Epic Games Inc. held a press conference and reception Thursday in Tokyo to celebrate the opening of Epic Games Japan, and Gamasutra was on hand for all the details. "We have been playing Japanese games all our lives, so we are very pleased to announce the opening of Epic Games Japan," said Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney in his opening address, where he explained that the purpose of the new subsidiary is to provide local ...
The Walt Disney Pictures-distributed movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, opening on May 28th, is perhaps the most concerted effort toward getting a video game property onto the big screen. With backing by Jerry Bruckheimer, a proper director (Mike Newell, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Donnie Brasco), and input from Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this has the potential to be the slickest video game property on the big ...
Tiger Style co-founder Randy Smith (Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor) delivered the keynote of the Indie Games Summit, encouraging indie developers to embrace a philosophy of immediacy and depth to hasten their popular ascendancy. Opening with a self-deprecating "I do have a worry that this presentation will not live up to expectations or achieve what it could," Smith outlined that his background may not be "indie" enough for the crowd -- having worked for ...
As GDC begins, German browser games portal Bigpoint has announced -- alongside the opening of a U.S. office -- that it is planning to debut games that allow head-to-head PC versus iPhone play using Unity, and is developing an MMO based on NBC Universal's Battlestar Galactica property. The company currently employs 340 people in Hamburg, Germany and has 110 million registered users for its gaming services -- for which is U.S. is its number three ...
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