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  • by Quinton Miles

    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, [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    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 [...]

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