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Playlogic appoints Pierre Thiercelin Based in The Netherlands, Playlogic is an independent games publisher for console, PC, mobile, and handheld devices. Today they announced that Pierre Thiercelin is joining them as the new International Sales Director. Before moving to Playlogic...

Gameloft Brings Gaming to the Blackberry The mobile games company Gameloft has joined the Blackberry ISV Alliance, which is the Blackberry developer's club. With development tools now completely at their disposal, Gameloft is in the process of porting and creating mobile games for all kinds of...

Lord of the Rings Online Available for Euro Pre-Order Lord of the Rings MMOG is available for pre-order in Europe today. Codemasters, LOTRO's European publisher, undoubtedly driven by the need to peck away at the World of Warcraft user base, is offering "founder" benefits to anyone who...

Firmware Update for the PS3 Sony's new firmware update adds connectivity and interface features. Sony announced that PS3 owners can download the Firmware version 1.6 beginning March 22. The big three changes are Enhanced Downloading, the addition of the Folding@home program and new text...

Line Rider Heads for Mobile Devices InXile, the company behind the popular Line Rider [http://www.official-linerider.com/play.html], announced today a deal to work with mobile publisher In-Fusio to develop and distribute a mobile version of the game. Initially expected for release in...

IGA Set to Deliver 1 Billion In-Game Ads per Week IGA Worldwide, Inc., the largest independent provider of in-game advertisements, is set to deliver 1 billion ad impressions per week by the end of the year. The IGA advertising network currently spans 50 different games on multiple platforms...

d'artiste Book Series Continues, Featuring Kevin Lanning Ballistic Publishing runs a series of books for the CG community called d'artiste. The latest book, Character Modeling 2, features work, techniques and explanations from Kevin Lanning, the artist behind character models in Gears of War...

European Wii Players to Get Ninja Turtles Like most schedules, the release dates for Virtual Console games on Nintendo's Wii are different in Europe than they are in the United States. This week, Nintendo announced three new games for the European market. Ice Climber is a climbing style...

ISM Poker Game Raises $24,000 for Charity Interactive Studio Management (ISM) Agency hosted a poker tournament at this year's GDC to benefit charity. The tournament started with 120 players all competing for the title, and raised a total of $24,000 for the Starlight Starbright foundation...

K2 Network Hires New VP of Global Marketing Jeff Lujan joins K2 Network, Inc. as the new Vice President of Global Marketing. Lujan comes from big marketing roles at game companies such as Namco Bandai and Midway. According to the press release, Lujan is now responsible for all of K2's global...

Wii Title to Use GameSpy Multiplayer Technology GameSpy announced today that it will provide "multiplayer technology" to publishers developing games for the Wii. Although the press release is intentionally vague, GameSpy has partnered with Nintendo on multiplayer implementation for several...

Activision hires new Senior Vice President Activision has announced the appointment of Joerg Trouvain as new Senior Vice President of European Publishing for the company. Trouvain is coming to Activision from Electronic Arts, where he was most recently Managing Director and Vice President of...

Take-Two Interactive announces numbers for first quarter 2007 Take-Two Interactive, the company besieged with legal fees over questionable stock option grants, managed still to post impressive numbers for the first quarter 2007. Net revenue this quarter was $277.3 million, up from last...

GDC rumor mill suggests Gears of War coming to PC According to TheInquirer.net [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=159576], Mark Rein has confirmed that a PC version of Gears of War will happen "eventually." This is similar to Rein's suggestion earlier in February...

First Two Issues of Xevicom Forever Available On Consoles Now The first two issues of Xevicom Forever, a free graphic novel from Darren Reid, have been released today on the Wii, PS3, PSP, and PC. The Wii and the PS3 will feature "live" versions of the novel that will require an internet...