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Miyamoto Tops Gamemakers’ Hero Poll
Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of such classic games as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero, has topped a survey of game developers’ industry hero. The survey, commissioned by the Develop Conference in Brighton, England, polled 9,000 game developers across the globe. The results were compiled [...]
E3 News: Sony, Nintendo Move on Gear, Game Titles
Videogame giants Sony and Nintendo kicked off the first day of E3 by announcing a slew of new titles and more than a few twists on the hardware as they looked to gain favor with the gaming industry. Nintendo held its press conference early, announcing sequels and updates to popular [...]
E3 Returns With New Maturity, Same Old Excitement
E3′s return to the Los Angeles Convention Center this year is also a return to the show’s roots. Once known for its big splashy displays, scantily clad booth babes and eardrum-challenging audio output, the show returns from a two-year experiment as a scaled-back media and trade event a little more [...]
Autodesk Leads Middleware Talk at E3
The flashy side of E3 ‘ which officially will return next year June 15-17 ‘ gets most of the attention at the annual confab, but there’s plenty of serious business also taking place as companies talk to each other about how to make next year’s games even better than this [...]
Microsoft Motion Rig, Beatles Kick off E3
Getting back to the glitz and attention-grabbing glamour of past E3s, Microsoft kicked off the video game industry’s annual confab by reuniting the surviving Beatles and announcing a new motion-sensing camera. The sensor-based technology, called Project Natal, was demonstrated at the software giant’s press conference and has the ability to [...]
Space Ace Returns Call to Action on iPhone
Space Ace, the classic 1980s animated arcade game follow up the groundbreaking Dragon’s Lair, has come to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Created by legendary animator Don Bluth, the Space Ace game footage has been transferred directly from the high-definition masters. The game follows Ace, who must stop Commander Borf [...]
Schoemann, Habibipour Join Titmouse
Animation and game studio Titmouse has added two executives to its roster. Sam Schoemann joins the company as VP of sales and marketing. Schoemann brings more than two experience to the job, with his previous experience including stints with PBS, broadcast design and production company FUEL, Columbia TriStar International TV, [...]
Warner Offers $33M for Midway Assets
Warner Bros. has made a $33 million offer to buy the assets of videogame company Midway. The offer would land Warner the popular Midway game series Mortal Kombat and the company’s studios in Chicago and Seattle, reports the website MCV. The deal would live studios in England and San Diego [...]
Execs Picked to Head Bruckheimer Games Studio
Jerry Bruckheimer is one step closer to becoming as major a player in the the video game industry as he is on movie and TV screens. The producer and his parters at MTV Games have announced the hiring of Jim Veevaert as president of production and Jay Cohen as president [...]
First look: Star Trek D-A-C, Top Gun
Paramount Digital Entertainment is looking to prove there’s plenty of gaming life in old franchises with the release of Star Trek: D-A-C and Top Gun. The Trek game builds off the excitement for the upcoming movie. The game, developed by Naked Sky Entertainment in partnership with Bad Robot Interactive and [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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