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MTV Networks Asia and GigaMedia to Co-Develop World’s First SpongeBob SquarePants Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)
Deal Marks First MMOG to Feature a Nickelodeon Television Property SpongeBob SquarePants Creative Team to Collaborate on Development MTV Networks Asia, a division of Viacom Inc, and leading Asian online games company GigaMedia Limited (Nasdaq: GIGM) today announced plans to co-develop and jointly publish the first Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) based upon Nickelodeon’s global smash animation [...]
Continue reading...‘Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer’ to Launch on May 11th
Monday, April 26, 2010
First expansion to the best-selling MMO ‘Age of Conan’ launches 11th of May 2010 Funcom is proud to announce the launch of the pre-order video game campaign for ‘Rise of the Godslayer’, the first expansion for the highly acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’. The expansion, set in the eastern empire [...]
Continue reading...New Survey Reveals Social Gaming Phenomenon in U.S. and U.K.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Nearly a Quarter of All Consumers Now Play Social Games Regularly; Women Drive Latest Video Game Trend Ahead of Men PopCap Games, maker of some of the world’s most popular video games, today unveiled the results of a survey targeting “social gamers”: Consumers in the U.S. and UK who play games on social networking platforms such [...]
Continue reading...The Twilight Saga: New Moon Themes Up Habbo Hotel
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Summit Entertainment and Habbo Hotel, the largest virtual world for teenagers, today revealed new details for the exclusive The Twilight Saga: New Moon-themed activities, rooms, virtual goods and much more planned to kick-off at Habbo Hotel this week to celebrate the highly anticipated release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on November 20. Beginning November 6, [...]
Continue reading...Travel Prospects in Virtual Worlds
Saturday, August 22, 2009
With the increasing demand to watch our carbon footprint, many people are considering putting off their plane ride tickets to help ease their carbon emissions. But don’t let that stop your travelling experience! That’s what virtual worlds are for. The Brisbane Times writes that at the national Tourism Futures conference at the Gold Coast on Wednesday, [...]
Continue reading...Swine Flu and Virtual Worlds
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The flu is always seen as an afterthought disease which will just subside after a few days of rest, water therapy and a good dose of paracetamol. But when news of the dreaded swine flu broke out a few months ago, the entire world was caught in hysteria and paranoia. After all past strains of [...]
Continue reading...Architecture in Virtual Worlds: Rebuilding a Castle
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Is there a limit to the things which you cannot do in virtual worlds? The World Wide Web is slowly and surely getting all the possibilities inside these online 3D environments and social communities. We have the emergence of Facebook and Twitter as a must-use social utility which will render you behind the times if [...]
Continue reading...The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World
Sunday, August 9, 2009
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmBrRcFSwM[/youtube] The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World is an exciting new online virtual world for kids aged 7 to 14 due to launch in the Christmas of 2009. Adapted from a popular children story book series, The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks contains loads of fun and exciting games and adventures that promote the spirit of [...]
Continue reading...China : Keep Our Values, Lose our Video Games
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Confucius’ Golden Rule teaches us to do to others things that we want to be done to us. The Chinese Government intends to enforce this rule with an iron hand, and it will make sure that the citizens will not break it… not even in video games. Just this Monday, China’s Ministry of Culture has announced [...]
Continue reading...The Kelly Hildebrandts Story: More Than Just Online Serendipity
Friday, July 24, 2009
The proposal has been made… and has been accepted. This October, the cyber-fairy godmother will have completed yet another cyber-fairy tale— Kelly Hildebrandt will finally be marrying Kelly Hildebrandt. And there is not even a typo in that sentence. It all started when Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20 years old, got curious with the online social community [...]
Continue reading...Twitter and Terminator Schwarzenegger
Friday, July 24, 2009
Sometimes we don’t get it why many people complain about their politicians – and when they are trying to do something against the problem (and in a creative way at that), most people immediately criticize. This is what’s happening with the famous California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenneger, most popularly known as the face of the 3D [...]
Continue reading...Ubisoft Creates New Social Gaming Experience on Facebook
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ubisoft stepped into the online social gaming medium, unveiling UbiFriends, a new gaming portal on Facebook Platform. The portal will regularly offer new online video games and applications for Facebook users to share and have fun with their Facebook friends. The first game available on UbiFriends is TickTock, a trivia game designed to test Facebook [...]
Continue reading...Virtual Communities Unite for King of Pop
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The headline from CNN looked a bit of a joke at first but it is true “Michael Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet with Him.” No, there is nothing funny about the first part because the entire world is mourning with the loss of the King of Pop, rather, the dangling phrase which followed about the [...]
Continue reading...MTV Virtual Worlds – a Precedent to Further Interactivity
Saturday, June 27, 2009
When MTV first launched in the 1970s, it blazed a trail of exploring the possibilities of multimedia. A channel dedicated to music videos such as Video Killed the Radio Star was such a novel idea that it immediately caught the fancy of the up-and-coming generation of its time. Now will that same foresight be beneficial [...]
Continue reading...Classrooms without Blackboards
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
On average, a new technology would have to take about ten years or so before it becomes integrated into everyday life. We’ve seen this with mobile phones and the World Wide Web. With the emergence of commercial and free virtual worlds, technology is once again expanding in its reach with a host of features to [...]
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