2005 June

Thursday 30 June 2005 - Guild Wars has developed a reputation for its firm emphasis on strategic combat, in both Player vs. Player and co-operative play. Never one to sit on its laurels, NCsoft Europe has confirmed that ArenaNetTM, the creators of Guild Wars, has announced plans to refine the reward system further, allowing players […]

Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America’s Vice President recently said in an interview with EGM that just because “you and your fans haven’t seen the controller doesn’t mean that no one else has. The thing that I always find surprising, and certainly in the last year I’ve had wonderful opportunities to spend quality time with a number […]

SAN DIEGO, CA – June 29, 2005 – Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online (MMO) gaming, yesterday released The Splitpaw Saga, the second exciting adventure pack for EverQuest II. Available via digital download for US $7.99, The Splitpaw Saga gives players hours of new story-rich content to explore.

NEW YORK, June 29, 2005 – Peter Moore, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Publishing, Home and Entertainment Division, for its revolutionary and much-anticipated, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, will deliver a keynote address at Ziff Davis’ DigitalLife event in New York City. Mr. Moore will open the event on Friday morning, […]

GameDaily Biz is running an interview with Chris Donahue, the Group Manager for Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies at Microsoft. It’s pretty long and exhaustive, but it covers some of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes at DirectX and how it keeps up with the technology curve.

28 June 2005 – Consumers across Europe have picked the Nintendo DS as their console of choice with over one million consoles having flown off the shelves in just three months since launch.

Merrill Lynch Japan Securities, in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Toyo Keizai, released an early analysis of that a single Playstation 3 will initially cost Sony $494 to produce in 2006, with the main components (Cell, RSX, and BD-ROM drive) costing $101.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is proud to announce the very first Blizzard Convention, to take place on October 28 & 29 in Orange County, California. BlizzCon is a celebration of our Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises and the players who have helped make them so popular around the world.

What is content? Is it just words provided to you by a publisher, or could content be more broadly defined as anything that is deliverable? If that is the case, then content syndication is more powerful than anyone has imagined.
RSS is going to be everywhere. Heck, even Chris Pirillo has pointed out that American Express […]

The Playstation 3 will use Sony’s Blu-Ray DVD’s, but with Microsoft’s announced partnership with Toshiba, the Xbox 360 may use HD-DVD … or will it?
“The initial shipments of the Xbox 360 will be based on today’s standard DVD format,” Gates said, “We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox will incorporate an additional capability […]

Activision has released a new set of screenshots from Ultimate Spider-Man, which will be available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC and Nintendo DS later this fall. The game is based around the popular Venom storyline that was featured a few years ago in the pages of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book.

Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, announced that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 3 (working title), the next installment in the smash-hit squad-based action franchise, will officially be known as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Scheduled to ship for Holiday 2005, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter focuses on the deployment of […]

Midway Games and MTV announced a partnership which will result in the two companies selling in-game advertising as well as development of soundtracks for three upcoming games. According to the deal, MTV will share in a royalty-sharing system.
L.A. Rush will see “MTV branding throughout the game world,” including the cast from MTV’s Pimp My Ride.
This […]

Staten Island, NY, June 28th, 2005 - Matrix Games and Slitherine Strategies are pleased to announce that Spartan, the classic empire-building and ancient battles game, is now available for purchase as a digital download from the Matrix Games website.

Recently, the folks at 1080up.org posted a comment, inviting me to their site as they try to gain support for their campaign (so to say) to get Nintendo to support High Definition on their next console.
I grew up on Nintendo and and love the brand. When I grew up I had a very unhealthy amount […]

Is realism in gaming a selling point? Maybe sometimes, but when it comes to space-based gaming, it’s probably better to stick with what’s fun and sweep some of the realism under the galactic carpet..

Front Mission 4, for the Playstation 2, could be described as Final Fantasy meets strategy. While the storyline is stupid, the mix of RPG elements with turn-based strategy brings this cheap game to the status of greatness.
As I said, the story is, well, stupid. It’s pretty much the same damn story that every RPG […]

GameSpot Complete members are now getting to beta test the GameCenter serivce.
“The GameCenter service lets online gamers interact with one another through several online games, including the popular first-person shooters Counter-Strike: Source and Unreal Tournament 2004. GC provides connection to PC games with hosted lag-free servers, as well as provides stat-tracking leaderboards, team management, sponsored […]

Austin, TX - June 27 - The mobile gaming world is going to shake when the legendary QUAKE hits handsets later this year. Thanks to an agreement announced today between id Software and publisher Pulse Interactive, the blockbuster first person action shooter created by id SoftwareTM is rolling onto a new generation of 3D-enabled mobile […]

NEW YORK - The World Cyber Games, the premiere international computer and video gaming festival, in conjunction with iGames, the leading international game center organizer, today announced the dates and locations for the regional qualifier stages of the 2005 USA championship.