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GameStop Won’t Sell Medal Of Honor At U.S. Military Bases

2
Sep

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GameStop Won’t Sell Medal Of Honor At U.S. Military Bases

Leading U.S. specialty video game retailer GameStop said Thursday that in agreement with military retailers, it will not be selling or advertising Electronic Arts' controversial Afghan War-based shooter Medal of Honor at stores on military bases, accor...

Tags: Afghan, afghan war, agreement, Bases, Electronic, electronic arts, Game, Gamers, GameStop, Kotaku, Leading, Medal, medal of honor, military bases, multiplayer, multiplayer modes, shooter, taliban, video game retailer

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Aurora Feint Announces iOS/Android Cross-Platform OpenFeint PlayTime

1
Sep

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Aurora Feint Announces iOS/Android Cross-Platform OpenFeint PlayTime

Following Apple's announcement that its social gaming network Game Center will be launching alongside revised iPod Touch hardware next week, Aurora Feint revealed "OpenFeint PlayTime," a new infrastructure allowing real-time multiplayer gameplay across...

Tags: Cross, cross platform, Feint, game center, Gaming, gaming network, hardware, multiplayer, Network, network game, playtime, social gaming, solution, time voice, Touch, unique solution, voice, voice chat

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Trials HD Developer Announces Its First WiiWare Title: Motoheroz

1
Sep

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Trials HD Developer Announces Its First WiiWare Title: Motoheroz

RedLynx, the Finland-based studio behind the hit Xblox Live Arcade game Trials HD, announced Motoheroz for Nintendo's WiiWare service. Motoheroz is a physics based, side-scrolling racer, in the same vein as the company's Trials series. The game feature...

Tags: arcade game, challenges, developer, Finland, game trials, hd, multiplayer, nintendo, online, physics, player, player adventure, range, RedLynx, series, single player, Studio, vein, WiiWare

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Casual Gaming Studio Gamer-Party Opens In UK

23
Aug

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Casual Gaming Studio Gamer-Party Opens In UK

Gamer-Party Limited, a casual games developer founded by two former employees of Atari, Electronic Arts, and Vodafone, has opened in the UK and launched a free-to-play portal. The new site, titled Gamer Party, is currently in its alpha phase and is sla...

Tags: alpha phase, Atari, beta, beta release, bomb, casual games, electronic arts, fourth quarter, games developer, multiplayer, online, Opens, strategy game, Studio, title, uk gamer, version, Vodafone

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Medal Of Honor Draws Controversy For Real-World War Content

16
Aug

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Medal Of Honor Draws Controversy For Real-World War Content

In the commercially-competitive first-person shooter genre, Electronic Arts has chosen its angle with a real-world present-day setting for upcoming Medal of Honor -- a decision that's now courting mainstream media controversy, as when players take the ...

QuakeCon: id Software Releases Source Code For Two Wolfenstein Titles

13
Aug

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QuakeCon: id Software Releases Source Code For Two Wolfenstein Titles

As part of this weekend's QuakeCon festivities, id Software has released GPL-licensed source code for two titles it previously co-developed: Splash Damage's Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Gray Matter's Return To Castle Wolfenstein. Currently, the RtC...

Study: 2010 MMORPG Market To Reach $8 Billion

10
Aug

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Study: 2010 MMORPG Market To Reach $8 Billion

The worldwide massively multiplayer online role-playing game market will grow to $8 billion in 2010 thanks mostly in part to Asian online game companies, according to a new study by Strategy Analytics Digital Media. Its $8 billion forecast is an approx...

Tags: Analytics, estimate, firm, forecast, Game, game companies, game market, Media, mmorpg, multiplayer, online, online game, percent, role playing game, Strategy, strategy analytics

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Trilogy Reveals Firefly Platform, PlaySpan Partnership

4
Aug

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Trilogy Reveals Firefly Platform, PlaySpan Partnership

Trilogy Studios announced its Firefly platform, an MMO technology framework for developing social and casual multiplayer online games, featuring support for Playspan's digital goods monetization solutions. The new platform is designed to integrated the...

Tags: co-op, firefly, footprint, Game, Gameplay, gameplay elements, instances, MMO, monetization, multiplayer, multiplayer online games, partnership, PlaySpan, Studios, support, Technology, technology framework, trilogy, web browser

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Runic Announces Torchlight II

4
Aug

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On the heels of acclaim for its successful Diablo-like PC action RPG Torchlight from 2009, developer Runic Games reveals it's creating a sequel, a move it calls " the logical next step for us given the phenomenal enthusiasm of gamers petitioning us for...

Tags: Acclaim, action rpg, Announces, character classes, Cooperative, cooperative multiplayer, Diablo, Diablo-like, elements, enemies, enthusiasm, Game, games, multiplayer, overworld, Runic, sequel, Torchlight

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Microsoft Wins Xbox Patent Battle

3
Aug

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Microsoft last week won a court case originating in 2004 that had inventors suing the Xbox maker for allegedly infringing on online multiplayer gaming-related patents, according to court documents obtained by Gamasutra. In 2004, Peter A. Hochstein, Jef...