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Activision Acquires Vicarious Visions

Posted on January 20, 2005 by Ron

Activision Inc., the nation’s second-largest video game publisher, said Thursday it acquired game developer Vicarious Visions, the studio developing the Nintendo DS title, Spider-Man 2. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. Activision said Vicarious Visions has developed five games that have sold … Continue reading →

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CES 2005

Posted on January 18, 2005 by Ron

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is now over, and aside from a lot of interest in hand-held devices (MP3 players, phones, etc.) there’s not a lot new in the graphics area. NVIDIA showed its mobile chipsets … Continue reading →

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Infinium to Demo at CES, teams up with NVIDIA and Microsoft

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Ron

Infinium will supposedly be showing the Phantom Game Service at both the Emerging Technology and New Form Factor areas of NVIDIA’s booth, South Hall #35311, and in the Microsoft Corp. booth in the Central Hall, #7145. Details about the Phantom … Continue reading →

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Think you want to work in the game industry? Think again…

Posted on January 2, 2005 by Ron

It’s not just the game industry that does this, but the game industry in particular is rife with under-30 “managers” and “producers” who just can’t understand why employees don’t do what they are told or who can’t keep to a … Continue reading →

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Ubisoft: No talks under way with Electronic Arts

Posted on December 30, 2004 by Ron

French video games company Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s board late Wednesday said no negotiations are currently held‘ with U.S. competitor Electronic Arts Inc., which last week acquired a 19.9 percent stake in the company. Ubisoft reiterated that it considers Electronic Arts’ … Continue reading →

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Infinium needs MONEY!

Posted on November 25, 2004 by Ron

In its latest filing with the US S.E.C. Infinium says it’ll have to spend $US 22.2M over the next 12 months in order to execute its “current business strategy”. Basically it says it’ll need $US 11.5M to launch the Phantom … Continue reading →

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Halo 2 – record $US 125 million in first day of sales

Posted on November 12, 2004 by Ron

Wednesday Microsoft reported sales of 2.38 million units for the game in the 24 hours since it went on sale in the United States and Canada at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. With the standard version of the game priced at $US … Continue reading →

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David Eberly Rejoins NDL

Posted on October 29, 2004 by Ron

NDL, the company that makes the Gamebryo middleware to help speed game development, announced that David Eberly has rejoined the company. Eberly left in 2000 to serve as the president of Magic Software, but has now rejoined the company to … Continue reading →

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