Archive - February 2006

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Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 1 2006
Last year was an eventful year as far as gaming is concerned and events started really heating up towards the end with the launch of MS's next-gen console - the Xbox 360 and there were some really big titles released for platforms across the board - be...
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 1 2006
Now don't get alarmed by the title of this post. Actually it is about a game that is being developed right now based on the animation movie Flushed Away. The story isr riding on the success of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, animators...
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 1 2006
The long-running war between the Montreal studios of EA and Ubisoft over non-compete clauses for game development employees quitting Ubisoft has escalated following EA hiring a former Ubisoft employee to work as its Montreal studio. The name of the...
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 1 2006
Techtree India reports that MGM Interactive and Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment have formally announced that they reached an agreement to develop Stargate Worlds. This would be an MMORPG that will be based on the popular sci-fi TV series - Stargate...
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 1 2006
Dissecta, the Melbourne-based games event organizer, has announced the first of its 2006 events. It says that it will focus entirely on the introduction of next-generation console platforms. The event itself is dubbed as 'The Year of Next Gen'. It will..
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 2 2006
final fantasy x   yuna
So if you didn't find out yet, it's actually Yuna and Rikku from Final Fantasy X that are painted on the Atlanta Thrashers' Kari Lehtonen's goalie mask. Now is that another reason to love hockey? Thanks Wolfkeeper
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 2 2006
The world's largest game publisher has conformed that it's laying off 5% of it's workforce that amounts to 325 to 350 employees. It comes a day before EA was to announce its Q3 earnings. However, yesterday Corporate Communications Manager EA Trudy...
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 2 2006
Following the recent news Gizmondo Europe has filed for bankruptcy in Britain, an updated SEC filing from the company has revealed more information on a bridging loan and the fate of other subsidiaries. Reason for the Jan 31 filing? Well, it is...
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 2 2006
wow
Deep Silver has released new screenshots of War on Terror. It is the upcoming real-time strategy game from Hungarian developer Digital Reality - WarFront, Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats. Anyway, it's already announced that the game is set for launch in.
Jayanta Bhattacharya | Feb 2 2006
halo 2
Rumour mills are spinning again with speculations gaining momentum on whether Bungie is bringing Halo 2 to PC. Bungie is specifically looking for the following: a) An audio programmer, b) Games programmer, c) Network programmer, and d) Graphics...