The newsies over at WarCry broke the news an hour ago when one of the staff noticed the change on the Staff page. Jim Crowley, the Producer for Asheron's Call, is now listed as President and CEO of the Massachusetts-based game developer.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board has joined with the Idaho Attorney General's Office to launch a new campaign aimed at clarifying videogame ratings to parents.
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Midway Games has revised its financial estimates for the company's third quarter and 2007 fiscal year in the wake of delays to the PlayStation 3 versions of Unreal Tournament 3, Stranglehold and BlackSite: Area 51.
In honor of the most awe-inspiring media spectacle of all time, the game for October is Halo: Combat Evolved, the game about a cyborg with a hologram in his head that started it all back in 2001. Was the story really inspiring enough to justify two sequels? Does it make any sense at all that this game and its spawn have sold millions of copies and defined "shooter" for the last two console generations? You tell me.
The Venezuela Solidarity Network has issued a press release celebrating the delay of Pandemic Studios' upcoming action title Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, which it claims will foster increased hostility toward Venezuela by the U.S.
Nintendo has announced the Wii Remote Jacket designed to give extra grip and durability to its motion-sensing controllers, and they're giving them away free.
I'm sure Bungie envisioned player galleries filled not with carefully framed works of in-game art, but with documentation of especially impressive, humiliating or humorous kills. Still, I'm willing to bet they also wanted to let players discover and appreciate what they might otherwise miss. It's all too easy or overlook a game's creative and artistic details, especially in a frenetic action setting where the primary goal is to kill or be killed.Adam LaMosca takes a look at Halo 3's Theater feature.