continue reading UBISoft Releases Race For Presidency Game

Madden NFL 2005 Ships

Signaling the start of football season, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that Madden NFL 2005, the flagship EA SPORTS videogame and the largest-selling franchise of all time in North America, with over 37 million copies sold, has shipped to retailers nationwide and will be in stores in time for National Madden Vacation Day on Tuesday, August 10th. Madden NFL 2005 celebrates the franchise's fifteenth anniversary by pushing the boundaries of realism forward with new defensive innovations including the Hit Stick, that for the first time make playing defense as fun as playing offense, an immersive new Storyline Central in Franchise … Continue reading Madden NFL 2005 Ships

LucasFilm To Set Up in Singapore

A slice of Hollywood glamour landed in Singapore yesterday, as the film company behind blockbusters Star Wars and Indiana Smith announced plans to set up a production studio here, its first foray outside the US. By early next year, Lucasfilm – headed by the iconic director George Lucas – will set up a digital animation studio producing films, television shows and games in Singapore. It aims to create a new style of animation here by blending East and West. The firm plans to eventually hire up to 300 content producers, directors, artists, designers and story writers here, who will work … Continue reading LucasFilm To Set Up in Singapore

Legacy Beta Testing New Law and Order Game

Legacy Interactive, a leading games developer bringing television's greatest dramas to life on the PC, announced today that beta testing is underway for Law & Order: Justice is Served. Selected from sign-ups on the Legacy Interactive Web site, approximately 50 beta testers will take part in a two week evaluation of an in progress version of the game before it ships to stores. Law & Order: Justice is Served will be distributed by Vivendi Universal Games and is slated to ship September 30, 2004. Based on the Emmy Award-winning TV drama, "Law & Order", Law & Order: Justice is Served … Continue reading Legacy Beta Testing New Law and Order Game

Altec Ships New Gaming Headset

Altec Lansing Technologies, Inc., the leader in the design and manufacture of Powered Audio products, today unleashed its AHS602 Headset, the most satisfying, pulse-pounding personal audio experience yet for computer game users. The AHS602 plunges the wearer into the middle of the action using two high-performance, 40mm neodymium drivers combined with SRS Headphone technology-a patented 3-D breakthrough from SRS Labs that repositions sound from inside the listener's head to outside the listener's ears, creating a natural, yet awesomely intense audio effect. Altec Lansing's AHS602 is a premium headset for serious gamers. Featuring a noise-rejecting wraparound microphone for hands-free operation, the … Continue reading Altec Ships New Gaming Headset

Merscom, CITY Ink Multi Title Deal

Merscom LLC today announced an agreement with CITY Interactive to publish three of the developer’s PC games in North America: Space Interceptor: Project Freedom, a space arcade combat game, Terrorist Takedown, a military arcade shooter, and WWII Fighter Pilot, a flight arcade combat game. All games are value-priced at $19.99 USD and scheduled for Q4 2004 release. "We’re pleased to form this multi-title relationship with a developer like CITY Interactive," said Lloyd Melnick, Director of Merscom. "All three of these games represent what we believe both Merscom and CITY do best — bring to market quality games with across the … Continue reading Merscom, CITY Ink Multi Title Deal

Gizmondo Gets New Developer

Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based, Tiger Telematics Inc (TGTL: former symbol TIGR), announced today the acquisition of a European leading games developer, Indie Studios. The acquisition further enables Indie Studios to extend its next level gaming under the Gizmondo brand, while providing Gizmondo with secured immediate and future game content and a captive long term creative resource. The deal will be paid for with 1 million shares common stock of the Tiger Telematics, Inc, and a contingent shares to be issued in the event that certain games are completed by Indie in an agreed time frame. The guaranteed … Continue reading Gizmondo Gets New Developer

JAMDAT Gets Award

Global wireless entertainment publisher JAMDAT Mobile Inc. announced today that "Bejeweled Multiplayer" was chosen as "Best Mobile Phone Game" at "G-Phoria – The Award Show 4 Gamers" – on July 31, 2004 in Los Angeles. Premiering on G4techTV on Friday, August 6 at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT, "G-Phoria" is a celebration of video game culture that honors special achievement in interactive entertainment. Winning games were determined by nearly 500,000 gamers who voted online. "Bejeweled Multiplayer" is a fast-paced wireless game that allows gamers to engage in exciting head-to-head matches with other players using wireless phones across town or across … Continue reading JAMDAT Gets Award

Konami to Release Silent Hill 4 Soundtrack

Konami Digital Entertainment – America, a division of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced that it will release a special soundtrack for its highly anticipated video game Silent Hill 4: The Room(tm). The soundtrack will contain 20 vocal and instrumental tracks from the critically acclaimed survival-horror game, including 13 songs available only in the United States. Additionally, the soundtrack will contain a number of special remixes that have been mixed and re-arranged by the series’ renowned producer and talented music composer Akira Yamaoka. A must-have for any fan of the series, Silent Hill 4: The Room’s soundtrack is available as … Continue reading Konami to Release Silent Hill 4 Soundtrack