| ACCLAIM LAUNCHES ONLINE DANCE GAME
Acclaim Games today announced the launch of the online game DANCE! Online, a free-to-play multiplayer online dancing game. In an industry first, DANCE! Online will feature top talent and master recordings from Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG), making it the first free multiplayer online dance game to feature major label content and artists. With the start of Open Beta testing this week, thousands of U.S. PC users will have the opportunity to dance virtually to songs from select WMG artists. "This is by far the closest collaboration any major music label has ever had with an online game" said Howard Marks, CEO of Acclaim Games. "DANCE! Online has started the music based game revolution which has captured the minds of hundreds of millions of players in Asia", said David Perry, the game's director and industry superstar designer.
Membership Website Offers Unlimited PSP and Xbox 360 Game Downloads
(openPR) - Vancouver, BC – PSP and Xbox 360 gamers are able to download unlimited legal games from a membership website. The innovative web site at PSPNow.net offers games for the Xbox 360, Play Station 2, PS2, PSP, Xbox, GameCube, and more. “We give gamers what they want – unlimited downloads," said Cary Cross, owner of the web site. “These are complete games, not demos. We offer legal software from a list of hundreds of games, as well as music, DVD copy and backup software, MP3 players, CD burning software, online music search, lyrics, Internet radio, popup and spyware removers, and much more." Visitors to the site begin with unlimited searches for any type of games. The site boasts the highest number of available files for free download to members, as well as accelerated downloads. “You can download anything you want, any time you want," said Cross.
Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI create video game history
18 Apr 2007 : Microsoft Corp. and NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. today made video game history by announcing the first-ever Xbox 360™ “Pac-Man" World Championship, presented by Quiznos. From April 25 to May 9, fans of one of the world's most beloved video games of all time will compete on the classic arcade game via Xbox LIVE® Arcade on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, evolving “Pac-Man" gameplay from the local pizza parlors and arcades of the '80s to the Xbox 360 and its online gaming community with more than 6 million members. The top finalists from participating countries around the world will be flown to New York City for the finals on June 5, with the winner being crowned the Xbox 360 “Pac-Man" World Champion by Toru Iwatani, the creator of “Pac-Man." Since launching in 1980 in Japan and in 1981 around the world, “Pac-Man," its host of ghosts and the famous “wakka wakka wakka" sound have become global pop culture icons.
Phil Harrison Answers Your Questions
Right around this time last month, we asked for your questions to pass on to President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Phil Harrison. With the launch of the PlayStation 3 console in Europe, Mr. Harrison has had kind of a full month. He still found us the time to answer your questions, and today we have them to read. Below are his very thorough responses to the questions you posed, ranging in subject from the European delay to the public perception of SCEA. Make sure to give them a look, and many thanks again to Mr. Harrison for his time. .
Mii and You
Hello fellow Nintendo folks. In the four weeks since this column launched the GameSpy Wii has sent out over 25 invites to readers to share Wii Friends Codes and it has received well over 100 random Miis through the power of the Mii Plaza. Interestingly enough, I expect the reader feedback to be a mixture of positive and negative -- as so often is the way -- but for the most part, everyone's been really supportive and happy with how things are turning out. This week, I'll be posing some issues that have come up as well as answer a few more questions that you've kindly submitted. This past week saw flashing blue lights on every Wii connected to the Internet around the globe. Upon further investigation -- and shortly after powering up the GameSpy Wii -- I received an email alert from both Nintendo and Opera stating that the Wii Internet Browser was complete, final, and ready to be downloaded via the shopping channel.
Is the video games industry headed for a crash?
It's larger than Hollywood, its virtual stars may live happily on a diet of bits and bytes, but the video games industry has not been able to insulate itself from upheaval. Yes, gamers are snapping up the new generation of games consoles - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, and Sony's Playstation 3 [PS3], but at huge cost to the industry. Hardware makers are losing hundreds of dollars on every console sold, and games publishers face an "increasingly difficult environment, as rising development costs and small user bases [mean] that return on investment in next generation games development is unlikely to be achieved before 2008," according to media analysts Screen Digest. More importantly, though, the video games publishers are facing a revolution of their business model.
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