Planetwide Media today announced the launch of the MashON? Spore? E-Card Creator, an online application that allows players to create and send personalized E-cards featuring their customized content from the Spore Creature Creator and the highly-anticipated game Spore, shipping this September from Maxis, an Electronic Arts studio.
Featuring a complete visual update to take advantage of the Xbox 360's superior processing power and graphics chipset, along with a whole roster of brand new features, PDC World Championship Darts will be the definitive version in the acclaimed series. In addition, the Order of Merit and World Rankings of the professional players in the game has been updated since PDC World Championship Darts 2008 to ensure the most up-to-date statistics possible in the Career Mode.
A modern take on such beloved tales as Cinderella, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Paul Bunyan, Fairy Tales and Adventures will each offer four different stories that incorporate motion sensitive controls so that parents and preschoolers can tell stories together.
Today a new release date was announced for real-time strategy war game East India Company. Originally scheduled for release in Q4 2008, leading software publisher Lighthouse Interactive and developer Nitro Games decided to extend the release date to Q1 2009 in the best interest of fans and the game. This dynamic real-time strategy war game for Windows? PC is based on the exploits and adventures of the infamous 18th century East India Companies. Playing as one of eight nations spanning Europe to the Far East, players are challenged to build the World's most powerful trading empire as they engage in fierce open sea battles in both single player and multiplayer modes.
uTest, the software testing marketplace, is capitalizing on the expansive growth of online gaming by providing game makers with real-world testing services through its global community of professional testers. uTest offers a full range of technical, functional, usability and load testing services for online gaming companies, an industry which PriceWaterhouseCooper expects will more than double in the next five years, from $6.6 billion in 2007 sales to $14.4 billion in 2012.
Having seen the incredible impact the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS has had on female gamers, it only makes sense to see a release of this highly popular television show that attracts the female demographic for both of these systems.
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) now owns the ground-breaking, critically acclaimed PoxNora online collectible strategy game and the other key assets for future game development from Tucson-based Octopi, LLC. As part of the acquisition, members of the Octopi development team will form the core of SOE's new Tucson studio, focusing on the continuing support of PoxNora as well as working with SOE's Denver studio on new trading card and strategy game projects. The transaction closed Friday, January 16, 2009.
Mysteries of Fire Island is a puzzle adventure game for Windows based computers that combines the look and feel of a casual console RPG with an innovative mouse-driven puzzle mechanic. To solve the game's many puzzles, you must interact with different creatures, collaborate with NPCs, and control mechanical objects. As you progress through the game, a variety of magic powers are introduced which allow you to manipulate objects, create matter, and even travel through time.
Things don't always go smooth with video game launches and developers sometime feel the bitter taste of commercial failure firsthand, especially when there is no strong publishing house to back them up. This is a pose we came to be accustomed to, yet the gaming scene now sees a different kind of downfall. Runestone was the company that developed and released Seed on May 2nd 2006, a non-combat cartoonish MMORPG placed in a post-punk sci-fi universe. Unable to secure a deal with a publisher, Runestone eventually ran out of money and is now forced to completely shutdown servers, service and further game development. An in-game "burial" ceremony took place yesterday with players and developers attending, but while servers are still online, they are slowly drifting towards an impending death.
Acclaim has now issued the official press release announcing 2Moons, their upcoming and reportedly highly violent free fantasy MMORPG. The game's official web site has also launched and people can now register for the upcoming beta test. 2Moons is a free fantasy MMORPG that relies on advertising to make money. The involvement of former Shiny founder David Perry has been conformed as the head of the development team.