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Will Wright Exits EA for Stupid Fun Club
Will Wright, creator of such blockbuster games as SimCity, The Sims and Spore, is leaving Electronic Arts to run his new intellectual property think tank Stupid Fun Club. That doesn’t mean he’s leaving EA behind entirely. The videogame giant is making an equity investment in the new venture, taking a [...]
Ubisoft Takes Chance on Meatballs Game
Ubisoft is ready to serve up Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs to gamers, readying video games based on the upcoming 3-D animated feature for both handheld and home-based gaming consoles. The film, due for release Sept. 18 from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, is the basis for the [...]
It’s a Cracking New Game, Gromit!
Telltale Games delivers an awesome new series of games for two beloved Aardman characters. It’s a well-known fact that if you’re a game designer dealing with characters as universally revered as Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit, you definitely have your work cut out for you. Fortunately, the team at San [...]
Taking Games Seriously at GDC
The 2009 Game Developers Conference started Monday with a focus on specialty videogames, such as mobile games, casual games and serious games (games used primarily for non-entertainment uses). Several things emerged quickly: a) all three of these categories are growing; b) the market is shifting, with new types of consumer [...]
Wallace & Gromit Game Downloads Today
‘Fright of the Bumblebees,’ the first of four games in the Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures series, is now available for download from Telltale Games. To celebrate, maker Telltale Games is offering a limited-time discount through March 29 that lets gamers buy all four titles in the series for $29.95, [...]
AvatarLabs Gets MvA’s B.O.B. In Your iPhone
Online marketing agency AvatarLabs has announced the release of a Monsters vs. Aliens application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application, based on the DreamWorks Animation movie due in the theaters March 27, comes in a free ‘lite’ version and a regular version. The lite version lets viewers learn more [...]
U.K. Ad Board Rejects Game Makers’ Complaint
The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected a request from U.K. video game makers to take action against a government ad campaign promoting healthy lifestyles that the game makers say unfairly links gaming with early death, MCV reports. The ads, put together for the Change4Life campaign backed by the British Heart [...]
Titmouse Games Dives into Seven Haunted Seas
Hollywood-based toon shop Titmouse (adult swim’s Metalocalpyse) has officially launched its original game development studio venture, Titmouse Games. This new gaming arm is overseen by gaming veteran Aaron Habibipour who joins the team as creative director. Habibpour has worked on titles such as Guitar Hero, Darkwatch and Gun, and has [...]
Big Red Button, Emergent Forge Partnership
Big Red Button Entertainment has teamed up with Emergent Game Technologies for a strategic partnership intended to allow Big Red Button greater creative freedom in creating games based on Emergent’s technology resources. Under the deal Big Red Button will become a premier licensee of the Gamebryo LightSpeed game development system [...]
New Naruto Game Set for DS
The fourth edition of the popular video game Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council is being developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS. Based on the popular VIZ animated series, the game series has sold more than 800,000 copies in North America. The forthcoming game will be the first game released for the [...]
BBC Says Good-Bye to...
The BBC Trust has confirmed that children’s programs will no longer be shown...
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