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In one of the shortest speeches I've seen delivered at a major gaming event, EA CEO John Riccitiello just delivered a brisk under-15-minute presentation that points to sequels being EA's focus of 2009.EA CEO John Riccitiello's quick DICE speech rapidly covered the following: how game companies should deal with the ...

EA CEO John Riccitiello is speaking at DICE and is talking about how good sequels can be. More on that later, but something new he just mentioned: American McGee's "Alice" series will have a new installment from EA this year. He said more details are forthcoming later. Riccitiello added that ...

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. and MTV Games are making a generous minimum $50,000 gift to Starlight Children's Foundation to bring the power of music to children facing chronic and life-threatening illnesses. The partnership will allow Harmonix, the world's premiere music video game development company and creators of Rock Band, and ...

With the 2009 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit in full swing, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University announced the establishment of the "Academy Scholar" program. The "Academy Scholar" is designed to build a force of new talent of the best ...

GOG.com is adding another point-and-click adventure to its ever-growing catalogue of Good Old Games. This time it's Runaway: A Road Adventure from French publisher and distributor, Focus Home Interactive. And in case you somehow forgot, all the games at GOG.com are DRM-free and fully compatible with Windows XP and Vista. Runaway: ...

Paradox Interactive released new screenshots and videos for Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, the long anticipated PC Fantasy Strategy game developed by 1C:Ino-Co.The world of Majesty 2 is full of charm and a unique sense of humor, one where the player only has indirect control of the characters and ...

Ronimo Games, best known as the development team behind the original version of De Blob, announced new details surrounding its debut title for WiiWare, Swords & Soldiers. New features such as historical inaccuracy, uncompromising style, some random stuff, and Morefun have been added to the game."WiiWare is the perfect platform ...

Single-Player demo gives first taste of the campaign in the upcoming World War II Real-time Strategy Game. 1C Company, 505 Games and Aspyr Media announced that a single-player demo for the World War II strategy title Men of War is now available for download from www.menofwargame.com. It gives a first ...

cdv USA is pleased to announce that they have launched a new sweepstakes today... and it's sure to make the winner the envy of all their PC gaming friends! In cooperation with top PC builder GameRigs, cdv USA will be giving away a fantastic Sacred 2-themed custom PC in their ...

Monte Cristo Games released a new set of screenshots from their upcoming next-generation city-builder, CITIES XL. These new screens focus on key in-game elements such as sports stadiums, farms and downtown areas, all of which are important aspects of the gameplay within CITIES XL as they help bolster the economies ...