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Getting Up No Longer PS2 Exclusive in Game News Stardock Forums

Atari has announced via a fiscal report that their soon to be released graffiti game is no longer a PS2 exclusive. Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure will be coming available for Xbox and PC sometime in the fiscal year of 2006, while the PS2 version should hit the streets in Fall 2005. Getting Up puts you in the shoes of a newbie graffiti artist, Trane, looking to leave his mark by painting murals throughout the city. The more daring t

World of Warcraft Hits 2 Million in Game News Stardock Forums

Blizzard has announced that its popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, is apparently extremely popular. In a press release today Blizzard has stated that World of Warcraft has accumulated 2,000,000 monthly subscribers and is continuing to grow. With World of Warcraft's recent launch in China and upcoming launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, the 2 million mark should be quickly raised to a new level. "World of Warcraft continues to surpass all expecta

VU Games Grabs Another in Game News Stardock Forums

MCV has reported that Vivendi Universal Games is close to purchasing yet another independent developer. VU Games has recently acquired Radical Entertainment (The Simpsons: Hit & Run, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction) and Swingin' Ape Studios (Starcraft: Ghost, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System) and has reportedly begun the process of purchasing Swordfish Studios (Cold Winter, World Championship Rugby). MCV claims that an official announcement

Microsoft Finds Movie Deal in Game News Stardock Forums

Halo is going Hollywood, possibly. As previously reported Microsoft had been shopping around a Halo script last week. Along with the script came some hefty demands from Microsoft including a budget of no less than $75 million and creative control. CNN/Money now reports that a tentative deal has been agreed to by Microsoft, Universal and Fox under reduced financial terms. But do

EB, Gamestop Merger Moves in Game News Stardock Forums

The shocking GameStop - Electronics Boutique merger has received the green light to proceed. Combined the companies should represent about 20-30 percent of the market for video games, making them by far the largest specialty store and a hefty competitor to mega-store Wal-Mart. The transaction now has to be approved by the companies' shareholders and is expected to close in the third quarter. Source: <A href="http://yahoo.reuters.com/finance

World Series of Poker Coming Fall 2005 in Game News Stardock Forums

Activision and Harrah's Entertainment have announced that the "World Series of Poker" games are ready to "Shuffle up and Deal." Activision has received exclusive, worldwide rights to publish games for the PC, console and handhelds and expects to have games on the market this fall. "The World Series of Poker is the world's premiere poker event, drawing thousands of entrants and millions of viewers worldwide," said Mark Meadows, Vice Presiden

Reply to IE6 gets tabbed browsing - well kind of in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Tabbed browsing is the greatest invention since browsing...Its like crack, honest.

Atari Strikes Back in Game News Stardock Forums

Atari has made headlines again with a deal worth $65 million with the toy giant Hasbro. Hasbro has purchased the former exclusive gaming rights for its properties from Infogrames, or Atari, depending on which name you choose to go by. Infogrames received the 15 year exclusive rights as part of the deal that as gave it Hasbro Interactive and Games.com in December of 2000. As part of the new deal Infogrames has also entered a new licensing deal with Hasbro for

Actors Union, Publishers Compromise in Game News Stardock Forums

The possible strike of Hollywood actors against video game developers has been avoided. Both sides have agreed upon a new structure that will give actors more money, but at the same time game companies will still only have to pay them a flat fee, not a percentage of game sales. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) were fighting to receive profit sharing benefits, claiming that without the actor

Reply to Halo to hit Silver Screen in Game News Stardock Forums

At any rate a game like Halo has a much larger fan base (by sales) than Tomb Raider (less jiggle factors) or Resident Evil so I would assume more people would go see it, even though so many were disappointed with the GAME'S story.

Reply to Halo to hit Silver Screen in Game News Stardock Forums

Its nice to see them take pride in the game -> movie transition unlike so many other companies who just sell off the name (House of the Dead being the worst of those) but these demands are apparently a little much for most studios to cope with (everyone is being to greedy...). At least the first Resident Evil was enjoyable.

Bonnell Reigns Atari Once More in Game News Stardock Forums

Atari has announced that the Bruce Bonnell is back as Atari CEO, albeit only on a temporary basis. Bonnell has returned to his old position because his replacement, James Caparro, has resigned effective immediately. Caparro has left the company to take the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer of Entertainment Distribution Corp., a division of Glenayre Technologies. Caparro was key in expanding Atari's children's games including the Backyard Spo

Halo to hit Silver Screen in Game News Stardock Forums

Variety has reported that the Halo movie script has finally begun to make its rounds, delivered by couriers dressed as Master Chief. The Xbox/PC game has a drove of followers, with the series selling over 13 million copies and keeping the Xbox afloat during its early hard times. According to Variety the script was written by Alex Garland, The Beach & 28 Days Later, and he was paid $1 million for his creativity. Variety also claims that Microsoft

DICE Closes New York Studio in Game News Stardock Forums

Digital Illusions has announced that it will be closing its New York office, Trauma Studios. All twelve of the employees have been offered positions at the head office in Stockholm, Sweden. Trauma Studios was recently acquired by DICE in September 2004 and was purchased for the rights to trademarks and a new game concept. The closing of the studio will allow DICE to "not pay the supplement payment of 200,000 USD as agreed upon at the time of the acquisition

Reply to Quests quests quests in WoW Stardock Forums

From what I have heard, and I am pretty addicted to the game and such, the expansion you heard of is most likely Battlegrounds that Yarlen mentioned. They rumored plan is that their will be the downloadable patch that will be for free and then an actual expansion that will also include a new class to chose from. This expansion is supposed to come at a fee though, but remember its currently just a rumor.

ParaWorld Delayed in Game News Stardock Forums

A small edit on the ParaWorld website has revealed that RTS has been pushed back a quarter, moving from Q4 of 2005 to Q1 of 2006. The game is being developed by Spieleentwicklungskombinat GmbH, simply known as SEK, the creators of the award winning Wiggles. SEK focuses on RTS games with top-notch graphics and environments, and ParaWorld seems to stay true to the path. Be sure to check out the latest screens to see more of the Jurassic based RTS. Sourc

Area 51 Demo Released in Game News Stardock Forums

Midway has announced that Area 51 for the PC has gone gold and more excitingly, they have released a Demo for those PC gamers starving for the release. The new Area 51 has been created as a first-person story-driven action game with support for up to 16-player multiplayer mayhem. Players eager to hone their skills before release can be grab the demo and begin the alien slaying. Source: BluesNew

Longbow Digital Arts Announces New RTS in Game News Stardock Forums

Longbow Digital Arts has launched the site for Hegemony: Philip of Macedon, a game based on the rise of Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. No detailed information has been released yet, but the site does boast some screenshots, a short video of the RTS in action, a bunch of history on the game's background and opening information on its aspects, such as resource management. Longbow seems to be pretty proud of the "innovative 3D landsca

Dusk 2 Dawn To Publish First Game in Game News Stardock Forums

Gamespot has received word that Neverend, the upcoming title from Bratislava based Mayhem has finally found a PC publisher. The one man publishing crew at Dusk 2 Dawn has landed his first deal with the Neverend. Mayhem has been working on the project for the past three years, morphing the game into a console style RPG with the ability to turn good or evil. Publishing rights for the Xbox version are still up for grabs and the PC version will be hitting the st

Reply to Michael Wilson Pissed at Book in Game News Stardock Forums

Well controversy over books usually helps sell them but I mean for a book like this I don't know how many ppl may purchase it for that reason.

Michael Wilson Pissed at Book in Game News Stardock Forums

Ferrago has caught wind of a new video game lawsuit, only this one has nothing to do with violence. Michael Wilson of Ion Storm has sued Random House over the id Software biography, Masters of Doom, due to some of the books accusations. In the book, written by David Kushner, Wilson is alleged to have used shady business tactics to buy himself a BMW with company money, Wilson obviously denies such claims. "There's nothing they could have possibly said

Ultima Online Expands in Game News Stardock Forums

Ultima Online will be getting its seventh expansion shortly, dubbed Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy. The new expansion will come packed with a load of new features but most notably a new playable race, the Elves. Along with the new Elven race will come new Elven features to the world including combat abilities, architecture, mounts craftables and of course a whole new Elven city. Players will be able to start a new Elven character or even morph thei

Nvidia Preparing to Announce New GPU in Game News Stardock Forums

Gamespot reports that Nvidia will announce its next-generation GPU on June 21st at a launch event in San Francisco. Invitations to the party were sent out to Nvidia partners, analysts and the press and promises an "evening of full-throttle entertainment." After the opening cocktails are served there will be a case-mod contest to be followed by the official press conference and product demonstration. All of this will be followed up with a relaxing Battlefield

Ubisoft Studio Opens in Game News Stardock Forums

According to Gamespot the recently announced new Canadian studio for Ubisoft is now fully operational at 390 Charest East in the Saint-Roch district of Quebec City. The previous announcement states that Ubisoft plans on a staff of 75 by the year's end and around 200 by 2010. The French publisher also plans on funneling in somewhere around $75 million (Canadian) into the new fac

Jaws Bites Back in Game News Stardock Forums

Majesco has let the beast loose, the Jaws Unleashed website is live. The new site features a bit of game information, screenshots, press reactions and an official game trailer. Appaloosa Interactive has taken the helm of this project, switching from creating Dolphin game, Ecco the Dolphin, to the ultimate man eater. In Jaws Unleashed players won't be playing as the local police chief from the movie but instead will play as a shark. As the shark you h