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Articles in the Industry Category

Releases Today: DJ Hero, Forza Motorsport 3, Tekken 6, and More
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Industry on October 27, 2009
Stats: 130 views and Comments

Multiple titles release today across many platforms, including a few AAA titles and even more DS games

Need for Speed Franchise Sells 100 Million Total Copies
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Industry on October 21, 2009
Stats: 118 views and Comments

EA announced today that they have hit their next milestone in domination of the racing genre: the franchise has thus far sold 100 million copies. That is a huge number.

Obama Artist Commissioned for DJ Hero Renegade Edition CD
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Entertainment, Industry on October 14, 2009
Stats: 292 views and Comments

Throughout the years, one aspect of society that has remained separate from the games industry is politics. Maybe games have not matured enough to touch on political topics or maybe nobody is really interested anyways. Whatever the case, politics and gaming have been like oil and water. Read on for more dry and captivating info.

Capcom and Tesla Motors Team Up for Giveaway
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Industry, Tech on October 13, 2009
Stats: 57 views and Comments

Capcom and Tesla Motors join together to give away a few prizes, including a new car and a trip to Vegas.

Uncharted 2, Brutal Legend and Other Games Release Today
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Industry, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 on October 13, 2009
Stats: 206 views and Comments

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Brutal Legend release today to the world. Fallout 3: GOTY Edition, Where the Wild Things Are, and others are available today as well.

EA’s Marketing of the Future?
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Industry, Xbox 360 on October 12, 2009
Stats: 422 views and Comments

We received an email from Electronic Arts after playing the demo of FIFA 10. Is this a future trend considering the personal network marketing that developers have been using (Twitter, Facebook)?

Monster’s Ball Screenwriter to Write Dante’s Inferno Storyline
By Steffen_Shook
Posted in Industry, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 on October 9, 2009
Stats: 240 views and Comments

Today Visceral Games announced the writer for their upcoming game Dante’s Inferno is Academy Award nominated writer Will Rokos. Rokos penned the screenplay for 2001’s Monster’s Ball. Dante’s Inferno executive producer Jonathan Knight commented on Rokos and the storyline.

Modern Warfare 2 Gets a Monster Energy Drink
By nicksmith
Posted in Industry, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 on September 30, 2009
Stats: 4,149 views and Comments

There is another big title to add to this list beginning in just a few short days. Monster Energy Drink has teamed up with what many consider to be the biggest title of 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, to bring a not new branded drink called “Assault” to gamers. In addition to the branding on the packaging, fans will have the opportunity win prizes from COD:MW 2 and Monster.

Newsweek on 64-bit computing
By Pete_LeGrant
Posted in Entertainment, Industry on September 17, 2009
Stats: 7 views and Comments

Check out Newsweek’s article on the differences between 64-bit and 32-bit computing and how it will be more widespread. See the bit about the upshot for gamers:

Thought provoker: "The Non-White Gamer’s Experience"
By Pete_LeGrant
Posted in Entertainment, Industry on September 14, 2009
Stats: 10 views and Comments

Head over to Kotaku.com and check out Owen Good’s well-written article on what it’s like to be a “non-white” in the universe of video games.