Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Company, Developers and Publishers, Electronic Arts, Games, London, Playfish, Video game, Wall Street Journal
Electronic Arts announced that it plans to acquire the assets of Playfish, a London-based developer of online social games, for at least $275 million. Meanwhile, the company said it will cut 17% of its workforce — about 1,500 jobs — and close several facilities in hopes of saving about $100 million annually. The Wall Street Journal (11/9) , Reuters (11/9)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: 1920s, Arts, Games, Roleplaying, Social Sciences, United States, Variety, Video game
The Mouse House will reintroduce its famous mascot in “Epic Mickey,” a videogame due late next year that will revive several of the character’s key personality traits that have been dulled or forgotten since his introduction in the late 1920s. (Variety11/2)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Activision, Disc jockey, DJ, DJ Hero, Games, Guitar Hero, Music, Music video game
Activision adds another chapter to its already impressive music game franchise today with the release of DJ Hero. Like Guitar Hero before it, DJ Hero challenges you to “master” a virtual instrument, in this case the vinyl turntable still in use by many a DJ even in the digital age. (Mashable 10/27)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Games, Hardware, Microsoft, Percentage, Video game, XBox, Xbox 360, XBox Live
Microsoft
just announced sales of Xbox 360 consoles have passed the 30 million mark globally, up 28 percent over last year, which it claims is the highest percentage growth in hardware sales of any console so far in 2009. In addition, the Xbox LIVE community has grown to over 20 million users, coming from 26 countries. (http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28/xbox-360-sales-top-30-million-with-20-million-live-subscribers/ 5/28)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Console Platforms, Games, New York, Nintendo, Nintendo America, Reggie Fils-Aime, Video Games, Wii
Nintendo has some tricks up its sleeve, but adding voice services to its consoles is not among them, an executive said. “Telephony is not in our wheelhouse. It’s not something I anticipate us getting into,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, the head of Nintendo of America. But he added that Nintendo was considering adding Wi-Fi connectivity to its handheld games. The New York Times/Bits blog (5/26) , MocoNews.net (5/27)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Advertising, Apple, Business, EntertainmentWeekly, Games, Hearst Interactive Media, Time Inc, VoxPop
VoxPop.TV, a site where users can build their own games and make money on them through advertising, is bringing in $1.5 million in a new round of funding led by Hearst Interactive Media. Time Inc.‘s Entertainment Weekly has used VoxPop’s platform to produce quizzes. (Iwantmedia 5/20, http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/19/voxpoptv-lands-15m-for-pop-culture-gaming/ 5/19)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Business, Facebook, Games, Sarah Lacy, TechCrunch, Twitter, United States, Zynga
Zynga
, the online gaming publisher, is making a ton of money. Just how much? Well, earlier reports put revenue at something around $50 million, but some new numbers obtained by Sarah Lacy suggests that it’s closer to $100 million. And clearly, it’s accelerating. We’re hearing that the run rate for 2009 may even be well above that. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/29/zynga-pushing-nine-figures-in-revenues-thanks-to-micro-transactions/ 4/29)
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