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Turbo Subs Game

The Turbo Subs game is Oberon Games’ sequel to the hit Time Management game, Turbo Pizza. But this time, instead of pizza, Robert and Rebecca are now pitted in the world of subway sandwich making. In fact, your first restaurant locati [...]

Posted On : Mar, 19 2008 | Comments : 0

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Developer Diary

The second Developer Diary for the last entry in the Rainbow Six Vegas sub-series released today. This one addresses the topics of Multi-Player and Co-op, dropping nuggets such as drop-in-drop-out co-op and a story explanation for the Co-op [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Crysis

It was hard not to be completely impressed when the first images and videos of Crysis appeared about 18 months ago. Scenes of lush jungles and towering alien war machines looked light-years beyond what seemed possible. Of course, the two [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Mobile games industry eyes social networking, Nokia

A boom in social networking and a new delivery platform from Nokia offer mobile video game publishers a boost after a slowdown in 2007. The mobile gaming market suffered an unexpected slump last year, with many game developers and analys [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Online gaming breathes life into small, independent studios

Like big-budget movies, video games can cost tens of millions of dollars and take years to produce. Top game studios have strict, high-pressure deadlines, large development teams and lots of overhead costs. With so much at stake, publisher [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Nokia starts roll-out of gaming, networking sites

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) began the roll-out of its "N-Gage" gaming service and "Share on Ovi" media sharing site on Tuesday as falling handset prices spur the world's largest cell phone maker to expand into mobile Internet servi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Video game predictions for 2008

The Playstation 3 will close the gap, but software will lag until the Fall It's hard for anyone to argue that 2007 was a good year for the Sony Playstation 3. The success of the Playstation 2, combined with years of hype due to multiple d [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

China's online gaming population exceeds 40 million

Suzhou -- The number of online gamers in China rose 23 percent to 40.17 million last year, according to an industry survey. Regular subscribers comprised 22.36 million of the total, up 30 percent from 2006, said the survey, which was relea [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

MTV Games, Jerry Bruckheimer Announce Partnership To Make Or...

In what may be the last surprise in a fall season full of head-turning video game business deals, MTV Games has announced a video game development partnership with "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "CSI" super-producer Jerr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2007 | Comments : 0

Gamer jargon becomes word of the year

The word "W00t" is widely used by online gamersA word widely used among online gamers has topped an online poll for Word of the Year run by US publishing group Merriam Webster.The word "W00t" got most votes in the poll l [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

The Ps3 Games Mystery

The news is out: the PS3 games console is to be launched simultaneously around the globe in November 2006. But despite the grand global launch plan for the PS3 games console, there are doubts about its impact on the market. Even more, game [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2007 | Comments : 0