Mobile

09.03.10
BURBANK – Bob Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, drove over to the Disney/Pixar World of Cars Online launch event at the Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank. Iger took some time to test drive the newest online videogame from Disney Online Studios. He then took a pit stop to discuss the new game, as well as the larger role videogames now play within Disney, in this exclusive video interview.  
09.03.10
Napa Valley – Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari who brought Pong to the world, was a keynote speaker at the Ayzenberg A-List Summit recently, where he discussed the past, present and future of videogames. Afterward, he sat down for an exclusive interview inside a castle that was built by a very successful local vineyard. Bushnell talks about his return to Atari and what he believes the future of the videogame rests on in this exclusive video interview.
09.02.10
With the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings set to kick-off the 2011 NFL Season, EA Sports has used Madden NFL 11 to get an early look. After getting a taste of the NFL Playoffs during the 2009 season, the Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers are expected to build on last year’s performance by securing their conference’s best record in 2010 according to the official Madden NFL 11 regular season simulation. With less than a week before the season kicks off, EA SPORTS predicted divisional winners, league leaders and individual award winners for the 2010 NFL season.
09.01.10

Epic Games has released its Epic Citadel App, which is now available from the Apple App Store. The app showcases the technical capabilities of Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine 3 on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. In Epic Citadel, players navigate a fictional castle realm using simple controls and the innovative Multi-Touch user interface. Epic Citadel also features stunning visuals and special effects, with an environment inspired by Project Sword, Epic’s newest game.

 

08.30.10

BlackBerry owners who feel left out of the smartphone party recently dominated by iPhone and Android can now rejoice, your phone is here. The Blackberry Torch, also known as the Bold 9800, represents Research In Motion’s (RIM) latest attempt to attract more consumer users and is the first RIM phone to feature their latest Blackberry OS 6, with a revamped user interface and a ton of new features.

08.26.10

Sprint’s EVO 4G Android smartphone by HTC is the first Android smartphone from a major carrier to get the long awaited version 2.2 (Froyo) of the Android mobile OS from Google. Among the main features of the new version is support for the Adobe Flash 10.1 mobile player giving the EVO 4G the ability to browse websites with Flash videos, animations and/or graphics. Adobe, having been shunned by Steve Jobs and Apple, has made a great effort to get cozy with Google and its Android OS using it as its launch platform for its Flash mobile initiatives.

08.25.10

 For the past 75 years, people of all ages from around the world have collected $200 when passing “GO!”, anxiously waited to get out of “jail”, and secretly wished that all of the money in the MONOPOLY game could be real. To celebrate this monumental milestone of a cultural icon, Hasbro is celebrating with a series of MONOPOLY-themed events around the world and online on August 25, 2010.

08.24.10
NEW YORK CITY – Verizon Wireless has launched a major redesign of the Verizon Games service portal and desktop application in conjunction with games-on-demand partner Exent. The new app delivers a more intuitive and interactive experience for customers exploring the world's largest PC games-on-demand subscription service, with more than 1,500 game choices. Drawing on insights and feedback from its network of users and on-demand game service providers, Exent designed an animated and easy-to-use game-navigation service.  Unlike other game services, the new Verizon Games app, built with GameTanium, creates a more engaging, game-like environment designed to appeal to a mass market audience.
08.16.10
Game Developers Conference Europe 2010 (GDC Europe) has opened its doors at the Cologne Congress Center East in Cologne, Germany.  Produced by UBM TechWeb Game Network, organizers of the leading Game Developers Conference® series, GDC Europe is the largest professionals-only game event in Europe, and has increased in scope compared to its inaugural debut event in 2009, encompassing a robust selection of keynotes, lectures, panels, and sessions.  GDC Europe returns to Cologne, Germany on August 16-18, 2010 for three days of learning, networking, and inspiration.  For more information on GDC Europe visit: www.gdceurope.com.
08.16.10
300 American colleges, universities, art and trade schools will offer degrees in videogame design, development, programming and art during the 2010-11 academic year, according to new research from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). The degrees offered at these institutions represent an almost 20 percent increase over 2009-10.  The head of The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University talks about the role education plays in game development in this exclusive video interview.  
08.15.10

With sales of console and handheld systems having stalled, the attention of the video game industry has turned to the fast-growing cell phone video game market, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. With their ubiquity and ownership by a large segment of an electronics-enamored public, mobile phones equipped to play games and other forms of electronic entertainment vastly outnumber their rival dedicated gaming platforms.

08.10.10

EA Mobile is bringing the fan-favorite Madden NFL videogame franchise out on the latest digital devices and platforms reaching new consumers.  For the first time, consumers can now play Madden NFL 11 on iPad. Madden NFL 11 for iPad, iPod touch and feature phone versions are launching alongside the franchise console offerings today. A version for Android phones will be available later in the year. Gerald McCoy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers talks about the latest Madden game 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 Sprint 3G/4G USB 250U mobile broadband modem, which is identical to it CLEAR Internet + cousin, is Sprint’s latest mobile broadband modem offering. Made by Sierra Wireless, the modem takes advantage of Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network for speeds up to ten times faster than 3G, Sprint claims. That’s assuming you are in an area with 4G service, which currently includes over 60 cities such as Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Portland, Kansas City, Seattle, Charlotte, etc. However, if you are in New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco, you are out of luck, at least when it comes to 4G service, though you will still get 3G EVDO Rev A. data service in any location that 4G service isn’t available. This should change soon as Sprint says that these cities along with many others will be added by the end of 2010.