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GDC 2010 registration opens
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Registration for next year's GDC in San Francisco has opened, with a host of new pass options and an expanded summit line-up.
The event shake-up includes reduced conference pass prices, with optional lunch deals, with a total of eight genre focuses, including: AI, Game Localisation, Mobile, Independent Games, Education, iPhone Games, Serious Games and Social/Online Games.
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Posted by Luke on Sunday, November 08 @ 23:00:00 CST (317 reads)
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EA's Hilleman to keynote Unite Conference
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Electronic Arts' chief creative director Richard Hilleman is to keynote the Unite Conference, taking place October 27-30 in San Francisco.
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Posted by Luke on Friday, October 16 @ 00:00:00 CDT (361 reads)
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Polish tech firm to acquire CD Project
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The Witcher developer CD Project is to be acquired by Polish PC company Optimus.
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Posted by Luke on Monday, October 12 @ 00:00:00 CDT (211 reads)
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Foundation 9 scales back development capacity
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Foundation 9 Entertainment has carried out cutbacks in response to the slowing market, closing its Fizz Factor studio and merging Amaze and Griptonite.
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Posted by Luke on Monday, August 17 @ 00:00:00 CDT (236 reads)
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DreamWorks to negotiate new videogame licensing deal
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DreamWorks is beginning negotiations for a new videogame licensing deal to take effect from 2011, CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has revealed during a conference call with analysts held after the company's Q2 earnings briefing.
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Posted by Luke on Friday, August 07 @ 00:00:00 CDT (226 reads)
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GCA to host first ever DICE Summit Asia
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This year's GCA Games Convention Asia is to host the first ever DICE Summit Asia. The summit will take place on the first day on the GCA conference and feature addresses from seven top international developers; confirmed so far are Masaya Matsuura, president of NanaOn-Sha Co in Japan, and Chris Taylor, founder and director of Gas Powered Games.
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Posted by Luke on Monday, August 03 @ 00:00:00 CDT (165 reads)
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ELSPA calls on UK govt to encourage uptake of science degrees
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The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association has called on the UK government to encourage young people to specialise in science and maths degrees.
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Posted by Luke on Thursday, July 23 @ 00:00:00 CDT (123 reads)
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Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli to keynote GDC Europe
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Cevat Yerli, CEO and president of Crytek, will deliver a keynote at this year's Game Developers Conference Europe entitled 'The Future of Gaming Graphics'.
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Posted by Luke on Tuesday, July 21 @ 00:00:00 CDT (119 reads)
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New Ubisoft Toronto studio expected to create 800 jobs
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Ubisoft is set to open a new development studio in Toronto which is expected to result in the creation of 800 jobs.
The studio has been invested in by the government of Ontario, which will put CAD 263 million into the project over a ten year time frame - that's on top of the half a billion CAD Ubisoft expects to invest. Operations within the studio, which will work on triple-A Ubisoft titles, are expected to begin in late 2009.
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Posted by Luke on Friday, July 17 @ 00:00:00 CDT (101 reads)
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Namco Bandai secures Dragon Ball rights for 5 years
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Publisher Namco Bandai has secured the US publishing rights for the Dragon Ball Z franchise for five years.
The agreement is for all major consoles and handheld systems, beginning in January 2010, but the publisher has also secured rights to release three Dragon Ball Z games by the end of this year.
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Posted by Luke on Tuesday, July 14 @ 00:00:00 CDT (103 reads)
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China tightens online game laws and prohibits foreign investment
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China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has issued a notice that states online games should be pre-approved and attain an Internet Publishing Licence before they can be released.
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Posted by Luke on Wednesday, October 21 @ 00:00:00 CDT (363 reads)
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Bungie vets form Moonshot Games
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Three former Bungie developers have started up their own development studio, Moonshot Games.
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Posted by Luke on Thursday, October 15 @ 00:00:00 CDT (338 reads)
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20th Century Fox appoints VP of videogame production
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Twentieth Century Fox has appointed Andre Emerson as it new vice president of videogame production.
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Posted by Luke on Thursday, October 08 @ 00:00:00 CDT (210 reads)
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China bans online mafia games
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China's Ministry of Culture has banned websites from offering online games featuring mafia-like gangs, threatening "severe punishment" to violators.
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Posted by Luke on Monday, August 10 @ 00:00:00 CDT (225 reads)
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Develop conference moves to Liverpool for first time
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The organisers of the Develop conference are to hold an additional one-day only event in Liverpool this year. The announcement the conference will heading up north for the first time follows the success of its fourth outing earlier this month in Brighton, where over a thousand industry professionals gathered for three days of talks and networking opportunities.
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Posted by Luke on Tuesday, August 04 @ 00:00:00 CDT (165 reads)
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Robot Entertainment selects Trinigy's Vision Engine for new IP
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Robot Entertainment, the newly-formed studio made up of former Ensemble employees, has entered into a licensing agreement with Trinigy that will enable the studio use of the Vision Engine on a new unannounced IP it's working on.
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Posted by Luke on Thursday, July 30 @ 19:14:19 CDT (162 reads)
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite breaks retail records
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite has become the first PSP game to ship over 3.5 million units, according to Capcom.
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Posted by Luke on Tuesday, July 21 @ 00:00:00 CDT (108 reads)
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Sony to support game development in Taiwan
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Sony Computer Entertainment is planning a wealth of development initiatives in Taiwan that it hopes will help to establish the PlayStation 3 in the country and result in games being created specifically for mainland China
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Posted by Luke on Monday, July 20 @ 00:00:00 CDT (101 reads)
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World of Warcraft Twitter client launches
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Modders have created a fully functioning in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft that allows players to send and receive Tweets during play.
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Posted by Luke on Thursday, July 16 @ 00:00:00 CDT (90 reads)
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New Pirate Bay will pay users for hosting
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The Pirate Bay intends to pay users for letting their computers host content as part of a worldwide peer-to-peer network.
That's the plan of Global Gaming Factory, the company which intends to acquire the notorious website and legitimise its business.
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Posted by Luke on Monday, July 13 @ 00:00:00 CDT (107 reads)
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