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Recent War Sparks War Games


August 15, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

The war in Iraq may still be raging in one form or another, but that hasn’t stopped a video game company from developing a title using footage and scenarios from the latest Gulf conflict. Kuma Reality Games is reportedly developing Kuma: War, a game that will integrate video footage shot [...]

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Guide to That Big Break Now Available


August 14, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

Wanna get plugged into the game? Or, to be more precise, the game developer world? Just in time, Game Developer’s 2003 Game Career Guide is now available at most major newsstands and bookstores, and by download. The record-breaking growth the U.S. video game industry underwent in 2002 shows no signs [...]

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Gamer’s Day in City by the Bay


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San Francisco gamers who can’t wait to get their hands on the newest Sony product will get a pre-holiday shot this weekend. Sony Online Entertainment, a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, is hosting Media Gamers Day Event at the San Francisco’s Metreon this Friday, August 15 from 3:30 [...]

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Chess King Takes On Computer in Gotham


August 12, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

One of the greatest chess players ever, Gary Kasparov, is set to take on a computer rival in New York City for one week in November. X3D Technologies today announced the ultimate “X3D Man vs. Machine” contest as Kasparov goes head-to-mother board with X3D Fritz in virtual reality, with a [...]

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EA to AOL: Pay to Play, Please


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In a sign of how far AOL has fallen in the eyes of just about everybody, video game publishing giant Electronic Arts is asking AOL to pay them to keep EA games a part of AOL’s service. When AOL was ascendant, it had EA paying it for the privilege of [...]

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Final Fantasy Opens Windows For Gamers


August 11, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

Final Fantasy XI for Windows will begin shipping to North American users just in time for Halloween 2003. The first online title in the world-renowned series, Fantasy is a cross-platform, cross-continent massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The title allows players to connect to the same exact world regardless of whether [...]

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Lilo & Stitch Get Game On


August 8, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

When Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the VHS/DVD version of Stitch The Movie later this month, it’ll do so with a multi-million dollar marketing push leading up to the November 11 release of a DVD-based board game. In Lilo and Stitch’s Island of Adventures the traditional board game meets DVD [...]

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Gamers Game For Late-Summer Blighty Binge


August 7, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

On a hot late-summer day, nothing is quite as enervating (or pungent) as the Earl’s Court Road subway station in London. This August, however, there’ll be at least three days when the west London burg’s tube stop and surrounding area has a shot at some excitement. From Monday, August 25 [...]

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Sony Offers Freebees to Qwest DSL Users


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Qwest Communications Int’l Inc. and Sony Pictures Digital Networks have forged an agreement to provide some of today’s most popular Sony entertainment and gaming services to Qwest customers for free. SPDN and Qwest plan to provide customers with one-stop, broadband access to the content via a user-friendly Web portal. Customers [...]

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Game Giant to Become Big Playa In LA


August 6, 2003 by Chris Grove No Comments divider image

When the world’s biggest video game maker opens a state-of-the-art studio in Los Angeles that will be the modern day equivalent of what the brothers Warner did in Burbank in the 1930s, you know video games have achieved a central place in the show biz universe. Redwood City-based Electronic Arts [...]

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