Think Services announced recently that they have opened up speaker submissions for next’s year GDC Canada event. Tracks for the event will be organized into various areas of production, including concept, production, and post-launch.
In addition, Think Services also revealed the dates for the event. Taking place at the Vancouver Convention and Exposition Centre in Vancouver, [...]

Gamers who held off on the console versions of Mirror’s Edge to get the PC edition will get a bit of a bonus, as DICE announced yesterday it will support NVIDIA’s Physx tech for the game’s effects.
“Faith’s world in Mirror’s Edge is visceral, immediate, and very dangerous; it is imperative that the gameplay reflect this [...]

Electronic Arts has shut down their Blueprint division, according to a recent news report by Variety. Started in 2007 as a way to develop new IP, the branch also had ownership of several projects in the works at EA, including the remaining Steven Spielberg titles.
It seems there were around a dozen people working on Blueprint [...]

Koei’s merger with Tecmo is now official and will begin taking place next April, according to a report on Reuters. The merger will be a stock deal that is said to be worth 20 billion yen ($207 million).
Each Tecmo share will be exchanged for 0.9 shares in the holding company, while one share in the [...]

Square-Enix recently revealed that it has signed its first western game development deal with Gas Powered Games. This is somewhat of a big deal considering the company hasn’t really expanded outside of Japan or the RPG genre, but it seems like they’re ready for challege according to a new interview with Gamesindustry.biz:
“The strategic partnership with [...]

EA Sports seems to be ridding themselves of their excess sports licenses, and began doing so earlier this year when they dropped the college baseball license. Last night, the Sports Business Journal revealed that EA’s not done yet, as they’ve also dropped Arena League Football.
According to SBJ, 2008 was the end of a three-year deal [...]

After sticking to the release launch of “sometime in 2009″ for quite a while now, Capcom let the cat out of the bag last week and revealed the official release date for their highly-anticipated fighter, Street Fighter IV.
Good news, everyone! We’re pleased to announce that all of y’all in North America will be able to [...]

Rock Band’s DLC for the week of November 18 was announced earlier today by Harmonix.
Dead Kennedys 3 Pack
California Uber Alles
Holiday In Cambodia
Police Truck
Mission Of Burma 3 Pack
Mica
That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
That’s When I Reach For My Revolver
Century Media Girls of Metal 3 Pack
In This Moment - Forever
Lacuna Coil - Closer
Lacuna Coil - Swamped
Crooked [...]

If the recent state of the economy had any effect at all on Nintendo, it’s very difficult to tell judging from their sales numbers in this month’s NPD Group report. Nintendo sold a whopping 803K units of their Wii consoles, followed by 491K units of the Nintendo DS.
As far as consoles go, Microsoft had a [...]

Ever since Wii Fit arrived on the scene a couple of months ago, many people knew it was only a matter of time before other games arrived to directly compete with it. Biggest Loser host Jillian Michaels’ game recently released, and today Electronic Arts gives it another rival as they’ve announced their game, EA Sports [...]