2005

Matrix Games in association with Worlds Apart Productions is proud to announce Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga, a stand-alone new release of the award-winning Star Chamber, is now available from the Matrix Games Online Store. Star Chamber is a highly acclaimed hybrid board and trading card strategy game set in a sci-fi themed universe. [...]

CDV Software Entertainment USA has secured the exclusive rights to distribute and promote GSC World Publishing’s upcoming fantasy title, Heroes of Annihilated Empires. Heroes is the first title in a trilogy of games, and is set to ship in 2006. The games will offer an extraordinary blend of RTS and RPG gameplay, challenging gamers to [...]

Caravel Games announce that a special edition of Deadly Rooms of Death, or “DROD” for short, is now available for download and purchase from their website. DROD: King Dugan’s Dungeon is a remastered version of the original freeware game that started it all. With exciting new graphics, levels, and audio, the famed DROD [...]

Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) the World’s leading interactive entertainment software company, announced today that EA SPORTS Rugby 06, from the makers of the hit franchises FIFA and NHL, is currently under development at EA Canada and HB Studios for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Xbox videogame system from Microsoft and PC.

SEGA Corporation today announced a worldwide partnership with International Sports Multimedia (ISM), exclusive licensee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to become the publisher of the Official Video Game of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. This agreement will allow SEGA to publish a range of interactive entertainment software titles based on the Beijing 2008 Olympic [...]

“Henshin-is-on-the-go-go” as Capcom today announced that it’s favorite celluloid hero will make its debut on the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system in Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble. Bringing intense versus-style action, new features and enhancements to the PSP system, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble has Joe and his friends battling it out with their VFX powers [...]

Sumthing Else Music Works, Inc., through its licensing relationship with Microsoft Game Studios, is pleased to announce their latest release: Age of Empires III Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack album from the third episode of the king of real-time strategy games, developed by Ensemble Studios and Microsoft Games Studios, is now available at US retail outlets [...]

Rev-up those racing cart engines Nintendo DS owners, as Mario Kart DS has arrived on your Nintendo hand-held. The latest Mario racer is also the first Nintendo product with online support. The big question is how does the game fare in comparison to other entries in the series? Short answer: very good!

For the first time ever, all your favourite Nintendo game tunes will be ringing in your ear this Christmas as Nintendo launches its very own range of unique ring tones and wallpapers. Available through Nintendo’s VIP 24:7 members club, ringtones can be downloaded by redeeming ’stars’ from 05 December 2005.

Video game publisher RedOctane has hooked up with Vans to announce the “25 Days of Guitar Hero Xmas” Giveaway Contest! Enter for a chance to win the Grand Prize by visiting vans.com.

The Get-Well Gamers Foundation, a California-based public charity dedicated to bringing electronic entertainment to children in healthcare facilities, today announced a major donation from Microsoft that will enable it to pursue its mission of giving this holiday season.

Ubisoft, Gearbox Software, and The History Channel, announced that a Brothers In Arms–inspired documentary on World War II will premiere on The History Channel. Known for its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers In Arms franchise established itself as a benchmark for military action games quickly after its initial release [...]

Matrix Games and Playnet are very proud to announce a partnership to bring the new World War II Online: Battleground Europe to North America for the first time via the Matrix Games digital download system. Take control of a soldier fighting in World War II in a persistent massive multiplayer world of first-person combat [...]

The Lava Kingdom is in peril and it will take a brave dolphin named Finlay to restore balance to the ocean. Finlay’s Fathoms is now in open beta testing in the final stages of development. This single player action/RPG will show the players what is in store and feedback on the product from [...]

Alawar Entertainment, a leading publisher of downloadable games for the PC, has announced the release of Time Breaker. The revolutionary new Breakout offering features 3D animated levels in which a giant sea serpent lashes at the screen, a majestic Pharaoh dances like an Egyptian and a helicopter spins and whirls in three-dimensional space. The detail [...]

Makslane Rodrigues has released Game Editor v. 1.3.3, a powerful Windows game creation application that lets you design and create exciting, interactive games for the Windows, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, and Linux markets. You can share your games with family and friends, or sell them commercially, without paying royalty fees to the Game Editor [...]

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that cumulative worldwide shipment of PlayStation 2 had reached 100 million units as of November 29th, 2005, breaking the record as the fastest computer entertainment platform to reach this remarkable figure. This achievement comes within 5 years and 9 months since its launch in Japan in March 2000, [...]

The impetus for this piece of legislation appears as fundamentally misguided as it is fatally-flawed. The IEMA retailers committed voluntarily to a self-regulatory enforcement system substantially similar to the motion picture business, which the very same legislators hold up as the “Gold Standard.” While our success rates may not be as consistently high as movie [...]

Matrix Games in association with Worlds Apart Productions has released the final information on what will be contained in The Harbinger Saga expansion of Star Chamber. Star Chamber is a highly acclaimed strategic trading card game set in a sci-fi themed universe. Awarded the Computer Gaming World Editor’s Choice (4.5 of 5 Stars) [...]

2K Sports, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that College Hoops 2K6 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system is now available in stores across North America. College Hoops 2K6, also available for the Xbox video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, delivers the most exciting new features, fast-paced [...]