Tag archives for london
Rebellion is working with cloud-based game streaming service OnLive to offer its Aliens vs. Predator. The service has built a lot of momentum ahead of its launch this summer, and although major publishers like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and 2K are on board, no titles have been revealed. But at the IBIS/LBS Videogames Investment Network event in London, Rebellion head Jason Kingsley broke the news -- which suggests that publisher Sega could be among the companies ...
[UK writer Lewis Denby mulls the nature of player characters in games, and the extent to which we really become these characters while we're immersed in their worlds.] To what extent do we embody the characters we play in games? That question was on my mind at the GameCamp in London event, at which 150 attendees spent the day discussing, debating and theorizing video games. With sessions run by a variety of games industry veterans ...
Crytek has announced a new licensor for its CryEngine 3 in the form of UTV subsidiary Ignition (Deadly Premonition publisher), which will use the engine for an action-adventure title being created at its London development studio. Publisher/developer Ignition, which is headquartered in the U.K. with offices in Los Angeles, Florida, London, Mumbai and Tokyo, will use the engine for a "flagship title" described as a "uniquely crafted combat action-adventure, set for release on the Xbox ...
New York-headquartered Def Jam Rapstar developer 4mm Games said Thursday that it would be opening a new European office, with help from industry stalwart Geoff Heath. The new studio is located in London's West End, and will initially focus on sales and marketing of the upcoming rap karaoke title Def Jam Rapstar, which Konami is publishing. "A London office is key to us being better able to serve our European customers, wherever they are," said ...
Sega Europe managing director Alan Pritchard will be moving to the U.S. to fill the role of VP of sales and marketing for Sega of America, according to a report on MCV. Pritchard's appointment comes on the heels of the announcement that Sega would be taking sweeping restructuring measures across its Western games business. The company said last month that it would lay off 36 workers in its San Francisco office and 37 in London, ...
David Gardner left his position as CEO of Atari last year, and more recently relinquished his seat on the company's board. But he's still involved in the games business, and now says he wants to help grow the industry through a venture capital firm. At the Nordic Game conference in Sweden this week, he said he has joined London Venture Partners and will start looking to potentially invest in forward-thinking game businesses. "My main objective ...
Sega is reorganizing its Western business, and in steps it says are aimed at keeping up with the market and improving efficiencies, the company is reducing headcount and increasing its digital focus. The company tells Gamasutra it will lay off 36 workers in its San Francisco office and 37 in London, for a total of 73 people, or about 10 percent of its Western publishing work force (not including studios). Generally, the San Francisco office ...
Paulina Bozek, who had been heading Atari's London-based online and casual gaming studio, has left the company following the resignation of Phil Harrison, alongside whom she joined Atari less than two years ago. The company confirmed her departure to UK trade site Develop today. Bozek had also worked with Harrison at Sony, where she was executive producer and director of the SingStar franchise of karaoke games. Her joining Atari came just after Harrison left his ...
Students from Imperial College London have modified an open source version of the 1972 arcade game Pong to allow physically disabled players to control in-game paddles using eye movements. Players wear special glasses that use infrared light and a webcam to track the motion of one eye. A laptop linked to the webcam processes eye movement and maps it to one of two player-controlled paddles in Pong. The student developers note that the technology could ...
RSS Feeds
