2007

This week, Nintendo adds another delicious category to its smorgasbord of classic titles. NEOGEO games will now be appearing in the Wii Shop Channel for download. NEOGEO becomes the sixth platform represented in the Wii Shop Channel, and it adds additional depth and breadth to the best selection of classic games available.
Hard-core gamers will especially [...]

Meridian4 today announced that the updated and improved North American version of IDEA Games’ upcoming first-person shooter, Alpha Prime, has gone gold and has been sent to manufacturers. Alpha Prime will be available at retailers across North America and at leading digital distribution outlets like TotalGaming.net, Steam and Direct2Drive on November 6 for a suggested price [...]

Sony Online Entertainment LLC’s (SOE) Platform Publishing label and Flying Lab Software LLC (FLS) announced today Pirates of the Burning Sea, is scheduled to launch worldwide on January 22, 2008. The hotly anticipated MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game, featuring high seas action and swashbuckling adventure in a bold world of pirates and plunder, is being [...]

iZ3D, LLC, a designer, developer, and marketer of advanced 3D visualization systems, announced today its 22-inch widescreen 3D monitors will be used in all gaming stations in the E-SPORTS Gaming Pavilion at LANFest2K7. Hosted by the popular ecommerce store NewEgg.com, LANFest2K7 will be held at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, Calif. on October 5-7, 2007. [...]

Casual games developer and publisher eGames, Inc. announced today that its new city building puzzle game, Puzzle City will launch online on Yahoo! Games on October 8 for an exclusive two week period, following the recent success of eGames’ internally developed fast-food themed game Burger Island.
"Yahoo! Games represents the ideal launching pad for Puzzle City," [...]

From the makers of the Immortals USA beta:
Since the Immortals USA open beta started sign ups, over 30,000 new accounts have been created to take part. During this time, we have seen a few bumps along the way and have improved server stability, various bug fixes and also a way to detect those who were [...]

X-OOM Media Centre for Wii will turn your Nintendo Wii into your own multimedia centre allowing you to watch movies, listen to music and view digital photos by streaming files directly from your PC onto the Wii using Wi-Fi.
X-OOM Software, a leading publisher of digital media software for mobile devices, will be releasing X-OOM Media [...]

Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and [...]

2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., announced today new features for College Hoops 2K8, the best rated college basketball game for five straight years and best selling college basketball video game series this past season.
A brand new feature for College Hoops 2K8 is the All-American Training Challenge, delivering an exciting [...]

NCSoft Europe proudly brings you the the eleventh free expansion to the City of Heroes universe, introducing a whole new level of depth, gameplay and excitement to the franchise.
Issue 11: A Stitch in Time reveals that all that is and was is not as it should be! The mysterious Ouroboros organization, a group of beings [...]

Goozex, Inc., a leading online video game trading site, today announced a Facebook member sweepstakes for the month of October. Heralding the recent launch of the company’s Video Game Community Facebook application, Goozex is giving away limited edition Halo 3 Xbox 360 Elite consoles to four lucky Facebook members.
The promotion is running on the 42 [...]

Escape from Paradise City, the combination RTS and RPG from cdv Software Entertainment USA and Sirius Games, has gone gold today. In Escape from Paradise City, which is set to ship to North American retailers on October 24, gamers will play as three unique characters — an ex-con, a streetwise hand-to-hand expert, and a corrupt [...]

This is a special week on the Wii Shop Channel. Frankly, it’s a gamer’s dream come true: Nintendo is launching the new Import genre with the release of two games that previously have never been available in the Western Hemisphere on their original platforms. The first will be hugely popular with Mario fans, who will [...]

Online competition winner will see their design become an in-game character for the supernatural PlayStation 3 (PS3) thriller

We’re looking for a new inhabitant for the Netherworld - will you be its creator?

Legendary Executive Producer Okamoto-San to sit on Game Republic judging panel

Enter your design here before 22nd October to enter

If you’re an imaginative gamer with [...]

Tri Synergy, Inc. and ZeroG Games are proud to announce that they have reached an agreement for Tri Synergy to publish Democracy the popular political strategy game, developed by Positech. Now gamers can feel what it’s like to sit in the chair of a head of state and run a major country the way they [...]

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that the eagerly awaited “Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties,” the second expansion pack for “Age of Empires III,” has gone gold and will hit retailers throughout North America on Oct. 23rd.
From renowned real-time strategy developers Big Huge Games and Ensemble Studios, “Age of Empires III: The [...]

Prepare to confront evil and then blast its face off as Codemasters announces the release of the Clive Barker’s Jericho playable demo.
The demo is now available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the Games for Windows demo available from here In Europe and PAL territories, [...]

Today, Cellufun Inc., one of the world’s largest mobile entertainment communities launched WAP Chess, a free, multiplayer chess game supporting real-time play on more than 600 handsets, including Apple’s iPhone.
Cellufun’s mobile Chess caters to both amateur and expert game players alike. Amateurs will find numerous human opponents, matched to their skill level by Cellufun’s human [...]

Tri Synergy, Inc. is thrilled to announce that cat-lovers and kitten-cuddlers everywhere will soon be able to play great puzzles and fun arcade games with I LOVE Kittens!
In I LOVE Kittens!, all cat lovers can help precious kittens who need love and affection to be playful and happy. Just like a good mother cat, you [...]

Activision, Inc. today announced that it has acquired U.K.-based video game developer Bizarre Creations, one of the world’s premier video game developers and a leader in the racing category, a $1.4 billion market that is the fourth most popular video game genre and represents more than 10% of the total video game market worldwide.
This acquisition [...]