Tag Archive | "virtual world"
3D Soccer Avatars
Darwin Dimensions, creator of Evolver, the world’s first web based tool for building custom 3D animation character models, and Avatara, a 3D avatar generator designed specifically for social media enthusiasts, has upgraded its content library to include pro soccer apparel and realistic soccer animations for 3D characters created on the site. Timed with the World Cup, [...]
Continue reading...Sony Online & Lucasarts Bring Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures To The PC
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced the development of Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, a free-to-play, action packed virtual world for fans of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series on Cartoon Network. Developed and published by SOE, creators of the critically acclaimed kids’ game, Free Realms, and licensed by LucasArts, in conjunction [...]
Continue reading...New BrandBoost Advertising Platform for Social Games
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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...Kids Get Fit While Having Fun at New Interactive, Virtual Entertainment Facility
Sunday, March 7, 2010
The ongoing advancements in gaming technology have created a generation of kids more interested in the latest, greatest video games than traditional outdoor games such as freeze tag, hide-n-seek or hop scotch. To address this craze, The InZONE©, an interactive gaming venue, will open its doors Saturday, March 6, to serve Pearland and the [...]
Continue reading...Forum on the Future of Social and Mobile Gaming at GDC 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 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...Mediafreaks Invites You to First Facebook MMORPG: City of Eternals (100 Ohais Up for Grabs)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
The 3D animation team of Media Freaks received an exclusive invite to the launching this December of the City of Eternals, the first MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) to be set in a world of modern vampires. We are happy to return the favor by handing out holiday gifts to all the readers [...]
Continue reading...Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Goes Free For Two Weeks
Friday, November 13, 2009
Funcom has decided to repeat the successful re-evaluation campaign that went live earlier this year for the best-selling massively multiplayer online role-playing video game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’. Previously active players are encouraged to come back to the game and play free of charge for two entire weeks. As an additional incentive for players to [...]
Continue reading...Roboni-i Launches at Retail, Marking the Rise of Robotic Gaming
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Robonica, a South African/U.S. start-up focused on developing new forms of robotic entertainment, today announces its eagerly anticipated launch of Roboni-i. Fusing elements of robotics, R/C vehicles and interactive gaming, this revolutionary product will create a brand new entertainment category dubbed “Robotic Gaming” by delivering meaningful and structured gameplay – whether alone, with friends or online. “Robotic [...]
Continue reading...Gamer Has 568 Visual Design shots from yu+Co
Friday, September 18, 2009
yU+co. accomplished the task of visualizing the futuristic virtual world of Gamer using motion graphics applied as visual effects. Designing and executing over 568 shots and elements, this ambitious undertaking became one of the most elaborate motion graphics projects committed to film. Set in a dystopian future where the worlds of entertainment and gaming have merged, [...]
Continue reading...Twilight Now in the Virtual World of Habbo
Friday, September 4, 2009
Now, Twilight fans get to anticipate something more than the new film New Moon. Summit Entertainment and Habbo, the largest virtual world for teenagers, today announced an exclusive, first-time global partnership that will extend the Twilight film franchise and brand experience to the online virtual community of Habbo. The deal will provide Habbo licensing rights to [...]
Continue reading...Ramadan Sessions in Second Life
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Yet another example of how virtual communities are strongly gaining acceptance in the real world is its pivotal role in the coming holy celebration of Ramadan for our Muslim brethren. A sermon entitled “Ramadan, oh youth!” is set to be delivered inside the virtual world of Second Life. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Ghamdi, the Mecca director of the [...]
Continue reading...Blizzard Says Azeroth Doesn’t Need “Help”
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The online virtual world of Azeroth has been getting a lot of buzz lately. This Friday in Las Vegas, in a conference where guys from Blizzard and hackers from the World of Warcraft gaming community were supposed to resolve security matters, the highlight seemed to be more of an issue about attendance. “Botting” has been a [...]
Continue reading...Google Tries a Second Life with Lively
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Google’s Lively is a Web-based project similar to Second Life. This shows a re-creation of Google headquarters, complete with the T. Rex skeleton. Google on Tuesday plans to unveil an online 3D social arena called Lively, the Internet giant’s take on Second Life. But Google wants it to be part of your first life. Second Life requires [...]
Continue reading...Club Penguin the 2nd – The Race is On!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Not so long ago, Disney procured Club Penguin – a virtual world for kids between 6 to 14 – for a cool $350 million and the deal also allowed the founders an opportunity to make another $350 million from now till 2009. The website was barely 2 years old when it was procured. At the time [...]
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Friday, June 25, 2010
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