Adventure

05.07.10

Booyah’s popular location-based mobile entertainment app MyTown has ushered in more than two million to its rapidly expanding community of iPhone and iPod Touch users.  MyTown’s player stats and usage patterns have sparked interest from marketers as the population of the app grows more than 100,000 players each week and users spend more than an hour per day in the app, on average. 

03.02.10

Wazzamba, the first online virtual world to give away real-world travel prizes, announced its contests for the month of March. Wazzamba will be awarding four trips per week, including DreamTrips to Hawaii, the Danube River, San Francisco/Napa wine country and Cape Cod. Shorter GetAway Trips will also be awarded to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Boston, a Canyon Escape that includes Las Vegas, the California Coast, The Historic East, a tour of America’s National Parks and a tour of Elvis’ Haunts in the South.

02.15.10

Merscom and Paramount Digital Entertainment have collaborated to create Shutter Island, a hidden object, casual adventure game inspired by the upcoming Paramount Pictures’ feature film. Now available for Windows, the casual game is being launched in conjunction with the film’s theatrical release.

12.24.09

Despite the box office disappointments of most videogame adaptations for the big screen and the complete collapse of recent big budget attempts at turning Halo and BioShock into films, Hollywood remains infatuated with videogames and the millions of devoted gamers around the globe that they can tap into. But more often than not, Hollywood just doesn’t get it. And we’re not even talking about Uwe Boll and his bombs.

12.12.09

We are coming to you live from SpikeTV's Video Game Awards 2009 in Los Angeles with host Jo Garcia, Playboy's 2008 Cybergirl of the Year. She's hot and our coverage will be hot so stay tuned here as we beam to you live video reports from the VGAs as we interview the top developers and, of course, celebrities on the Red Carpet, Backstage and in the Green Room. It all starts at 8pm Eastern Time.

11.26.09

Although overall videogame sales have been down seven of the last eight months compared to the record-breaking 2008, games are still the driving force in entertainment, as well as electronics and toys today. The $550 million, five-day haul that Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 raked in – the largest entertainment launch in history -- shows the power of interactive entertainment even amidst the tough economic climate.

11.03.09

LOS ANGELES, California – Developer Naughty Dog offered the PlayStation 3 equivalent of an Indiana Jones meets Tomb Raider franchise with its first Uncharted game, which helped move a lot of hardware. The franchise introduced Nathan Drake, who’s not your typical hero. In fact, in the first adventure, he wants nothing to do with heroics. But that’s one of the appealing things about this character, and gamers fell for him, as well as the interactive story that played out like a good Indiana Jones movie.

Now, with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the developer has added cooperative gameplay and online multiplayer to a more robust adventure. Amy Hennig, creative director of the game, talks about what fans can expect from one of the most-anticipated sequels of this fall in this exclusive interview.

07.31.09

Because both games were designed by Will Wright, there have been a lot of comparisons between The Sims and Spore. While The Sims has sold over 100 million units worldwide (and counting) through its many spin-offs, which includes a movie and a TV show, Spore had a record debut and has unleashed multiple new titles across consoles.