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Old School Gamers Shout For Joy
ArcadeMojo | September 3rd 2008
GOG.com or Good Old Games, the new games-on-demand platform offering all-time PC classics, is turning a new leaf, entering a new chapter, going where no site has gone before. From Monday, September 8, onward, the closed press beta will come to an end read more
Why They Killed E3
ArcadeMojo | August 29th 2008
Great summary: “I understand why they really pulled the plug on the big E3. Looking at the amount of money a company like EA would spend on it, it was ridiculous amounts of money just to be present and competitive with everyone else, so I think read more
Back to school with the hottest video games
ArcadeMojo | August 27th 2008
Here’s the next installment of our “Get Your Game On” series, in which CNN.com speaks to experts about what’s hot in video gaming. This week, G4TV’s Morgan Webb discusses the new games kids will be buzzing about in the halls and around the read more
Atari: The Golden Years — A History, 1978-1981
ArcadeMojo | August 22nd 2008
Atari was founded in 1972, but its crowning accomplishments in console gaming and computers were the Atari Video Computer System (or 2600) and the Atari 400/800 line of personal computers. This four-year period — from 1977 to 1981 — conta read more
Wii All You Can Be? Why the Military Needs the Gaming Industry
ArcadeMojo | August 18th 2008
NEW YORK — Last week was Fleet Week here, so a few of us from Popular Mechanics walked over to Pier 88 on the Hudson River to check out some of the latest gee-whiz weaponry from the Office of Naval Research. I got an in-seat tour of the new Lightwe read more
Parents horrified as most violent video game ever to launch on …
ArcadeMojo | August 13th 2008
A new computer game tipped to be the most violent ever is being released exclusively on the so-called ‘family friendly’ Wii console.Nintendo will dramatically transform Wii’s image with the release of ultra violent video game MadW read more
Blu-Ray On Xbox? No Way
ArcadeMojo | August 5th 2008
Give up any hopes you might have had about adding a Blu-Ray player to your Xbox 360. Shane Kim, vice president of strategy and business development for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment business, tells me that the company has “no in read more
Being a better gamer: a guide to changing the world
ArcadeMojo | July 31st 2008
Truth, Lies, and Video Games Apathy is for losers. Fine, you don’t have time to start a charity or fight Jack [Thompson], then let your work do the talking. Your collective creative output is the real ambassador that touches millions on a globa read more
Rockstar rocks award ceremony
ArcadeMojo | July 31st 2008
David Braben may have warned that the UK is the most expensive place in the world to make games, but this year’s Develop awards showed that the country has no shortage of talent. Grand Theft Auto IV developer Rockstar North led the pack with aw read more
WarGames Strategy Games
ArcadeMojo | July 28th 2008
Military.com has developed some games based on WarGames. Here they are! Game 1: Capture the Black Box http://images.military.com/games/wargames2/0,16808,game01_main,00.html Game 2: Prison Camp Raid http://images.military.com/games/wargames2/0,16808,g read more
US game sales surpass DVDs
ArcadeMojo | July 2nd 2008
According to the NPD Group’s year-end figures, the US retail gaming industry took in $18.85 billion during 2007. That’s nearly twice the Motion Picture Association of America and Nielsen EDI’s record-setting US box office take of $9 read more
PS3 trophies, in-game XMB due today!
ArcadeMojo | July 2nd 2008
Sony officially outlines medal-based leveling system for its console; trophies not retroactive, background music game-specific; full video demo inside. Following a spate of leaks last week, Sony has officially announced that the PlayStation 3’s read more
Sony’s Big Plan: Video Downloads Everywhere, From PS3 To TVs To…
ArcadeMojo | June 26th 2008
Sony’s (SNE) next big growth push, outlined by CEO Howard Stringer in Tokyo: Video downloads and Internet access on as many gadgets as possible, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sony will start with movies and other videos on its Playstati read more
Sony Outlines Strategy for Growth In TV, Videogame Businesses
ArcadeMojo | June 26th 2008
TOKYO – After spending the last three years restructuring the company, Sony Corp. set a new growth strategy centered around video-downloading services and electronics products that can be connected to each other and to the Internet. The Japanese el read more
Nintendo ‘least green tech firm’
ArcadeMojo | June 25th 2008
Games firm Nintendo has come bottom of a ranking of the world’s most eco-friendly electronics firms. The quarterly Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics ranks 18 electronics firms by how green their production processes and products are. In read more
Stringer: Games are top priority
ArcadeMojo | June 20th 2008
Sony is aiming to have its game division back in the black as soon as possible. According to chairman Sir Howard Stringer, Sony’s top management priority is “to restore profitability in our television and game businesses.” Speakin read more
MGS4 boosts PS3 sales in Japan
ArcadeMojo | June 20th 2008
Guns of the Patriots shoots to the number one spot in the Land of the Rising Sun, shifts just under 500,000 in its first week on sale. It wasn’t quite a million sold on day one, but Konami must still be quite pleased with last week’s sa read more
THQ taps out UFC 2009 details
ArcadeMojo | June 20th 2008
Undisputed to bring more than 80 MMA stars to the Xbox 360 and PS3, with create-a-fighter and career modes in tow. It’s been well over a year since THQ announced its plans to make Ultimate Fighting Championship games, but the only details kno read more
Hardy Boys sleuthing on PC
ArcadeMojo | June 20th 2008
Classic children’s adventure novels to be remade into a series of adventure games; first to be released this autumn. With the original Hardy Boys book released in 1927, the adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy stand as the longe read more
EA Releases Spore Creature Creator
ArcadeMojo | June 19th 2008
Electronic Arts (EA) on Tuesday announced the release of Spore Creature Creator, a software application that serves as the introduction to the highly-anticipated game Spore, which will be released in September. Spore Creature Creator — availabl read more
Study: 2012 game revs to hit $68.3 billion
ArcadeMojo | June 19th 2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers paper says global game-industry sales will grow $26.4 billion in just five years. Although sectors of the world economy are currently stagnating, the game industry is booming. Last year, the NPD Group reported nearly $19 billio read more
Is motion sensor gaming a gimmick?
ArcadeMojo | June 16th 2008
Here’s an interesting article from Don Reisinger at CNet: As a Wii owner, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time playing my way through games that required me moving around the room, jumping up and down like a fool, and generally using read more
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge
ArcadeMojo | June 16th 2008
On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies. Nvidia’s GTX 280 and GTX 260 are designed to deliver the biggest performance bang per chip. A so-called “monoli read more
First SlipStream Episode
Cult Gamer | June 14th 2008 by Cult Gamer
Here’s a fascinating work of machinima utilizing the Second Life game engine. The web show series is called SlipStream, made by volunteers of the online virtual world Second Life and produced by Jim Gustafson. The show is reminiscent of the old read more
Video Game Addicts Are Not Shy Nerds
ArcadeMojo | June 12th 2008
But it’s probably still bad for your health. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Playing video games for hours on end may be bad for your health, but, according to an Australian study, it doesn’t mean you are a lonely nerd and won’t damage your soc read more
iPhone 3G? How about iPhone Gaming!
ArcadeMojo | June 11th 2008
I think the addition of games made specifically for the iPhone should make things pretty interesting on the mobile gaming front. Here’s more on this from CNET: One of the more intriguing outcomes from the iPhone SDK and the upcoming App Store i read more
Flagship programmer claims staff are leaving “in droves”
ArcadeMojo | June 11th 2008
Guy Somberg, an audio and gameplay programmer at Flagship Studios, has said that staff are leaving the Hellgate: London developer “in droves”. He says that poor sales of the EA published game, and negative consumer feedback has left the s read more
LucasArts Confirms Layoffs, Says The Dev Is Still Healthy
ArcadeMojo | June 6th 2008
News of the rumored layoffs at LucasArts that we broke yesterday afternoon were confirmed today by the developer, which maintained that they remain committed to their internal studio.”I can confirm we had layoffs yesterday they were in the stud read more
The Princess Bride Game is by Women, for Women
ArcadeMojo | June 6th 2008
It’s finally here! Experience True Love and High Adventure with the new downloadable animated game based on the classic film The Princess Bride from Worldwide Biggies. The game will be available for download on June 11th for $19.99 on the game’s read more
Badass Game Release Schedule
ArcadeMojo | June 4th 2008
Want to know when a game is set to hit the streets? Want to peruse lists of upcoming games? This website is for you. Game-Releases.net is an extremely simple schedule of release dates for all major video game consoles. Eat it up. # read more
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