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08.24.10
COLOGNE -- Trion Worlds showed that its one of the major players in the massively-multiplayer online space at GamesCom 2010 with its huge booth, which was packed with gamers. The game publisher featured playable versions of its first two MMO games, the role-playing game Rift: Planes of Telara and the real-time strategy game End of Nations. Trion Worlds CEO and founder Lars Butler talks about these two games and what his game company is infusing new to the MMO space in this exclusive video interview.
08.23.10
LOS ANGELES -- THQ Inc. announced the full launch of the company’s new WWE videogames portal at wwe.thq.com, as well as the official community website for WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 at community.smackdownvsraw.com.  The two sites will feature the latest WWE videogame content, official forums, an exclusive blog written by WWE Superstar The Miz, a Create-a-Superstar application and much more.  The new WWE videogames portal and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 community site will be the ultimate online destinations leading up to and beyond launch.
08.14.10

Michael Cera played Nintendo games on the set of the new Scott Pilgrim vs. the World film. Ubisoft has launched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 with the Xbox Live version for Xbox 360 coming soon. Developed in partnership with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, the game is based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s award-winning graphic novel series and the new Universal Pictures film directed by genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright. Cera talks about his retro gaming in this exclusive interview.

08.14.10

SAN DIEGO – (Reuters) Have video games finally gone mainstream? After decades of Hollywood adaptations of hit game franchises like Eidos’ “Tomb Raider,” Capcom’s “Resident Evil” and Konami’s “Silent Hill,” Hollywood has created the first film that speaks to the video game generation.

08.10.10

Ubisoft launches Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3. Developed in partnership with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, the game is based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s award-winning graphic novel series and the upcoming Universal Pictures film directed by genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright. The cast talks about the new game in this exclusive interview.

08.05.10

SAN DIEGO -- Marv Wolfman is old enough to have been playing games from their inception. After spending a career writing stories for popular DC Comics characters, Wolfman has been putting his gaming expertise to good use as the writer behind Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online. Of course, he still writes comics, including the God of War comic based on Sony’s popular game franchise. Wolfman talks about his love of games and his latest project in this exclusive interview.

08.03.10

Hot on the heels of their highly anticipated reunion, GRAMMY award-winning rockers Soundgarden and Activision Publishing Inc.’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will come together this September in a groundbreaking collaboration that marks the first time a new music album will be simultaneously released and bundled with a videogame.  All one million North American Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock launch units will contain Telephantasm, a 12-song career-spanning album, and will be exclusively available with the game for one week, prior to the album’s retail release.  

08.03.10

Blizzard Entertainment announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty achieved a day-one sales milestone of more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, making it the bestselling PC game of 2010 within its first 24 hours of availability. The game went on to sell a total of more than 1.5 million copies in its first 48 hours, setting the record for fastest-selling strategy game of all time.

08.01.10

The cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World spent the weekend in San Diego for Comic Con 2010. In addition to starring in the new Universal Pictures film, they also appear in the retro PlayStation 3 downloadable game from Ubisoft. Check out this exclusive walk-through of the new game, which is out now.

07.31.10

With more than 130 million registered users, Bigpoint is hardly a newcomer to the games industry, but they may be new to you. Bigpoint is a developer, online games publisher and content provider for media groups including USA Network, MTV and AOL. CEO Heiko Hubertz, who recently established a U.S. office in San Francisco, talks about the new hub for development and U.S. operations and the role Hollywood licensed games like Battlestar Galactica Online and The Mummy will play moving forward in this exclusive interview.

07.30.10

The man who introduced computer-generated technology to Hollywood with TRON has spent 28 years bringing TRON Legacy to the big screen. As executive producer of the new film, he was on hand at ComiTRON to discuss the journey and explain why this movie couldn’t be made even three years ago. He talks about the new film in this exclusive interview inside Comic Con’s Flynn’s Arcade in San Diego.

07.27.10

The legendary battle between the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS rages on as Activision has released the new Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Based on Hasbro’s iconic TRANSFORMERS brand, the downloadable content pack will include five distinct playable TRANSFORMERS characters and four all-new maps for online multiplayer game modes. Activision talked about the new game at Comic Con 2010.

07.26.10

Capcom and Namco Bandai (NBGI) are developing two brand new fighting games that will feature crossover characters from each companies most popular fighting franchises, Street Fighter and TEKKEN. This collaboration is one fighting games fans have been dreaming of. The games will be released next year.

07.23.10

SAN DIEGO, California – (REUTERS) Back in 1982, first-time director Steven Lisberger brought mainstream audiences into the world of videogames using computer-generated imagery. While “TRON” failed to initially make a splash during a summer dominated by Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.,” the pioneering film paved the way for today’s CGI blockbusters.