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- Technology News: New tracking stock incorporates pay, DirecTV -- John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. reported lively subscriber growth at Starz and said a tracking stock called Liberty Entertainment will launch next week, folding in the pay TV biz and Liberty's recently acquired stake in DirecTV. |
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- Technology News: Seven accuse company of bungling bid -- Yahoo Inc. is facing seven shareholder lawsuits alleging the slumping Internet pioneer bungled its response to Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. |
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- Technology News: Torture scene too much for site to stomach -- A provocative online marketing campaign for Universal's cyber crime thriller "Untraceable," which offers bloodthirsty online voyeurs a sneak peak of a gruesome torture scene from the pic, has been pulled by social networking site Facebook. |
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- Technology News: Shambroom oversaw development since 2005 -- Jonathan Shambroom has been tapped senior VP and general manager of Crackle.com, the Sony Pictures Television-owned entertainment site formerly known as Grouper. |
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- Technology News: Plans unveiled for 'Guitar Hero'-esque game -- Mouse House's videogame unit on Tuesday unveiled plans for "Ultimate Band," a new music simulation it plans to launch in the fall that will compete with "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." |
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- Technology News: NBC U chief addresses Harvard Business School -- NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker swung by Harvard Business School on Wednesday and, in an unusually unguarded on-stage interview, offered some predictions for the media company's future, an update on its Hulu joint venture, and some insight into recent deals with companies like Apple. |
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- Technology News: Company to pay $1.35 billion -- The European Commission has fined Microsoft a record E899 million ($1.35 billion) for not complying with a 2004 antitrust ruling. The fine is the biggest ever against a single company. |
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- Technology News: Channel will feature past clips and other videos -- Frosh syndie skein "TMZ" has partnered with MySpace to launch a dedicated vid channel on the social networking giant's MySpaceTV platform. |
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- Technology News: Sen. Mark Pryor calls process 'fouled up' -- A top lawmaker has called the Federal Communications Commission's auction of wireless spectrum "a disaster," saying the agency had "fouled up" the process in a way that has favored two telco giants. |
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- Technology News: New sector to develop low cost, "indie" games -- The world's biggest videogame publisher is placing some small bets on new ideas. |
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- Technology News: First Web titles to be based on TV gameshows -- Endemol USA is getting into the vidgame biz. |
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- Technology News: 'House' stars inform public on switch -- Stars of PBS' "This Old House" will soon be informing the pubcaster's viewers about the future of their old televisions. |
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- Technology News: Move to block content prompts crash -- Pakistan?s attempts to block users in the country from accessing anti-Islamic content on YouTube may have been behind a near-global outage on the vidclip site Sunday. |
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- Technology News: Usage rises by 42% -- The number of users accessing Disney?s U.K. website has surged dramatically since the company revamped the site in December. |
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- Technology News: Publisher preparing 'Grand Theft Auto IV' -- Electronic Arts is going public with a $2 billion offer for Take-Two Interactive that the "Grand Theft Auto" publisher's board has rejected. |
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- Black Bean Games is pleased to announce the exclusive release of the first trailer for SBK08, the official game of the HANNspree Superbike World Championship, developed by Milestone. As well as featuring the official teams, riders and tracks of the current WSBK Championship, SBK08 has six diffic... |
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- If 2006 was the year of the Xbox 360 and 2007 was the year of the Wii, 2008 is shaping up to be PlayStation 3's turn in the spotlight, as it stokes demand in the $19 billion computer gaming industry with some hotly awaited game titles. Nintendo's Wii outsold Sony's more expensive PS3 console 4-to... |
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- Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) on Tuesday announced plans to release its DualShock 3 wireless controller for its PlayStation 3 video game console in April. The new controller will cost $54.95. Since the PlayStation 3 has shipped, the system has used what Sony calls a "Sixaxis" game ... |
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- Guild Wars, the first major MMO to adopt a business model not based on monthly subscription fees, has topped five million total units sold in North America, Europe and Asia. This milestone comes almost three years after the title's original launch, and during a period in which developer ArenaNet ... |
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- The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme in which you have to build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, you can recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host. You can choose units from a large pool of special... |
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- Video game giant Electronic Arts on Sunday said it had made an unsolicited $1.9 billion offer for "Grand Theft Auto" publisher Take-Two Interactive Software, escalating its battle with Activision for the title of biggest video game maker. Electronic Arts said it had pursued the deal privately sin... |
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- Developed by Sector3 Games, StuntMANIA!pro is a fast paced 3D car stunt driving game where you get to perform the most amazing tricks and stunts in some really cool environments. [img]images/news/icons/softwar gif[/img] Download: [url=http://www. |
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- Microsoft has promised that Gears of War 2 will launch for the Xbox 360 this November. Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer at Epic Games, announced that the saga of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad will continue on the Xbox 360 this autumn with the highly anticipated sequel to the 4.5 million-selling blo... |
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- The 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards were announced this evening at GDC in San Francisco, with Valve's Portal taking the highest honour. Portal also received awards for Best Game Design and Innovation. 2K's Bioshock, nominated in five categories, won awards for Best Audio, Best Visual ... |
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- Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will make Xbox 360 video games developed by players available for download through the console's online service. The new service will double the size of the Xbox 360 game library, to 1,000 games within a year of its launch, scheduled for this holiday season, the... |
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- Games maker Nintendo Co Ltd on Wednesday said it will launch a new physical fitness game product called Wii Fit for U.S. shipping in May. The Wii Fit, which will debut on May 19, will come with a weight-and-motion sensing device called the Wii Balance Board, the company said in a statement. ... |
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- Microsoft said it's too early to say whether it will continue to support the high-definition HD DVD format on its Xbox 360 video game console, despite the fact that the format is all but dead. "We will wait until we hear from Toshiba before announcing any specific plans around the Xbox 360 HD DV... |
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- Spiderweb Software has released a playable demo of Avernum 5, allowing you to try out the Windows version of the latest game in the Avernum series. Avernum 5 is set in the world of Avernum, an enormous series of caves far under the surface of the world. Players will explore this enormous, alien envi... |
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- Hamburg-based dtp entertainment AG, one of the leading German game publishers, and the Hamburg development studio 49Games today announce the new sports game Summer Athletics. Players can expect an abundance of disciplines from a variety of summer sports in this title. Summer Athletics will appear su... |
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- Two years ago, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry came home and found his youngest son, Roman, now 16, playing Guitar Hero with friends. "I played it a little bit and said, 'This is fantastic. Does it have any Aerosmith songs on it?' " Perry says. "The first game didn't, and I was hugely (upset). |
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- AP - Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers committed no crime. |
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- Vanavond is de laatste show van Autumn met frontwoman Nienke De Jong. De band is van plan bij dit optreden beeld- en geluidsopnames te maken, zodat er ..... |
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- Audrey Horne is alweer een paar jaar actief en heeft zojuist in Europa haar tweede album, Le Fol, uitgebracht. Dit album heeft een score van 92 punten ..... |
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- Het zit Pain, de andere band van Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren, niet mee. De band is momenteel op tour als voorprogramma van Nightwish. Vorige wee ..... |
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- De mannen van Scar Symmetry zijn klaar met hun nieuwe plaat. Het derde album van deze Zweden heet Holographic Universe, en is ook al compleet gemixt e ..... |
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- Gitaarvirtuoos Yngwie Malmsteen werkt aan een nieuwe cd. In juli moet het album uitkomen, maar het is wel met een nieuwe zanger. Na ruim zes jaar heef ..... |
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- Op zaterdag 23 augustus wordt in 013 voor de tweede maal het Symforce festival gehouden. In totaal zullen er die dag een stuk of tien bands optreden i ..... |
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- Emperor-frontman Ihsahn komt dit voorjaar met zijn tweede soloalbum. De opvolger voor het twee jaar geleden verschenen The Adversary heet angL, en Ihs ..... |
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- De namen circuleerden al enige tijd in het geruchtencircuit, maar afgelopen weekend is de site van Wâldrock online gekomen en zijn de eerste bands off ..... |
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- Vandaag gaat de voorverkoop van Graspop Metal Meeting van start, en ook zijn er weer wat nieuwe bands aan de lijst van bevestigden acts toegevoegd. Ic ..... |
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- Kingdom Of Sorrow is het opmerkelijke project van Kirk Windstein (Crowbar/Down) en de altijd drukke Hatebreed-frontman Jamey Jasta. De twee heren kenn ..... |
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- A case in point - rather cases in point on the absurdity of Mr.Obama's candidacy. |
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- die Spiegelgesetz-Methode® von Christa Kössner/Ausbildung/Zertifizier |
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