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EA and Crytek Announce Development of Crysis; Award-winning Studio to Create Original Shooter Franchise for PC
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company and award-winning developer Crytek, today announced they will bring Crysis, an exciting new first person shooter, to gamers worldwide. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far CryTM, Crysis will be an original first person...
Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., PC
Research articles 2006-01-30
War game 'evokes the atrocity of terrorism'
A BLOCKBUSTER video game has caused a classifications storm by putting players in the shoes of terrorists. Footage from the upcoming game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been leaked online, showing a scene where the player shoots civilians in an airport. The realistic graphics show a first-person view...
Tags: game, scene, player
News items 2009-10-28
Eager fans greet "Call of Duty" game launch
By Gabriel Madway and Robert MacMillan SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc's hugely anticipated "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" video game went on sale early Tuesday morning, welcomed by eager fans who lined up hours in advance of the release. The first-person shooter game is set to...
Tags: game, Best Buy Co. Inc., Activision Inc., Grand Theft Auto, GameStop Corp.
News items 2009-11-10
Which came first, video game addiction or ADD?
A new study finds that frequent video gamers have a harder time focusing than those who play less often.(Credit: Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)A new study out of Iowa State University finds that people who play video games for 40-plus hours a week have a harder time focusing on certain tasks than...
Tags: hour, Video, game, Video Game
News items 2009-10-25
'Gears Of War' Creator On Gaming's Future
A chainsaw revs. The heavily armored Marcus Fenix lumbers forward, ripping through a Locust soldier as if he were shredding turkey with an electric carving knife. The combination assault rifle and mechanized saw blade, known as a Lancer, is one of the most recognizable components of "Gears of War," the...
News items 2009-08-07
'Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare' Launch Attracts Lines
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc's hugely anticipated "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" videogame went on sale early Tuesday morning, welcomed by eager fans who lined up hours in advance of the release. The first-person shooter game is set to be one of the biggest and fastest-selling...
Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., game, title, Activision Inc., GameStop Corp.
News items 2009-11-11
On Integrating First Person Shooter Games and Ubiquitous Environments
Simulations of real time tactical situations, embodied by first person shooter games, are particularly amenable applications for integration within a ubiquitous computing environment. These games are significantly different from once applications yet can still strongly benefit from the advantages of ubiquitous computing. It discusses the investigation of such integration. The...
Tags: Environment, Ubiquitous Computing, Games, Personal Technology
White papers 2001-09-25
MGM Interactive and Eurocom sign pact to create H.O.S.T., a multiplayer arcade-style shooter for PC and Sony PlayStation Platforms; MGM plans worldwide distribution for fourth quarter 1996
LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--April 16, 1996--Multimedia publisher MGM Interactive has signed a deal with Eurocom Developments Ltd., Derbyshire, England, for the development of H.O.S.T., a multiplayer action shooter for Windows 95 PCs and Sony PlayStation game consoles.
Tags: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, PC, Sony Corp., Sony Playstation
Research articles 1996-04-16
Time Crisis 3.(latest video game from Namco America Inc.)(Brief Article)
Shooter, Rated T, $39.99 Available Oct. 22 Namco Gameplay: Although the market might be dominated by such first-person shooters as Counter-Strike, Red Faction and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the Time Crisis series takes a more arcade-savvy Shooter,...
Tags: game, video, video game
Research articles 2003-09-29
Revolution Returns to Mars in THQ's Groundbreaking Open World Shooter Red Faction®: Guerrilla™
Third-Person Action-Shooter Re-Defines Destruction and Open-World Game-Play
Tags: THQ Inc.
Research articles 2008-02-20
2K Announces Prey Has Gone Gold; Highly Anticipated First-Person Shooter Coming to Xbox 360 and PC
NEW YORK -- 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and 3D Realms today announced the first-person shooter Prey has gone to gold master and will be available in North America on July 11th and in Europe on July 14th. Developed by Human Head Studios under...
Tags: Human Head Studios Inc.
Research articles 2006-06-28
"Call of Duty" game sells $550 million in five days
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc said its video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" scored record sales of $550 million in its first five days, but the company is still concerned about weak consumer spending. The game, a "first-person-shooter" that lets gamers portray elite soldiers hunting down...
Tags: sales, Video, game, Video Game, Activision Inc.
News items 2009-11-18
Atari Develops Shadow Ops: Red Mercury for AMD 64-Bit Processors; Cinematic Shooter to Leverage AMD's Advanced 64-bit Architecture for Improved Game Performance, Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, More
LOS ANGELES -- Atari is working closely with AMD to develop Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, the cinematic interactive blockbuster that first appeared on the XboxTM video game system from Microsoft in June, for personal computer using AMD's advanced AMD AthlonTM 64 series of simultaneous 32- and 64-bit processors. The 64-bit...
Tags: 64-bit, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., artificial intelligence, game, graphics, processor
Research articles 2004-09-17
Portal and Bioshock dominate Game Developers Choice Awards
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Portal and Bioshock dominated the eighth annual Game Developers Choice Awards as video gamemakers heaped laurels on the action puzzle and morality-probing shooter titles. Portal was voted the best video game, and took home awards for innovation and design excellence at the awards late Wednesday....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, INTERNET, Portals
Research articles 2008-02-21
EA Ships Goldeneye: Rogue Agent; Villains Rule in Latest Edition in James Bond Video Game Series
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced the release of the latest highly anticipated video game in the James BondTM series, GoldenEye: Rogue AgentTM. Going where no previous Bond game has dared tread, this first-person shooter gives players the chance to explore the dark side of the Bond...
Tags: Electronic Arts Inc.
Research articles 2004-11-22
Metropolis Software to Leverage Physics Acceleration of AGEIA PhysX Processor in INFERNAL; Metropolis to Advance Game Intensity by Using the AGEIA PhysX Platform
MOUNTAIN VIEW & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- AGEIATM Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for games, today announced at the Game Developers Conference that Poland-based Metropolis Software is supporting the AGEIA PhysXTM processor in its upcoming fantasy shooter INFERNAL. The third-person action game will be published by Playlogic, and...
Tags: game, processor
Research articles 2006-03-22
Ubisoft and Free Radical Launch New Video Game Franchise: HAZE™; FPS Title from Shooter Hit-Makers to Debut at E3 2006
LOS ANGELES -- Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced the development of HAZETM, an innovative FPS game based on new intellectual property.
Tags: game, UbiSoft Entertainment, video game
Research articles 2006-05-10
Electronic Arts: Battlefield Heroes Business Model Is Brilliant
Bruce Everiss submits: /strong Battlefield Heroes is a cartoon action shooter game for the PC. Exactly the sort of game where you would expect to see well over 90% piracy. Which is the reason publishers have largely given up on them. So Electronics Arts ERTS have beaten the...
Tags: Gadgets, Bruce Everiss, Electronic Arts Inc.
External links 2009-08-21
Comedic Script and New Game Engine Mark Release of Kuma Reality Games' DinoHunters; First Episode in Advergaming Series is Free to Consumers, Courtesy of Schick Sponsorship
NEW YORK -- Kuma Reality Games, the leaders in episodic, television-like video games, introduces the release of its first episode of DinoHunters, a free, online first-person shooter propelled by comical in-game scripting and a massive upgrade in game technology. With a script penned by former Maxim Magazine editor-in-chief Keith...
Tags: Schick Corp.
Research articles 2006-04-24
Atari Ships ``Shadow Ops: Red Mercury'' For PC; Hollywood Blockbuster-Style First-Person Action Game Now Available at Retail Stores Worldwide
LOS ANGELES -- Atari has shipped "Shadow Ops: Red Mercury," a cinematic military first-person shooter, to retail stores this week for personal computer on DVD. "Shadow Ops: Red Mercury" offers players a gripping movie-style gaming experience through its unprecedented Hollywood production values, intense action and ground-breaking sound and visual effects....
Tags: game, PC
Research articles 2004-09-23
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