Events

Vivendi Games Mobile, a division of Vivendi Games, today announced an online contest for mobile phone subscribers in Europe to support the recent launch of Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail. Fans of Leisure Suit Larry can post their ‘worst date ever’ stories on Larry’s blog for a chance to win a Wii system.
Mobile subscribers [...]

Left 4 Dead, the forthcoming survival co-op game from Turtle Rock Studios and Valve, will be shown at QuakeCon 2007 in Dallas, Texas. The event will be taking place from August 2nd through the 5th. Attendees will have the opportunity to play the game while members of the design team will be on hand to [...]

Publisher 2K Sports proudly announces that it will hold the first nighttime, outdoor motion capture event for NBA2K8 on Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The event is co-hosted by the Entertainers Basketball Classic (EBC) and will take place in New York City at Harlem’s famed Rucker Park. Featured athletes include NBA 2K8’s cover athlete Chris Paul, [...]

This summer, the work of game designers and media artists Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn will be on display in several locations around the world.
First of all, starting tomorrow, during the E3 Summit in Santa Monica, California, Tale of Tales’ oldest game project will be presented at the Indie Games Showcase. This is a unique [...]

Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher, today announced the company’s product line-up for the E3 Media and Business Summit, taking place July 11 - 13 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California. Games spanning multiple genres and platforms will be on-hand at the Atari booth (518 [...]

The front ramp has dropped and Matrix Games is storming into Origins 2007!
Matrix Games is thrilled to announce that they once again will be packing up their gear and redeploying at Origins Games Convention 2007 in Columbus, Ohio. Starting July 3rd through July 10th, Matrix Staff and a whole boatload of developers will set up [...]

Commodore Gaming invites you to get up close and personal with the all new, all powerful Commodore XX at Netstream, St Anne’s Court, Soho on June 27th.
Commodore is holding a LAN party and will be playing GRAW 2 multiplayer (and some old Commodore 64 games) on ten XXs — beer, a Commodore cocktail, and pizza [...]

For the first time ever, Canadian video game players can now join a professional video game league here at home to earn prize money and rise through the ranks to secure a professional contract. Canadian video game players can now sign up for online tournaments and be invited to participate in large-scale tournaments in [...]

Casual Connect Seattle 2007 in July is expected to draw more than 1200 attendees.
WHO: The Casual Games Association, the industry’s leading advocacy group that represents casual gaming executives, publishers, and developers from around the world.
WHAT: With increasing popularity, casual games are proliferating and securing a captive audience worldwide. By 2008, the casual games industry is [...]

Microsoft Corp. and Games for Change (G4C) have announced a joint commitment to explore new ways to bring together the world of digital gaming with the world of social change at the fourth annual Games for Change Festival at Parsons The New School for Design.
As part of the announcement, Microsoft outlined an all-new socially minded [...]

The Official UltraGames101 Game Expo 2007 will be held within Fan Expo Canada at The Metro Toronto Convention Centre August 24-26, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, and will combine the best elements of the Biggest video game trade show into a consumer event celebrating the video game industry’s present and future, the UltraGames101 (UG101) & Star [...]

This year’s GC (Games Convention) will be even more exciting than ever. From 22 to 26 August, the Leipzig Fair is for the first time offering an open-air summer festival, the “GC freestyle”. In the immediate vicinity of the Exhibition Centre, visitors can enjoy exclusive live concerts, a range of sporting activities and their own [...]

The United States’ top gamers will meet June 2-3 at the Samsung Experience in New York City for the World Cyber Games US Open video game tournament. The two-day competition kicks off the American leg of the WCG USA 2007 Championship Series for the world’s largest international video game festival, which culminates with the WCG [...]

The World Series of Video Games (WSVG), Presented by Intel, the world circuit of video game tournaments, announced today the winners of the season’s first event of the year at Wuhan, China. $50,000 in cash prizes were distributed to the event champions. The top four winners in the “World of Warcraft” competition received travel support [...]

VGXPO is an annual gaming destination - where gamers and industry insiders can come together to celebrate videogames. Now in its third year, attendees come to VGXPO to experience the newest games, encounter game industry legends, compete in tournaments, buy games and meet with friends.
“VGXPO’s mantra is that ‘no gamer should be left out’. We [...]

It’s hard to believe, but The Internet’s Favourite Videogame Radio Show One Life Left is one year old. The anniversary marks another milestone for the hour-long programme which has gone from strength to strength over the last 365 days, launching a number-one rated iTunes podcast and earning positive coverage from the broad spectrum (lol) of [...]

Many of today’s most popular computer games give the impression of being made for men, by men - but the vital and growing role played by women in researching and developing ground-breaking computer games will be explored at a major conference to be hosted by the University of Wales, Newport.
“We are delighted to be hosting [...]

IDG World Expo today announced that Nintendo of America has signed on as an anchor exhibitor for IDG World Expo’s newest event: Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), scheduled for October 18-21, 2007, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Nintendo leads an A-list of game companies signing on for a show that is rapidly [...]

Vancouver Film School (”VFS”), the largest private post-secondary entertainment arts institution in Canada, is pleased to announce the launch of the second Game Design Expo on January 19th and 20th, 2008, in Vancouver, B.C. The 2007 Game Design Expo sold out more than a week in advance and was an overwhelming success, confirming the game [...]

Our friends over at Games Press write:
Today, March 16th, is Red Nose Day, the day on the UK calendar when the nation unites to raise money for good causes in the name of comedy. So, eager not to be excluded, Games Press has been keeping an eye out for Red-Nose-related happenings in the world of [...]