ROCK BAND will be released on Wii this summer in the U.S. and Canada.
The game was developed by Harmonix and MTV Games, along with distribution partner Electronic Arts.
ROCK BAND for Wii will be released June 22 as a Special Edition bundle including the software, drums, microphone and a wireless guitar for the US and Canada for $169.99.
Full episodes of SOUTH PARK are now available for free on the official website: www.southparkstudios.com.
The full library includes 3,000 video clips and every episode of the popular animated Comedy Central show.
The new beta site also includes a new avatar creator, where you can create your very own SOUTH PARK fourth grader, adult, kindergartner or Canadian.
Toyota is sponsoring the episodes for now; you can skip forward and backward through the program but cannot during the advertisements.
New teen virtual community, VizWoz (www.vizwoz.com) launches Friday in the UK.
VizWoz is a dynamic virtual world for teens offering entertainment, interaction and advanced game play through new and innovative technology.
The visual world of VizWoz is set to be a mass market highly immersive online gaming experience aimed at 11-14 year olds.
VizWoz was founded by serial entrepreneur, Daniel Laurence who also successfully founded School Stickers, UK's largest sticker company and MyStickers, UK's largest school incentive and reward initiative.
Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, announced SOUL BUBBLES, an enchanting action-puzzle game is coming to Nintendo DS.
Experience the soulful stories of a young shaman apprentice entrusted with saving lost spirits and steering them to safety.
Under the guidance of his master, he must protect these fragile souls from the hostile and dangerous world around them by creating mystic bubbles to guide them on their spiritual journey.
Two GDH titles, THE TOWER OF DRUAGA - THE AEGIS OF URUK and BLASSREITER, two new animated series produced by its main production subsidiary GONZO K.K. will be made available online for viewers overseas on the same day of TV broadcast in Japan.
Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group's digital sites, which reach 20 million game players monthly, are adding 1,600 new games to an existing library of 5,000 games, along with new tools for users to build their own games and several demographic-focused gaming sites.
The game expansion plans will roll out across all of the Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group's digital sites, which include: Nickjr.com, Nick.com, Nicktropolis.com, NickArcade.com, TurboNick.com, Neopets.com, AddictingGames.com, The-N.com and Shockwave.com.
Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, has closed an agreement with Tom Clancy to acquire all intellectual property rights to the Clancy name.
The agreement is on a perpetual basis and free of all related future royalty payments, for use in video games and ancillary products including related books, movies and merchandising products.
The price of the all-cash acquisition was not currently disclosed.
Harlequin Enterprises finalized an agreement by their Japanese operation, Harlequin K.K., to provide digital manga content to SoftBank Creative of SoftBank Group, one of the largest providers of cell phone services in Japan.
Harlequin is the global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction.
Beginning in April 2008 SoftBank will distribute digital versions of Harlequin K.K.'s successful comics on cell phones and Internet distribution sites.
The IRON MAN video game, based on the successful Marvel comic book series and the upcoming film by Marvel Studios, will feature the voice talents of Robert Downey Jr., Terence Howard and Shaun Toub.
All three actors will reprise their onscreen roles of Tony Stark (Downey), Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Howard), and Yinsen (Toub). The IRON MAN video game launches day and date with the movie on May 2.
The British Board of Film Classification has lifted a year-long ban on MANHUNT 2, by publisher Rockstar, VARIETY reports.
Calling it an "unremittingly bleak, callous and sadistic" game, the board banned the game last year, its first refusal in a decade.
An appeals committee overturned the ban on March 14, and Rockstar will release the game in the UK in June.
MANHUNT 2 depicts a scientist who executes anyone in his path while trying to escape from a secret research facility.
U.K.'s Channel 4 announced that it has commissioned award-winning studio Aardman Animations and leading indie Lupus Films to develop a new online site devoted to animation.
The website, 4mations, will provide a lively new home for animators to view and vote on the latest and greatest animation, upload videos and games for cash prizes, get commissioned to create new work and view classics from the Channel 4 archive.
Details of the next game in the highly popular anime-inspired, sci-fi action/role playing game series SPECTROBES have been uncovered.
Disney Interactive Studios announced Wednesday the name of SPECTROBES: BEYOND THE PORTALS, the sequel to SPECTROBES, which shipped more than 1 million units worldwide and was the best-selling third-party Nintendo DS game of 2007 in North America.
Electronic Arts announced today the first details on one of interactive entertainment's most anticipated games, THE SIMS 3.
Featuring a brand new engine that has been in development for nearly three years, THE SIMS 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood right outside their door.
The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighborhood, new Create A Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization. THE SIMS 3 will launch globally in 2009.
Super Bunny, Curious George, Edgar and Ellen, and Phineas and Ferb, among others -- all popular children's television characters -- are getting into the action.
They are all recommending books for children to read and the importance of literacy as part of a joint effort between the National Education Association (NEA) and the Smart Television Alliance (STA) in support of NEA's Read Across America project.
NEA is the nation's largest professional organization with 3.2 million members.
Cookie Jar Entertainment has signed on GoFish Corporation as the exclusive in-game advertising partner for their highly anticipated online, role-playing game MAGI-NATION: BATTLE FOR THE MOONLANDS.
GoFish, a leading youth entertainment and media network, will provide content-appropriate advertising support for the free-to-play adventure game.
The advertising in MAGI-NATION: BATTLE FOR THE MOONLANDS will be seamlessly incorporated into the players' gaming experience, and will be suitable for the 8-14 year old target audience.
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Take-Two Interactive's board has refused to accept Electronic Arts' $2 billion acquisition offer, so EA is turning hostile, VARIETY reports.
The largest videogame publisher went directly to the Take-Two shareholders on Thursday, offering them $26 per share.
The move wasn't surprising as EA had already revealed its offer to the public last month, an amount Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick said was too low.
EA's bid now represents a 64 percent premium over the last day of trading before the offer was first made.
Epic Games and Valve, two of the PC industry's leading technology and content development studios, have inked an agreement to bring Epic's award-winning titles to Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with more than 15 million accounts around the world.
The Epic hits now available on Steam include Epic's debut classic, UNREAL GOLD, as well as UNREAL II: THE AWAKENING and the UNREAL TOURNAMENT series of games, including the recently released UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3, which has shipped more than a million copies to date.
After just one week on store shelves, SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL for Wii has become the fastest-selling video game in history.
Since its launch on March 9, the feature-packed fighting action game has sold more than 1.4 million units in the United States, including more than 874,000 on March 9 alone. It has sold at a rate of more than 120 units per minute between launch and March 16.
In comparison, Nintendo's SUPER MARIO GALAXY -- also considered a very successful title -- sold 500,000 units its first week last November.
HarperCollins Children's Books is set to launch Lola's Land next month, an interactive online world for tween girls, based on the character Lola Love created by Lisa Clark.
There are four new LOLA titles this year, starting with IT'S A GIRL THING and VIVA LA DIVA!,, published April 1 ahead of the site going live on April 14.
Lola's Land was created by Mykindaplace, with Sky Digital Media handling advertising sales.
The 1970s-era sci-fi fantasy magazine HEAVY METAL will be the inspiration for a Paramount Pictures animated film, led by director David Fincher, according to VARIETY.
The magazine was known for erotic and violent storylines and images, and introduced the work of American artists and writers - including Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and H.R. Giger.
Eight or nine different segments will be created for the film, each with a different director.
HarperCollins Children's Books announces the launch of its "Read It Before You See It" global digital campaign for C. S. Lewis' THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA series.
The massive Web presence focuses attention on the seven books in the series as a lead in to the Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media release of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN film on May 16.
In a strategic move to closely align itself with the strong growth of the worldwide online gaming market, Sony Computer Entertainment announced Thursday that Sony Online Entertainment will report to Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, SCEI, effective April 1, 2008.
The new structure is designed to mutually benefit both companies by further accelerating the PlayStation business through SOE's strong online gaming expertise.
San Diego-based SOE is currently part of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Two new Pokemon adventures for Nintendo DS are on the way, and Nintendo plans to reward fans for ordering early with guides to help them navigate the games.
Starting March 16, fans who place an order for either POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: EXPLORERS OF TIME or POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: EXPLORERS OF DARKNESS will receive a free, limited-edition POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON EXPLORERS GUIDE.
The guide contains an exclusive collection of tips, interviews and an original manga by Ken Sugimori, main art director of Pokemon video games.
Within the span of two days, Viacom-owned Harmonix Music Systems has filed and withdrawn a lawsuit alleging Activision owes it royalties of $14.5 million for GUITAR HERO III and other spinoff products, VARIETY reports.
Harmonix, the developer of the first two GUITAR HERO games and the ROCK BAND game, filed the suit on Monday, saying Activision improperly used their technology to create the third installment of the hugely popular franchise.
By Tuesday night, Viacom reported that it was withdrawing the suit, with discussions to commence out of court.
