2005 August

31st August 2005, Games Market Europe, London / Rising Star Games, the European arm of Japanese publisher and developer Marvelous Interactive, has today unveiled the first details and images of Pilot Academy, the first flight simulator to be available for the Sony PlayStation Portable.

United Kingdom, Aug 31st, 2005 – Binary Sun announced that their latest bubble popping craze is complete and available from their website. Bubble Blitz, a challenging game where you must think ahead and plan your bubble popping to achieve the highest score.

Guildford - 31st August 2005, Lionhead Studios and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today The Movies Online, a community website where aspiring moviemakers can upload and share their motion pictures created with The Movies on the internet! Located at www.themoviesgame.com, the site will launch a virtual film festival for aspiring film-makers when the game ships […]

EBGames.com and GameStop.com now have listings for several different Xbox live Gold packages. If you’ll recall, every Xbox owner will get Xbox Live Silver out of gate, which will give access to the marketplace and downloadable content, but in order to join in on the frag fest of Halo 2, one needs to obtain an […]

In March, independent studio Spark Unlimited, developers of Call of Duty: Finest Hour, announced that it was splitting ways with long-time publisher Activision, and had signed a deal with Atari to develop games on the next-gen consoles. On the same day as the Spark announcement, Activision announced that their internal development studios would continue to […]

The nine multiplayer maps that were included in the Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack disk (released earlier this summer) are now available as free downloads for Halo 2 and Xbox Live owners. To download the maps, gamers will have to sign on to Xbox Live and use the content download option from the menu. […]

SAN FRANCISCO – August 29, 2005 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading video game publishers, announced that it has signed an exclusive deal with Red Mile EntertainmentTM to publish and distribute the Heroes of the PacificTM video game in North America for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® video game and entertainment […]

ATLANTA — August 30, 2005 – Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), a Time-Warner Company, announced the development of a behind-the-scenes documentary for Ubisoft’s widely anticipated video game title: Myst V: End of Ages. The documentary, which will be packaged with the Myst V: End of Ages Limited Edition disk as a bonus DVD, will […]

Redbus distribution is going to be one of the first distributors in Europe to push exclusive film footage as a direct WIFI PSP download, to market the release of Revolver, director Guy Ritchie’s latest feature film.

Staten Island, NY, Aug 30th 2005 – Matrix Games is proud to announce the signing of ApeZone’s Starships Unlimited III. Matrix Games published the previous game in the acclaimed space strategy game series under the title Starships Unlimited: Divided Galaxies, which was well received by gamers and the press alike.

Hey Everybody!
I’m sorry for the lack of any Monday updates, but I was a bit busy today. I guess life just catches up with us sometimes. I had a business proposal from a company which didn’t involve money, but a share of the company. While that sounds like a scam to get work for free, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., (August 26, 2005) – Leading video games developer and publisher Namco Hometek Inc. today that the official Web site for SOULCALIBUR III has gone live at http://soulcalibur3.namco.com. As the official destination for the game on the Internet, the site provides a detailed overview of the new features included in “SOULCALIBUR III,” in-depth […]

CALABASAS HILLS, Calif., Aug. 26: THQ Inc. (Nasdaq: THQI) and SEGA Europe today announced a co-publishing agreement for Gunstar Future Heroes for the Game Boy® Advance in all territories excluding North America and Asia. Scheduled to ship in Fall 2005, Gunstar Future Heroes is part of THQ and SEGA’s multi-title exclusive publishing agreement. Known as […]

Bellevue, Wa. (August 29, 2005) - ArenaNet, creators of the #1 selling competitive online roleplaying game, Guild Wars®, announces the release of the much-anticipated Guild Wars update: Sorrow’s Furnace. To be released on September 7, 2005, the update will be available free to all Guild Wars account holders and will stream to them live at […]

I found this interesting story on digg.com that explains how to access your iTunes library from your Sony PlayStation Portable using WiFi and a nifty little shareware application called “Dot-Tunes.” According to the article, Dot-Tunes creates a simple web page/web server by using selections from your iTunes library. After completing the simple setup procedure, you […]

Well it’s great to hear that not all video games are evil. At least not ones with names like ‘Play Attention’. It seems that schools are working with this game to help kids with ADD.

According to a recent report from Reuters, there are ’studies’ that have ’successfully’ linked gaming to adolescent aggression. So young men that grew up to be mobsters in the first half of the 20th century must have been gifted beyond the need for video game influence. Um ya…

Master Chief Explodes Onto Xbox in the All-New Halo Triple Pack
Bungie Studios’ Trio of Action Lands on Store Shelves on October 4, 2005
Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios announced today the “Halo” Triple Pack, a winning compilation that combines the excitement of “Halo: Combat Evolved,” “Halo 2″ and the “Halo 2′ Multiplayer Map Pack into […]

Jeffrey Anderson, CEO of Turbine entertainment, announced that Asheron’s Call 2 will no cease service on December 30, 2005. In a letter on the official website, he wrote:
“In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron’s Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the point where it no longer makes sense to […]

With just one week to go until the launch of the PSP on Thursday, 1st September, Codemasters today reveals new movies of its launch titles, Colin McRae Rally 2005 Plus and TOCA Race Driver 2, available online from www.codemasters.co.uk/psp.