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NCsoft Corporation, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced that it has reinforced its relationship with Epic Games, Inc. by licensing Unreal Engine 3 to develop two unannounced, top-tier massively multiplayer online games. NCsoft has achieved spectacular results working with the Unreal Engine over the years, shipping the highly successful [...]

Fresh off the success of The Orange Box, the 2007 game of the year award-winning collection of new games heralded as “the best value in gaming history,” Valve Corporation announces the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the Orange County-based development house behind one of 2008’s most anticipated games, Left 4 Dead.
Valve was founded in [...]

LucasArts and BioWare Corp. today announced that they have entered into an agreement to create an interactive entertainment product. The product, details of which will be unveiled at a later date, will be developed and published by BioWare and LucasArts, and will push the boundaries of the gaming market by utilizing the strengths of both [...]

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 [...]

Every so often individuals are called upon to rise above themselves and act in a selfless manner - to help, to protect, to defend those in need. We call these people, who rise up in the face of great adversity, heroes. One such individual’s story is about to be told worldwide. On Sept. 25, “Halo [...]

Deadline Games A/S has concluded a major deal with game publisher EIDOS to develop new video games. The three-year deal includes ten titles based on cartoon characters from the Hanna-Barbera studio licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The Hanna-Barbera studio is behind the well-known characters Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons and [...]

Epic Games today announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Warsaw, Poland-based game developer People Can Fly. People Can Fly (”PCF“) is best known for creating the hit PC game, Painkiller, but most recently has been collaborating with Epic on the PC version of Gears of War. In addition the two companies are [...]

Perpetual Entertainment announced today that BioWare’s Austin studio has licensed Perpetual’s online technology platform for an upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) title. The agreement gives BioWare the platform to deploy and support its online titles utilizing Perpetual’s industry-leading technology for online game operations, deployment, infrastructure development and community support.
“We evaluated numerous technology solutions to [...]

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Don Mattrick, a former president at Electronic Arts Inc., will lead the Interactive Entertainment Business, which includes overseeing the Xbox and Games for Windows businesses. Peter Moore, who currently serves as corporate vice president of IEB, has decided to move his family back to the Bay Area for personal reasons [...]

Chair Entertainment Group, an independent video game production company, today announced that it has signed an exclusive deal with Epic Games to license the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 for all its present and upcoming game development projects.
The deal covers all games developed for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC and the first game that will [...]

Foundation 9 Entertainment, the largest independent game developer in North America, announced today that it has spun off its Prince Edward Island, Canada based studio. The new entity will be known as Other Ocean Interactive; F9E will not retain any interest in the studio.
“We had great success launching our studio in PEI with tremendous and [...]

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nbsp;Gameproducer.net published sales stats of OceanDive, a unique combination of a 3D scuba diving screensaver and exploration game by SCS SOFTWARE. The game was reported to sell over 4,000 copies directly through its Web site totaling over $60,000 in direct sales.
“The territory for aquatic screensavers is very very crowded, full of ‘free’ offerings loaded with [...]

Wow, this is a pretty big statement! To state that any project or industry for that matter, has a chance of surpassing the mighty Google is a challenge if I ever heard one.

The game industry is going to continue to grow and expand, but according to Wedbush Morgan Securities, it’s not going to come from the next generation consoles … at least, for another 3 – 4 years.
In their exhaustive annual report, they see the gaming industry growing at a steady 10% per year through 2010, [...]

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.

Last week, the Mainichi Daily News quoted Sony officials as saying the price for the Playstation 3 would be at around 50,000 Yen ($465), but Japanese Web site Impress PC Watch reported that Sony has told its business partners that it will be under 40,000 Yen ($370). This has lead to rumors and speculation that [...]

16 Leading Game Developers and Publishers Represented
SAN FRANCISCO, California - May 24, 2005 - The Game Initiative, a leading producer of conferences and events for professionals in the computer and video game industry, today announced that professionals from 16 leading game developers and publishers will be represented at the “San Francisco Game Job Conference and [...]

GCAdvanced has some very sweet photos of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Of considerable note are the Legend of Zelda promotional shots, which are painted on to the steps leading up to the convention center entrance.

Are you ready to spend $500 on your next graphics card? Some information leaks indicate that nVidia is preparing to launch their next graphics chip – codenamed G70 – next month at Computex in Taipei; but, according to various stories, the chip will not begin mass distribution until Q3, 2005. This makes sense, because ATI [...]