News tagged with Games (30 results)
ATARI Games on Steam
Steam News
has word that a number of ATARI titles are now available for online purchase
from Steam. Current titles include Act of War: Direct Action, Act of War: High
Treason, and ArmA: Combat Operations. Going forward word is: "In the coming
weeks, The Witcher®, the award winning RPG o...
Boston Goes After Games
Menino: Ban violent vid games for kids on BostonHerald has word that Boston
is attempting to crack down on the sale of violent games to teens, the latest
locale to introduce the same type of legislation that's been struck down on
constitutional grounds in other cities and states repeatedly i...
CrossOver Games for Linux and Mac
CodeWeavers now offers CrossOver Games
for Linux and Mac, offering game-oriented Windows compatibility. There's a
preview of the program with some benchmarks on
Phoronix.
This press release has all the details, and here's the gist:Crossover
Games delivers gamers a low-cost tool allowing t...
Games for Windows Magazine Website
1Up and Microsoft Announce
that Games for Windows Magazine is going online only (thanks nin), ending a 27
year print run, mostly under the title Computer Gaming World. They express their
disappointment and link to related blogs by
Jeff
Green and
Simon
Cox, the later of which says this is...
Work at Shrapnel Games
North Carolina-based
Shrapnel Games announces, in their own roundabout way, that they are seeking
an artist, cartoonists, mimes, and "genre writers" to fill some
open positions. They outline how to submit samples of your work,
saying: "Parties that show potential will be conta...
The Games as Art Debate
Video
Game Makers Favor Diversion over Depth on NPR is a four-minute audio except
from National Public Radio's All Things Considered program discussing the
tackling of tough topics in video games. Along the way we hear from
Ian Bogost, learning that the professor of
game design at Georgia T...
Free Digital Eel Games
This Shrapnel Games Page
is the location of three titles from independent developer Digital Eel that have
all been released for free. These offerings consist of the squirmy arcade game
Plasmaworm, Big Box of Blox (described as "Tetris on
acid"), and double-IGF award-winner Dr. Blob'...
Green Screen, Zoo Games, and Ryan Brant
This press
release announces the formation of
Green Screen Interactive Software,
a global publisher of PC and console game, and their creation of Zoo Games, a
new casual game publisher they've formed by acquiring and combining
Destination Software and
ZOO Digital Publishing. On
this topic...
Download Free Games
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Philip K. Dick Games Planned
A
Guardian.co.uk Film article on Terminator movie plans discusses the game
rights to the franchise owned by Halcyon Company, and offers the first mention
of plans to take advantage of the rights they picked up last year
(story) to make games based on the works of sci-fi author Philip
K. Di...
NVIDIA on PC Exclusive Games
NVIDIA's Roy
Taylor Interview on Eurogamer talks with the NVIDIA VP of Content Business
Development in a conversation where he opines that the heyday of PC exclusive
game development is coming to a close: I think that we're going to see
more digital authentication, and we're going to see mor...
Caffeinated Games Forms
Caffeinated Games has reported
for duty, announcing their existence to the world, and saying they will brew up
their first game announcement next week sometime. Here's their announcement:
Randle, WA – June 11, 2008 - Announcing the founding of Caffeinated Games
(www.caffeinatedgames.com) an ...
Spector on Long Games
Spector:
'One Hundred Hour Games Are On The Way Out' on Gamasutra reports on Junction
Point’s Warren Spector's keynote from last week's Game Education Summit in
Dallas. Along the way he states the opinion that long games are on the way out,
which seems to conveniently coincide with his Disne...
Good Old Games Coming (Back)
CD Projekt announces the preliminary launch of
GOG.com, a marketplace for "Good Old
Games." The site, which will go live in September, will offer its titular good
old games will all necessary updates to install and run them on current
computers (including Vista support), completely ...
2K Games to Publish Champions Online
This
Cryptic Studios Press Release has word that 2K Games will publish Cryptic's
upcoming MMORPG Champions Online for PC and Xbox 360 (presuming the 360
edition is approved by Microsoft). Word is:New York, NY – July 10, 2008 –
2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, I...
Good Old Games Q&As
More interviews about yesterday's Good Old
Games announcement (story), as Tom Ohle explains the concept
of the game revival site with both
GameBanshee
and
GameCyte.
...
Games for Windows Marketplace Coming, LIVE Gold Fees Going
Gamasutra
has word that Microsoft has announced plans to introduce a Games for Windows
marketplace similar to the Xbox LIVE marketplace. They also announce plans to
offer a less console-centric Games for Windows LIVE service and confirm that
they will be dropping the premium subscription fee...
Games for Windows LIVE Gold Refunds
Ars Technica's story on Games for Windows LIVE going free (thanks Mike Martinez) has
good news for gamers who may be ticked off they ponied up for the Gold
subscription fee that is being eliminated, as MS's Kevin Unangst tells them
early adopters will be getting refunds:But that's not all. T...
Google Ad Sense for Games
Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising
has word that Google is looking to invade the in-game advertising space:Google
is the sleeping giant when it comes to advertising in video games. While the
company dominates search advertising, it has yet to make a big...
EA Giving up "Crappy" Licensed Games
A
Q&A on MTV Multiplayer with John Riccitiello is a frank discussion of EA
games with the EA CEO, who continues to speak of elevating the quality of their
output, this time specifically criticizing "crappy" licensed games, saying: "I
think what redeems our industry is qua...
Runic Games Q&A
There's a Runic
Games Q&A on GameBanshee where Runic's Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer
answer questions about the new company. Of course curiosity still lingers about
what happened at Flagship Studios, and Max also answers a question about
that:I could go on for days answering this quest...
2K Games at the Gate
GamersGate announces the addition of
titles from 2K Games to their online game marketplace. Word is: "The first
titles to be released under this agreement will be the strategy titles: Sid
Meier’s Civilization® III: Complete and Shattered Union. Additional titles will
follow, including t...
Nordic Games Formed; Wants to be "IKEA of Games"
MCV
reports that Scandinavian game distributor
Game Outlet has moved into the game publishing space, forming a new
subsidiary Nordic Games. The publisher will focus on casual and mid-priced games
for the PS2, Wii, DS and PC to start, but will look to evolve past that in the
future, and wor...
On AU Games Classification
Australian Classification Board Speaks On Games, R18+ & Fallout 3 on Kotaku
Australia has a Q&A with the folks in charge of censoring media content in
Australia after Fallout 3's recent brush with prohibition
(story) and subsequent censorship for sale down under
(story). Interestin...
EA: Second-Hand Games a "Critical Situation"
Electronic Arts considers second-hand game sales a "critical situation" reports
GamesIndustry.biz in a bit of from an interview with EA's Jens Uwe Intat
that will published in its entirety tomorrow. According to Intat, senior VP and
general manager for European publishing at EA, the...
Video Games Contribute to Pro Tennis Split
Brad Gilbert admits poor relationship with Andy Murray but backs Scot for
success follows-up on a split between Andy Murray, the number-one ranked
tennis player in the UK, and Brad Gilbert, an American tennis coach who has
contributed to the success of Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick. Gilbert ...
Video Games Live Glimpse
There's an "audio
slideshow" on CNET offering sounds and images from the Video Games Live show
that tours the world in celebration of the music of video games. This includes a
conversation with prolific game music composer Tommy Tallarico, who is one of
the driving forces behind th...
Good Old Games Beta Next Week
GOG.com, the home of Good Old Games,
announces plans to launch beta testing of the service on Monday September 8,
saying that anyone who signs up between now and September 7 will gain access to
the test. Good Old Games will offer older games with full XP and Vista
compatibility and no DRM, a...
LucasArts: Internal Star Wars Games Didn't "Set the Bar High Enough"
Lack of
ambition to blame for previous Star Wars flops, admits LucasArts on EuroGamer
quotes comments by Cameron Suey of LucasArts at GC 2008 in Liepzig saying that
the shortcomings of the company's past internal Star Wars titles because the
license is so great that it's "really easy to...
Wright: Spore "Will Change the Way People Look at Games Forever"
Spore - changing the
game is a BBC article talking with Maxis about Spore, getting Will
Wright to overcome his aversion to hype, quoting the designer as saying: "Spore
will change the way people look at games forever and change hopefully the
perception people have of their own creativit...
