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Jerry Bruckheimer Games Gets Leads

Jerry Bruckheimer and MTV Games announced two executive appointments that officially mark the producer’s entrance into the videogame industry. Industry veterans, Jim Veevaert and Jay Cohen, will lead Jerry Bruckheimer Games, Inc. as President of Production and President of Development respectively.

Veevaert and Cohen will build a creative IP development studio focused on the development and production of interactive content and original intellectual property that convey and reflect the sensibility of Jerry Bruckheimer's other creative ventures.

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Allegorithmic's Substance Air Now Available to Customers Worldwide

Press Release from Allegorithmic

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France -- May 7, 2009 -- With more games moving online and digital distribution becoming an increasingly important business strategy for publishers, improving visual quality and allowing user-generated content while containing client size and broadening the audience has become a critical challenge. Allegorithmic, an emerging 3D technology company developing advanced texturing tools for real-time 3D content creation, is filling this immediate market need through the worldwide availability of Substance Air.

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EA Redwood Shores Becomes Visceral

Electronic Arts Inc. announced that its EA Redwood Shores Studio has been renamed and rebranded Visceral Games. The newly named studio will focus on developing action games with state-of-the-art technology, visuals, audio, and gameplay. The studio is currently working on the highly anticipated games, DANTE’S INFERNO and DEAD SPACE: EXTRACTION, as well as two other unannounced titles.

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Lionsgate Open to Games

MCVUK.com is reporting that Lionsgate is moving into games, producing casual and mobile titles from its TV and film properties. The studio is seeking developer partners to turn films like CRANK, RAMBO and SAW into playable entertainment. These new initiatives would be separate from console licensing, which Lionsgate’s president of digital media Curt Marvis thinks the company's titles are less viable.

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Triangle Game Conference 2009

By Guest (not verified) | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 11:00am
Begins: April 29, 2009

The sales of video games grew 26 percent during 2008, yet thousands of development staff lost their jobs. Why? Peter Tamte has the answer. The Triangle Game Conference (TGC), scheduled for April 29-30, 2009 at the Raleigh Convention Center and Marriott City Center, announces that day two of the conference will feature a keynote address by Peter Tamte, president of Atomic Games, which is now developing the hotly debated game SIX DAYS IN FALLUJAH.

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Atomic Games' Peter Tamte to Present Second Keynote at Triangle Game Conference

Triangle Game ConferenceRaleigh, North Carolina, USAApril 29-30, 2009

The sales of video games grew 26 percent during 2008, yet thousands of development staff lost their jobs. Why? Peter Tamte has the answer. The Triangle Game Conference (TGC), scheduled for April 29-30, 2009 at the Raleigh Convention Center and Marriott City Center, announces that day two of the conference will feature a keynote address by Peter Tamte, president of Atomic Games, which is now developing the hotly debated game SIX DAYS IN FALLUJAH.

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Create Toys and Treats in New PC Game Everything Nice

Press Release from Namco Networks

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Turn a run-down toy factory into a top-notch assembly line in EVERYTHING NICE, a casual PC game from Namco Networks, a leading publisher and developer of interactive entertainment for mass-market casual gamers, and game developer Mean Hamster Software, Inc.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Coming to Videogames

Press Release from Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. and Feld Entertainment

E3 Expo 2009NEW YORK -- From a dizzying height high above thousands of cheering circus fans in New York City's famous Madison Square Garden, 2K Play, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) and Feld Entertainment, Inc. revealed that RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY will be taking the excitement of "The Greatest Show on Earth" to the next level by partnering to develop circus-themed video games.

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Digital Musings From the Editor:

With BATTLESTAR GALACTICA wrapping up its successful four-year run on Sci Fi Channel last week, we dispatched Tara Bennett to get an insightful overview from Gary Hutzel, the vfx supervisor, and Ron Moore, the creator and exec producer. And with GDC happening this week in San Francisco, we sent Evan Goncalo, currently a game development teacher at Bristol Community College, to blog daily from the conference and exhibition floor, and our old friend Christopher Harz to blog about the Serious Games Summit.

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OnLive Game Service to Deliver Top-Tier Videogames Over the Internet

OnLive Inc. has emerged from seven years of stealth development within the Rearden incubator to unveil The OnLive Game Service and OnLive MicroConsole at the 2009 Game Developers Conference.

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Escape Studios Offers New Classroom-based Games Course

Learn how to create artwork required to land a job in the games industry with Escape's new classroom-based Games Course. Taught by Simon Fenton, former lead artist at Sony Computer Entertainment London, Escape's games course will teach students how to take art direction and create realistic models and environments for games. Using leading technology such as Maya, Photoshop, ZBrush, CrazyBump and the renowned Unreal engine, this comprehensive 12 week course will equip students with the necessary skills, and a demo reel, for pursuing a job in game development.

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Sci Fi Launches Ventures for New Games, Online Destinations

Sci Fi has partnered with Acclaim Games and ZooKazoo to develop a new series of online games and entertainment destinations. The partnerships will offer Sci Fi consumers a robust and imaginative series of immersive casual games that embody the broad appeal of the SCI FI brand. The ZooKazoo partnership represents Sci Fi's first strategic move into the youth market.

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Lionsgate Feasts on The Hunger Games

Lionsgate has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film version of Suzanne Collins' best selling futuristic young adult novel THE HUNGER GAMES. Collins will adapt the screenplay from her novel, the first in a trilogy.

Nina Jacobson is producing through her Color Force shingle.

THE HUNGER GAMES was published by Scholastic last year. The trilogy's second installment, CATCHING FIRE, is due out September 1, 2009.

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Titmouse Execs Declare 'We Make Games!'

Titmouse Inc., the creative force behind METALOCALYPSE, one of Cartoon Network's highest rated Adult Swim animated-series, announced the creation of its own original game development studio, Titmouse Games.

Whether you know their name or not, you know their work. Animators at Titmouse are the masterminds behind cult favorites like AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, AFRO SAMURAI and THE AMAZING SCREW ON HEAD.

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WIA Presents: Building Your Own Website 101 and Beyond

By Guest (not verified) | Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 11:00am
Begins: February 26, 2009

If you are itching to create your own website or you already have one but are looking for a way to improve it, come join WIA for an evening with Richard Carey. This meeting is produced by Masako Kanayama.

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Ludia Finds Waldo

Interactive entertainment company Ludia will create video games based on publishing phenomenon and ultimate world traveler, WHERE'S WALDO?.

Through the exclusive multi-year deal with rights-holder Entertainment Rights, the pop culture icon will leap from the pages of his best-selling books to engaging new games for consoles, PC/Mac, iPhone and iPod touch -- for the first time. The first in the game series, WHERE'S WALDO?: THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY is slated to launch across several major platforms later this year.

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Warner Bros. Home Ent. Acquires Snowblind Studios

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has acquired Snowblind Studios, an award winning, independent game development studio specializing in action and fantasy-based games.

Located outside of Seattle in Bothell, Washington, Snowblind Studios is known for the popular action role-playing games, BALDUR’S GATE: DARK ALLIANCE, CHAMPIONS OF NORRATH and JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES. The studio was founded in 1997.

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2009 GDC Choice Awards Name Special Winners, Host

The 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards, the highest honors in game development acknowledging excellence in game creation, have named the recipients of two of its special awards, while also revealing that popular host of the 2007 Awards and Double Fine founder Tim Schafer is returning to present this year's Choice Awards.

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