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, [...]

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 [...]

Video games are well on their way to becoming the top entertainment form here in the United States, but it looks like the United Kingdom has beaten us to the punch. According a recent study released by Verdict Research, the UK’s game market will grow by 1.37 this year, putting it ahead of both music [...]

The ESA announced this afternoon that its annual Nite to Unite charity gala raised $750,000 for various children’s charities. The sold-out event took place on October 22 in San Francisco, CA.

“The videogame industry’s commitment to giving back is stronger than ever,” said ESA president and CEO Michael Gallagher in a statement.
“For ten years now, Nite [...]

THQ is slated to shut down five studios this week, according to a news post made earlier today at Kotaku. Among the studios closing are Paradigm Entertainment and Locomotive. CEO Brian Farrell later confirmed the closings a few hours later, via a letter to his employees.
As you know, the past year has been a challenging [...]

After being dropped by Activision Blizzard, both The Chronicles of Riddick and Ghostbusters games have found the same new home. According to Variety’s Ben Fritz, Atari has bought the publishing rights to both titles, confirming (at least for Ghostbusters) the last few months of rumors. In addition to picking up Riddick, Atari also signed a [...]

Avalanche Studios, developers of Just Cause, announced earlier today that 77 people in their company have been laid off due to lost contacts over the last year.

“We lost the first deal in February but we could survive that one because we had a shortage of staff in other projects and we decided to put together [...]

The E3 of old is back at the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2009, and will be for the two years that follow as well. Both the Convention and Visitors Bureau confirmed that the event will stay at the center until at least 2011, and think that it will attract quite a crowd.
“There is much [...]

Earlier this year, Legendary Pictures announced that it would be co-financing the upcoming movie adaptation of Gears of War. Apparently, they’re liking it so much they’ve decided to buy the company, as Variety’s Ben Fritz is now reporting that they are in serious talks to acquire Epic Games.
One of the major figures pushing for this [...]

A day after rumors started to appear concerning the new E3 format, the ESA confirmed the reports themselves by announcing the show’s new format for 2009. Staying at the LA Convention Center, the show will be expanded and should be much easier to qualify for attendance. In addition, non-ESA members can also attend, which will [...]