Mr. Schilling you may have the Boston sports fan’s heart, including mine, but the less sports interested video gaming fans you do not. Go ahead, move your studio to RI under some hostage state takeover deal see if we care. Seems MA didn’t take kindly to loosing to a state that hosts our AHL team. [...]
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EA Not That Evil, Sign Three Indie Deals
November 18th, 2010
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Publisher Electronic Arts has recently inked deals with three indie developers and plan distribute their titles through XBLA, PSN and PC. This comes off a fifteen consecutive quarter loss and a shift away from retail based sales. The hope is that going digital will obviously cut costs and spark growth in an up-and-coming distribution medium. [...]
Viacom, Hello Goodbye to Harmonix
November 18th, 2010
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Viacom: ‘hey this will be great! We own some brand called MTV, apparently it involves music – we also have a ton of money to throw at this. No, really we have a ton of money. We are literally everywhere. It’s awesome. This makes sooo much sense since you make a really popular music based [...]
Modern Warfare 2 Kicking Record Book Ass and Taking No Names…At All
November 18th, 2009
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So I think people expected MW2 to kick ass in sales but this is ridiculous. Activision/Blizzard Inc. (both should be thanking God for this) announced that MW2 is shattering all sorts of records – boasting a new worldwide estimated five-day sell-through record of aprox. $550 million. Are you titty-f**kin (TFin’) me? This is taking them [...]
Rock Band Bar Nights; Get Drunk Look Even More Like An Ass
September 1st, 2009
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Just when you thought karaoke couldn’t get any worse – enter Rock Band Bar Nights. Now going to the bar will be completely unbearable as you listen to drunken idiots screw up your favorite songs in even more annoying fashion through Rock Band. Not sure if you’ve actually heard drunk people play Rock Band but [...]
Ubisoft To Talk Games and Film at Comic Con Today
July 23rd, 2009
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Today around 1:45pm at Comic Con in San Diego (refrain from Ron Burgundy joke, refrain) Ubisoft is going to lead up a panel discussion entitled “Assassin’s Creed II: Video Games and Hollywood Converge.” While this doesn’t mean too much to us or most of you, mostly because we’re not in San Diego and don’t have [...]
EA and Dark Horse Comics Team Up For Mass Effect Comic Series
July 22nd, 2009
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And the trend continues…this time with Bioware, a studio of EA, and Dark Horse Comics announcing a new comic book series based on the hit game Mass Effect. The sci-fi comic will act as a prequel that will bridge together Mass Effect and the mysterious beginning of Mass Effect 2. The comic entitled Mass Effect: [...]
EA and DC Team Up For Dante’s Inferno Comic
July 20th, 2009
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Visceral Games, a step-child of EA Inc, has announced that they will be collaborating with DC Comics to create a Dante’s Inferno comic book mini-series. The six comic min-series will be available in Decemeber of ’09 but will make its debut at Comic Con this week. Also, at the Comic Con event Visceral Games is [...]
Hey Advertisers – It’s All About the Indie Games
July 14th, 2009
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While game development costs for triple-A titles, like Halo and GTA, start reaching into the budgets of major films (GTA IV estimated at $100 mil – about the same for Starship Troopers, Terminator 2, Minority Report among others) so does their need advertising dollars. We’ve commented before on in-game advertising and everyone has an opinion [...]
Ubisoft Taking Over Canada
July 7th, 2009
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Ubisoft is setting up a stronghold in Canada with it’s announcement of opening a full development studio in Toronto. This puts them in a great position for world domination – because no one expects Canada. With the opening of this office Ubisoft will be in Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec and Toronto. With extending its presence in [...]
