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New BrandBoost Advertising Platform for Social Games
One of the world’s largest social games developers to tap into ad-supported model for virtual goods and items WildTangent, one of the world’s largest and fastest growing game services, today announced that leading social game developer Playdom, Inc. is integrating WildTangent’s newly launched BrandBoost™ advertising platform into its popular Facebook game, Tiki Farm. With BrandBoost, Playdom can [...]
Continue reading...Uncharted 2 Wins Game of the Year @ 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
13. March 2010
Creative Word-Wielding Adventure video Game, Scribblenauts, Wins for Best Handheld Game and Innovation Award; Other Big Winners Include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Farmville, Flower and Torchlight Naughty Dog’s critically-acclaimed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the big winner at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, presented at a ceremony this evening at UBM TechWeb Game Network’s 2010 [...]
Continue reading...Autodesk Unveils 2011 Lineup
10. March 2010
On the eve of GDC in San Francisco, Autodesk Media & Entertainment announced its latest digital software for 3D animation in a virtual press conference hosted by Maurice Patel, entertainment industry manager, and Rob Hoffmann, senior product marketing manager. The lineup includes: Maya 2011, which boasts a new user interface based on Nokia Qt, a completely redesigned [...]
Continue reading...Silver Strike LIVE Hits the Streets
2. March 2010
Game Update Showcases Do-It-Yourself Avatars and (Virtual) Bowling for (Real) Dollars Before you head to your favorite watering hole to play Silver Strike LIVE, know this: it may be virtual bowling, but the cash prizes are real. You’re not actually “bowling,” but your custom-made, custom-dressed avatar—displayed in glorious HD video—is. You’re standing in your neighborhood bar, finessing [...]
Continue reading...Cartoon Movie 2010 Tributes Noms Announced
2. March 2010
Directors and companies from France, Belgium, Sweden, Spain and Poland have been nominated as finalists for Cartoon Movie 2010 Tributes, the awards for outstanding contribution to the development of European animation over the last year. The winners will be selected by the animation professionals attending Cartoon Movie 2010, the co-production forum for European animated feature films, [...]
Continue reading...Forum on the Future of Social and Mobile Gaming at GDC 2010
24. February 2010
Senior executives from top social and mobile gaming companies share their visions of the future Offerpal Media, the leader in virtual world currency payment alternatives, today announced it will be hosting a forum during the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco, CA. The half-day forum, titled “Social and Mobile Gaming: What’s Next?,” brings together many [...]
Continue reading...University Study Finds Infants Can Learn From Brainy Baby DVDs
20. February 2010
The Brainy Baby Company today announced the results of a study conducted at the University of Texas, Austin, which found that infants/toddlers under the age of two can learn from DVDs designed to teach young children shapes. The peer reviewed study was conducted using Brainy Baby’s® Shapes & Colors animation-powered DVD and will be published [...]
Continue reading...Emmy Award-Winner Eric McCormack Stars in the Highly Anticipated Lifetime Original Movie ‘Who is Clark Rockefeller?’
18. February 2010
Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee SHERRY STRINGFIELD and REGINA TAYLOR Co-Star in the Film Premiering March 13 Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), Sherry Stringfield (ER) and Regina Taylor (The Unit) headline the eagerly-anticipated Lifetime Original Movie, Who is Clark Rockefeller?, an astonishing account of a man’s lifelong con game. Based on a true shocking story [...]
Continue reading...Digital-Tutors Launches Latest Round of Training for Cinema 4D, Nuke & Softimage
9. February 2010
Digital-Tutors, a leader in solution-based training for media and entertainment software, today continues to add to their award-winning online learning library with three highly-requested titles that aid in the creation of movies, video games and 3D animation design including ‘Modeling for Product Visualization in Cinema 4D,’ ‘Introduction to 3D in Nuke’ and ‘mental ray Rendering [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Hero’s February Downloadable Content Lineup Packs a Powerful Punch With Fresh Music From Top Bands
29. January 2010
Heavy Metal Powerhouse Black Sabbath Debuts Master Tracks as Compatible Guitar Hero(R) 5 and Band Hero Downloadable Songs Guitar Hero Music Library Further Expands with Hit Songs and New Music from 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin and Third Eye Blind Guitar Hero® cranks up the heat in February with a strong lineup of weekly downloadable songs [...]
Continue reading...Record-Breaking Collection of Pokemon Memorabilia Appears in Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition
27. January 2010
12,000-PIECE COLLECTION FILLS COLLECTOR’S FAMILY’S ENTIRE HOUSE! Twenty one year-old Lisa Courtney from Hertfordshire, England is celebrating this week after being officially recognised as the individual with the largest Pokemon animation memorabilia collection in the world, having accumulated 12,113 different items over 13 years. Her incredible record-breaking collection, which is still growing in size, has [...]
Continue reading...Built-in Video Capture to Ship with Just Cause 2
25. January 2010
PlayStation players to publish their greatest achievements to YouTube Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced that the video game Just Cause® 2 for the PlayStation® 3 will ship with a built-in video capture feature, allowing players to record clips of their greatest in-game exploits and upload directly to YouTube®. With some [...]
Continue reading...Snatch Mr. Fox on DVD/Blu-ray in March
25. January 2010
Academy Award-winning Hollywood heavyweights George Clooney (*Up In The Air*) and Meryl Streep (*It’s Complicated*) lend their voices to the hilarious, heartwarming and dazzling stop-motion animation Adventure from visionary director Wes Anderson (*The Royal Tenebaums*) *Fantastic Mr. Fox*, arriving as a Blu-ray Disc/DVD Combo Pack and on DVD March 23 from Twentieth Century Fox Home [...]
Continue reading...Machine Dispenses Happiness for Unsuspecting College Students in Viral Video Hit
16. January 2010
Definition 6, an integrated interactive agency, today announced the launch of the Coca-Cola “Happiness Machine” 3D animation video. Coca-Cola selected Definition 6 to develop a video for viral distribution that would tie into its recently launched ‘Open Happiness’ global advertising campaign. The video was introduced yesterday through Coca-Cola’s YouTube channel. “We were looking for a creative [...]
Continue reading...AT&T Brings the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games to Your TV, PC and Mobile Screens
16. January 2010
Wireless Customers Will Have 24/7 NBC Olympics Winter Games Coverage On Their Mobile Phones From the first ski jump to the last triple Axel, America will have more ways to enjoy NBC Universal’s world-class coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with all three AT&T* screens — the TV, the PC, and the mobile [...]
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13. March 2010
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