The Electronic Sports League (ESL) and Activision Publishing, Inc. have partnered to reward the most skilled Call of Duty Black Ops II multiplayer teams on the Xbox 360® by giving them a chance to compete in the inaugural Call of Duty Championship, presented by Xbox 360®. Taking place April 5th-7th in star studded Hollywood, CA, Activision and Microsoft will bring together thirty-two teams from a...
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January 24th saw the start of the THQ bankruptcy auction which signalled the end of THQ’s 24 year history. Now that it’s over here’s which company bought which products and for how much and what they plan to do. SEGA At the auction Sega managed to outbid Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax Media for Relic along with their IP’s that include Company of Heroes and they have hinted that they may possibl...
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The Nintendo Wii U system and Google team up to create Wii Street U. This new application will allow players to use their Wii U GamePad controller to travel the world via Wii U. Did I mention it is free? The Wii U and Google combination of Street U will feature map data and 360° panoramic Street View images. Using the touch screen on the Wii U GamePad, players can type in an exact address and inst...
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Have you ever looked at your loved one and thought, ‘you’d look great dressed as a zombie bride’ ? Well my friends you are in luck. As a Valentine’s Day gift to its fans, Deep Silver today announced that it is extending the closing date for applications for the Dead Island Riptide zombie wedding to 14 March 2013. In return for becoming the official Dead Island Riptide zombie coup...
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Multiplay and SpecialEffect Announce Meetup. Multiplay, the Company behind the UK’s Biggest Gaming Festival: Insomnia, have announced SpecialEffect as their official Charity for 2013. SpecialEffect is charity which uses computer games and technology to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities. The partnership with Multiplay will allow SpecialEffect to have a presence at all o...
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Konami Digital Entertainment today announced three publicity events based in the Americas to support the launch of Metal Gear Solid Rising: Revengeance. Konami has invited fans of the game to come to these events for a chance to meet and receive autographs from two of the producers of the game; Mr Atsushi Inaba from Platinum Games and Mr Yuji Korekado from Kojima Productions. The first publicity e...
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Game Connection in collaboration with [a]list, have announced a partnership to offer a marketing summit and marketing awards program at Game Connection America. The Game Connection America 2013 will be held March 25-27, 2013 at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. The game connections conference will feature an all new track devoted to video game marketing under the [a]list summit banner....
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The best original computer games created from scratch during a 48 hour, non-stop design session will feature in a Games@Derby public exhibition at the University of Derby’s ‘Games Jam’ event. Around 60 students from all years of the University’s BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming (CGP) and BA (Hons) Computer Games Modelling and Animation (CGMA) degree courses will compete in t...
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BlackBerry and Unity Technologies are working together to bring new games to the BlackBerry 10 smartphone. I remember when BlackBerry used to be the latest and greatest phone for businessmen. Prepare thy selves BlackBerry owners. Having over 1.5 million developers working for Unity, BlackBerry is welcome to have them on their team. This alliance will be featured as an add on to BlackBerry devices ...
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The annual Global Game Jam created 86 games this year during its event held in the Netherlands over January 25-27. The 5th annual Global Game Jam this year showcased over 500 professional game developers, students, game enthusiasts, and journalists gathered to create top notch games for our entertainment. The gaming jamboree took place in the town of Breda at the International Game Architecture an...
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