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King Kong Nabs Video Game Awards Nominations
The larger than life movie King Kong has some competition from its video game title, Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie. King Kong dominated the nominations for the first Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEA), garnering nods in 7 of the 12 categories for …
Posted on: August 16, 2006 at 1:49 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
More Trouble for Reservoir Dogs
Following on the heels of Australia and New Zealand, where the game has already been banned, a Lancashire MP is calling for Reservoir Dogs to be banned from being sold in the United Kingdom, as well. MP Lindsay Hoyle, of Chorley, has “signed a House of Commons motion calling for the …
Posted on: August 10, 2006 at 5:40 am on Playfeed - 2 comments total -
Homeless: The Video Game
Terry Lavender, a resident of Vancouver’s West End, is Simon Fraser University (SFU) Surrey’s communications manager, and also studies in the SFU’s school of interactive arts and technology. Lavender has created a video game called, Homeless: It’s No Game, as part of his graduate studies. He hopes to determine “whether it’s …
Posted on: August 10, 2006 at 5:20 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
First Vegetarian Video Game
Gamers tired of all the meat-and-potatoes fare being consistently served up by the industry at large, now have a feel-good, vegetarian alternative—LarryBoy and the Bad Apple for Game Boy Advance. Based upon the popular children’s characters, the VeggieTales, this game allows you to slip on the cape of a crime-fighting, superhero …
Posted on: August 10, 2006 at 5:00 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Jury Selection Begins In Deltona Xbox Murder Case
Three men are charged with the brutal clubbing and stabbing of six people in Deltona, FL. in an attack supposedly perpetrated in order to recover an Xbox video game console belonging to the group’s alleged ringleader, Troy Victorino. A fourth man, Robert Cannon, has already plead guilty to the charges, …
Posted on: July 06, 2006 at 5:15 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Tallarico To Talk At EIEF
The Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival (EIEF) conference is scheduled to take place August 21-22, and Tommy Tallarico will be there talking about game music. Tallarico, who is a co-creator of “Video Games Live” and a respected game music composer (Advent Rising, Earthworm Jim), will explore the future of music, as a …
Posted on: July 06, 2006 at 5:00 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Game Helps Fight Cancer
A free video game called Remission is helping young patients fight cancer. Created by a non-profit organization located in Palo Alto, CA. called Hopelab, the game is rated for teens and young adults. Remission is a third-person shooter following the exploits of Roxxi, a nanobot video babe who does battle with …
Posted on: July 05, 2006 at 5:50 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Retailers Should Make Plans to Stave Off Decline
As digital distribution of video games takes off, video game retailers are finding themselves in the same spot that music retailers were just a few years ago. The question now is whether traditional brick-and-mortar video game retailers will embrace the upcoming digital revolution or end up scrambling to recover as traditional …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 5:40 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Prey Gets Upstart Human Head Notice
Human Head Studios, an independent game development company located in Madison, Wisconsin, is primed to release Prey, a highly anticipated game for both PC and Xbox 360 due out on 10-July. Prey is the company’s fifth game for PC, and sixth overall title. Human Head was founded in 1997 when seven …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 5:10 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Kiwis to Virtually Clone Jackass
Sidhe Interactive, a game development company in Wellington, New Zealand, has won the contract to make Jackass (the American TV series) into a video game. Founded in 1997 by kiwis Stuart Middleton, Mario Wynands, and Tyrone McAuley, the company built a solid reputation mainly by developing franchise titles, including a popular …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 4:55 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Brain Teasers Win Popularity
Intelligence is the new black, and the video game industry hopes the suddenly popularity in intellectual challenges translates into increased sales for a number of newly released games in this category. Nintendo’s Brain Age is leading the challenge, but there are several other notables in the electronic “brain teaser” arena. Big …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 3:10 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Craven Thinks Games Hold Promise
Wes Craven, the man behind several very successful movie franchises, recently spoke at the MI6 Game Marketing conference. He had some interesting thoughts on the current and future state of the video game industry, saying that video games will become ever more prominent providing the target audience is not underestimated. “Young …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 2:55 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Shatner to Host Canadian Video Game Awards Show
William Shatner has agreed to host the first ever Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA) this year. Canadian achievements in talent development (New Media and Animation Art Schools), animation, and video game development will be honored at the program. CAEAA Producer Holly Carinci said, “We wanted Mr. Shatner …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 2:39 pm on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Kids’ Bible Story Games
New pricing has been announced for the latest edition of the Faith Explorer video game series. Cokesbury and Third Day Games would like for churches to be able to give copies of Faith Explorer to all children in their congregations, and have introduced a licensing program to facilitate such widespread adoption. …
Posted on: June 30, 2006 at 8:30 am on Playfeed - 0 comments total -
Game Developers Look for Main St.
Video games are increasingly popular with popular culture – rap acts want to do game soundtracks, movie stars want to voice characters—but the average American has yet to buy into the hype. Still the game industry pushes ahead, hoping to find a watershed moment where every home in America will own …
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