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Games Industry Wire

March 14th, 2007

New Video Game Releases: Week of March 12th

Here is a complete list of all video games set to be released this week from GamerDeals:
Xbox 360
Call of Duty 3 Gold Edition
PlayStation 3
College Hoops 2K7
Nintendo Wii
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
PlayStation 2
God of War 2
PSP
Call of Duty 3: Roads to Victory
DS
Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach
Herbie Resuce Rally DS
Spectrobes
Tags: DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Video Games, wii, […]

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March 13th, 2007

10 Most Important Video Games Ever

As per the US Library of Congress’ request a group composing of Warren Spector, Steve Meretzky, Henry Lowood, Matteo Bittanti, and Joystiq’s Christopher Grant were to choose the 10 most important video games of all time, likely for protection by the Library of Congress much like influential films are protected. Here is the list of […]

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March 8th, 2007

Game Developers Conference Award Winners Announced

Here is a complete list of the nominees and winners for this year’s Game Developers Conference Awards via Joystiq:
New studio

Gastronaut, Small Arms
Naked Sky Ent, Roboblitz
Iron Lore, Titan Quest
Ready at Dawn, Daxter
Wadjet Eye, the Shiva

Writing award:

Bully
Dreamfall: The longest Journey
Sam & Max episode 1: Culture Shock
Oblivion
Twilight Princess

Game design

Bully
Okami
Oblivion
Viva Pinata
Wii Sports

Audio

Company of Heros
Defcon
Guitar Hero II

Tomb Raider Legend
Loco […]

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March 8th, 2007

PS2 Comes Out on Top

The numbers are in on Decemeber pre-holiday console sales and the runaway winner was the 6-year-old PlayStation 2. From Slate.com:
More than 1 million Xbox 360s were sold in December. Nintendo sold 600,000 Wiis that month. Sony brought up the rear, selling half a million of its $600 PlayStation 3 consoles. Still, Sony was the surprising […]

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March 8th, 2007

Sony Needs Help, Gives Technology To Developers

With the Wii outselling Sony’s PlayStatsion 3 2:1 Sony is getting desperate for change. The company announced yesterday that they would be releasing programming tools to licensed game developers entitled PlayStation Edge. The tools which can normally cost up to $20,000 should spur development on the system.
Simpler games are being released for the console that […]

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March 5th, 2007

New Video Games This Week

New games coming out this week are headlined by the release of the next game in the ghost recon series titled Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. This week it is being released on Xbox 360 and PC. Here is a list via Gamasutra of all the releases this week:
Xbox 360:- Def Jam: Icon- […]

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March 3rd, 2007

Nintendo Mum at GDC

Play-nintendo has the scoop that Nintendo will be required to be extremely quiet at the Game Developer’s Conference. It’s not that they don’t want to tell us about their upcoming projects but that they can’t. The reason is attributed to an upcoming stock deal and the order is likely in place to prevent the stock […]

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February 20th, 2007

Former Clover Employees Working on Resident Evil 5, Other Projects

Joystiq is reporting more news from the liquidation of Clover and the reformation of Seeds. Their VP of marketing addressed questions about Clover by saying that they were integrated into priorly existing portions of Capcom and continue to work on some of their major upcoming titles. Here is a quote from the interview when asked […]

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February 20th, 2007

Video Games Help Surgeons Perform Better

Since I already blogged about this topic at my other blog about medical news, Web Medical News, why rewrite the story. Here is is in its entirety:
In an interesting and quirky study, researchers have found that Surgeons who play video games are more skilled and dexterous at performing a specific type of surgery. The study […]

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February 15th, 2007

GameFly Top Titles

GameFly is a service much like Netflix which sends video games to your doorstep for a set monthly fee. The service rates the most requested games by system and can show a good perspective of whats hot and what isn’t:
XBox 360

Crackdown
NBA Street Homecourt
Lost Planet

Wii

Sonic and the Secret Rings
Mario Party 8
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves

PlayStation 3

Virtua Fighter […]

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