The call has gone out to interactive entertainment artists worldwide: Into The Pixel is now accepting submissions for its 2008 exhibition. The ESA, AIAS, and LACMA have all combined the power of their acronyms to once again host ITP, which will collect the very finest in game-inspired art, create expert prints, and display them in [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2008
Blockbuster, the movie rental powerhouse, recently announced plans to expand its video game business, but despite the strong storefront presence of Blockbuster in the U.S., Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets believes the company does not pose a significant threat to GameStop.
Continue reading...29. April 2008
On Thursday, former Apple executive Clent Richardson became Immersion’s new CEO, and now, rumors abound that the company’s haptic technology will become a fixture of the next iPhone. Many smartphone enthusiasts are speculating the tech will primarily address the woes of typing on a virtual keyboard — but you and I know the iPhone is [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2008
Ubisoft has put up a new video this morning, which some folks are saying could be a hint at Rayman Raving Rabbids 3. No official press releases or announcements have arrived yet from Ubi, but… well, hit the link and take a look for yourself.
Continue reading...28. April 2008
In other news in no way related to a certain game that shall remain nameless, William Gordon, the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts, is leaving his full time position with the company to join the venture capital firm KPCB as a Partner. Kleiner Perkins Caufiled & Byers is a storied firm that [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2008
GameCyte looks at a new casual browser game that might have the power to teach.
Continue reading...28. April 2008
The acquisition hunger that afflicts game publishers has apparently extended to ye olde Europe. Infogrames recently acknowledged that the company made a buyout bid for SCi. This revelation comes on the heels of SCi’s announcement that the U.K.-based company has received an influx of capital from Warner Bros.
Continue reading...28. April 2008
Get it? Slings Mud? Because Bartle designed… you know? Sure you do. We spotted this through Destructoid, and we’d like to call your attention to it as well: Richard Bartle, one of the original fathers of multiplayer online gaming, has penned a column for The Guardian. Taking some time away from his fellowship at the University [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2008
We’ve already heard that Grand Theft Auto IV will probably outsell Halo 3; and this won’t be the first time Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter has estimated the game will move 9 million copies. But now, Pachter tells the Associated Press that the game won’t sell that nine million over the course of the year, [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2008
What is it about the hot new item that makes people do crazy things? Ars Technica has a report, citing a source inside UPS, that a “surprising amount” of UPS employees have been caught stealing copies of Grand Theft Auto IV out of packages bound for retail outlets. Guys, it comes out in 12 hours. [...]
Continue reading...
29. April 2008
0 Comments