Oddworld Inhabitants today announced the updated release schedule for its critically-acclaimed, award-winning classics, Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath and Oddworld Munch’s Oddysee for the PlayStation 3.
SEGA® Studios Australia are pleased to announce their new name and corporate image.
Rovio, the creator of the ANGRY BIRDS game franchise, has purchased the Finnish animation house Kombo, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
Social gaming giant Zynga has launched the new game EMPIRES & ALLIES, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
David O. Russell has dropped out of Sony's adaptation of the PS3 game UNCHARTED: DRAKE'S FORTUNE, reports Variety. The reason is being reported as creative differences. Russell was also set to rewrite the script from Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. The studio is still looking for a scribe to rework the script.
Sony reports that its sites in Canada, Thailand and Indonesia have been hacked, writes Variety.
Square Enix is pleased to announce the launch of FINAL FANTASY® XI Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition which offers the entirety of all FINAL FANTASY XI content to date in one digital package.
Globex Studios, an online game developer and publisher with offices in Los Angeles, CA, Taipei, Taiwan and Beijing and Tianjin, China, announced today that online video game veteran Jason Bell has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Products.
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq:DWA), Paramount Pictures and Zynga (www.zynga.com) today announced a new in-game item and quest for players of the popular game CityVille to promote the opening of Kung Fu Panda 2, which debuts in theaters on Thursday, May 26th.
At GDC, Arti Gupta chatted with Blizzard Entertainment’s Frank Pearce about the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, as well as integrating mobile phone applications to support the experience of their core games and developing for fans new and old alike.
Further building Atlanta-based Primal Screen’s (www.primalscreen.com) portfolio of dynamic, multiplatform media for the children’s broadcast market, the creative studio announced it completed another integrated entertainment and education program – this time for The Electric Company’s math-literacy segment Prankster Planet, involving on-air animation paired with online learning games and a printed activity workbook.
In a nutshell, it seems that the players, the games, the business models, the game delivery mechanisms, the platforms, the market size and the way players interact with games have all changed. And through it all, the PC -- the most open and innovative of all the gaming platforms -- is experiencing a renaissance.
The Walt Disney Company today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter and six months ended April 2, 2011.
The 16th FMX Conference on Animation, Games, Effects and Interactive Media ended yesterday achieving remarkable successes!
The 16th FMX Conference on Animation, Games, Effects and Interactive Media ended yesterday achieving remarkable successes!
Rock Hippo Productions Ltd is pleased to announce that its new Zombie Mode for the anime inspired third person MMO shooter, MicroVolts will launch next Thursday, May 5th.
Following a hack of its system, PlayStation Network has issued a letter to its customers that their personal information has been compromised and they cannot rule out credit card information from that information.
Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Treyarch revealed today that famed horror and action stars Robert Englund, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael Rooker and Danny Trejo have joined the cast of Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation's zombie level, Call of the Dead.
Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of games for the mass market, announced its Left Brain Right Brain App is now available on the App Store.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. has decided to launch in 2012 a system to succeed Wii, which the company has sold 86.01 million units on a consolidated shipment basis between its launch in 2006 and the end of March 2011.
Ant Farm, Mi6’s agency of the year, engaged in a unique collaboration with Zoic Studios to create a game trailer for the upcoming title Inversion.
Jump down the rabbit hole! Fans may think they’re seeing double, but it’s not Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum; it’s a double dose of Alice from American McGee.
I remember texturing a character who wore jeans. I’ll never forget the worn-denim masterpiece I’d spent way too long tweaking in Photoshop. You could see every frayed thread on those western-stitched pockets. You could feel the comfy, broken-in fit. So imagine my surprise when the character’s legs showed up completely black in the game engine.
Looking to imbue the just-released trailer for Call of Juarez: The Cartel -- the next chapter in their popular western themed shooter franchise (due out this summer) -- with a modern look and a powerful ‘Hollywood blockbuster’ feel, game developer Ubisoft again tapped the multi-disciplined creative design/visual effects studio yU+co to execute the project’s complex motion capture, design, 3D animation and visual effects.
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium now runs on NVIDIA GPUs utilizing NVIDIA Fermi architecture, unleashing real-time video editing and effects-processing capabilities for the professional market.
