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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 [...]
Change4Life Touts Active Video Games
A U.K. healthy lifestyles campaign that drew fire from the video game industry for ads painting games as unhealthy is set to unveil new ads touting the virtues of video games that promote physical activity. The ads from Change4Life will urge parents to ensure their kids get 60 ‘active’ minutes [...]
Rock Band Clicks with Lego
Building a career as a rocker has never been easier. Lego has signed on with MTV Games and Harmonix for Lego Rock Band, a new take on the popular video game that will debut for the Christmas season on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Nintendo DS, Variety reports. Rock [...]
First Look: Ninja Council 4 and Pangya Fantasy Golf
Video game news is heating up as E3 approaches, giving Animation Magazine Online the chance to preview Tomy’s upcoming releases Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council 4 for the Nintendo DS and Pangya Fantasy Golf for the PSP. Up first is Ninja Council 4, the first entry in the series to take [...]
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 [...]
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
First Glimpse at...
Toon fans will no longer have to speculate about the final look of...
