Activision brings rock’s hottest hits to all major retailers with the launches of their latest pair of Guitar Hero titles, Guitar Hero® Smash Hits and Guitar Hero® On Tour: Modern Hits. Hitting store shelves today, Guitar Hero Smash Hits expands the experience of previous guitar-only games to the full band so gamers can join together and rock to 48 of the most fun and celebrated tracks from Guitar Hero®, Guitar Hero® II, Guitar Hero® Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock. Featuring all master recordings, Guitar Hero Smash Hits delivers a robust feature set and epic on-disc song list including music from fan-favorite artists such as Alice In Chains, Queen, Poison, Rage Against The Machine, Twisted Sister, Heart and DragonForce.
President Obama spoke to the AMA yesterday in Chicago, about his health care plans. With that speech he did mentions the health care issues with playing video …
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NEW YORK, NY – June 16, 2009 – Atari, one of the world’s most recognized video game publishers, today announced that the highly anticipated, summer blockbuster title, Ghostbusters®: The Video Game is now available at retailers across North America.
Working closely with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and acclaimed development studios Terminal Reality and RedFly, Atari brings this completely all-new chapter of the blockbuster Ghostbusters saga to advanced gaming platforms coinciding with the 25th Anniversary celebration of the film’s original theatrical release. Ghostbusters: The Video Game, based on the smash hit motion picture franchise, is penned by original Ghostbusters writers and stars Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd and reunites many of the original cast members. In addition, the game also launches today along with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s worldwide debut of the original motional picture on Blu-ray Disc™.
A while back EGM became another casualty in print journalism. Earlier this year EGM stopped is magazine distributions, and those still with out-standing subscriptions where left wondering….Give me my money …
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Haarlem, The Netherlands – 16 June 2009 – Up and Coming videogame publisher Iceberg Interactive announced today that it has signed a Publisher License Agreement with Nintendo of Europe GmbH. This agreement will allow Iceberg Interactive to publish and develop products on the Wii™, the Nintendo DS™ and the Nintendo DSi™ platforms.
Erik Schreuder, CEO of Iceberg Interactive said, “This is a significant milestone in the growth of the company. It gives us the opportunity to further expand our product catalogue and take Iceberg Interactive to the next level. We look forward to working with Nintendo.”
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Fun Park Party (Wii) – 19/06/2009 Imagine My Boutique (DS) – 6/26/2009 My Cooking Coach: Prepare Healthy Recipes (DS/DSi) – 26/06/2009 Classic Word Games (DS/DSi) – 26/06/2009 Summer Sports Party …
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A survey commissioned by the Develop Conference (14-16 July, Brighton) has revealed that Japanese games legend Shigeru Miyamoto is the game developers’ game development hero.
In a poll of 9,000 game developers from across the globe, almost one third (30 per cent) of respondents recognised Miyamoto as their ultimate development hero, ahead of an impressive top ten, which reads as follows:
1. Shigeru Miyamoto – often referred to as ‘the father of modern video games’ for his role in creating legendary games franchises Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero and titles such as Nintendogs and Wii Music
Ever since Mityamoto showed off the Zelda art E3, there has been a lot speculations and dissecting of that single piece of art, mostly the person/thing behind Link. The first …
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Starting June 19, the service rolls out a DS wireless service at restaurants across Japan. Customers who bring their DS units to McDonalds can download items and …
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