EA Mobile™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. the develops and publishes mobile games, today announced six new titles that are available on the Apple App Store. The mobile games Star Trek®, AMERICAN IDOL™, TRIVIAL PURSUIT, Lemonade Tycoon™, Pandemonium™! and Anytime Pool are available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
NEW YORK - Gameloft®, a leading publisher and developer of digitally distributed video games, announced today a worldwide licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution to develop, publish and distribute the mobile game for the highly anticipated Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ film Sherlock Holmes directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey, Jr. The game is scheduled for release prior to the U.S. theatrical release on Christmas Day 2009.
When the Nintendo Wii cam out, it has introduced a new novel concept in console gaming. Everyone will always remember the stories of flying Wii remotes ever since it was introduced a couple of years back. We can even hear of more class action suits about it’s wrist straps recently.
But still, gamesindustrybiz writes that the Nintendo Wii continues to break unit sales records in the US. The year 2008 has seen it breaking the 10 million unit sales barrier with a total of 10.17 million units. The Nintendo DS handheld has also performed well in terms of sales with 9.95 million units.
Date: 31 Jul 2000
Electronic Arts announced that The Sims was the top-grossing PC game in North America for the first six months of 2000 according to PC Data. The game rose to the top of the charts when it began shipping to stores during the first week of February. The Sims has been translated into 13 languages and has sold more than 1.8 million copies worldwide.
You'll be busting ghosts soon enough.
Terminal Reality, the developers of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, have spoken. The highly-anticipated game is coming out worldwide the week of June 16, 2009. Interestingly, Sony Pictures (not SCEI) would also be releasing a Blu-ray edition of the film. Finally.
You’re probably wondering: why wait all the way till June for a Blu-ray copy of Ghostbusters? Because June marks the film’s 25th anniversary. Ghostbusters was released last June 8, 1984. The game is supposed to be a third installment of the series, but since Venkman, Stanz, Spengler, and Zeddemore are a bit too old for an encore, a video game is made instead.
Press Release: NEW YORK – Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones and consoles, announced today a worldwide multi-year licensing agreement to develop, publish and distribute the popular card game, UNO™. In addition to the iPhone and iPod versions currently available, UNO™ will now also be available across mobile phones, PlayStation 3 Network, PlayStation Portable Network, WiiWare and DSi Ware. The game will be available for these platforms in 2009.
It’s January. The parties may be over, but there’s never a shortage of gaming news in what is considered to be a slow period for video games. A lot of buzz can be heard as the International Consumer Electronics Show is being held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The game in question? Killzone 2. There are a couple of new trailers on the floor, and it’s time you see them:
See the next one after the jump:
This is the newest addition to the ever popular Guitar Hero® video game series from Activision. Guitar Hero® On Tour: Decades™ allows gamers to unleash their inner rockstar anytime, anywhere and for the first time ever share their music with friends as they embark on a tour through the decades of rock.
Compatible with the smash hit Guitar Hero®: On Tour™, the game leverages the technology of its predecessor and expands the experience with a new progression taking players on a musical journey from the classics of the 1970’s through today’s greatest hits. With a new library of music, characters and venues, the game delivers a portable way for gamers to unleash their inner rockstars while playing through the history of rock ’n’ roll.
Toshiba has recently announced some notebooks for the Japanese market that are well suited for gaming. A couple of the new Toshiba notebooks are equipped with 15-inch and 18-inch displays that have a 16:9 screen aspect ratio. Both of them are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz. Standard hard disk storage of 320GB are available with option to order other storage sizes.
The notebooks are available with 2GB or 4GB memory. One of the models is equipped with the Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT. There’s also a model that comes with the Toshiba Quad Core HD Processor SpursEngine™ that enables you to process those video hungry operation such as real-time video image recognition processing.
[ via Toshiba (in Japanese) ]
You might still remember that a couple of years ago Nintendo Wii’s launched was marred with a class-action lawsuit accusation of about a defective wrist strap that sent it’s Wiimote fly all around that broke good television sets.
Well, people are at it again. GameCyte is running a story about a new class-action lawsuit that has challenged Nintendo’s Wiimote straps once more — and the prior 2006 case may hold the key to how it will all play out. Filed on December 2nd by Colorado resident Molly Elvig, the new class-action suit mostly picks up right where the old left off: Wiimote Strap #3. Introduced mid-2007 by Nintendo in response to complaints that the small, sliding band designed to “lock” the wrist strap was insufficient for the task, Strap #3 is secured by a plastic locking clasp — but attorneys for Elvig allege that at this juncture, all three straps continue to fail.
[ Read the full story at GameCyte ]
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