Tagged: Video Games & News
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Nintendo exerts its right to profit from user-generated videos on YouTube News
17.05.2013 Videos of gameplay on Nintendo video games uploaded by YouTube users will, in some cases, be accompanied by advertising that generates revenue for Nintendo only, with nothing... -
Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers coders the opportunity of a lifetime News
16.05.2013 Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon which appears in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide in 70 countries and 25 languages, wants someone to build him a mobile video...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Development, Design, Apps -
Confirmed: Gran Turismo 6 coming to PlayStation 3 in time for Christmas News
16.05.2013 It’s official: the latest instalment from PlayStation’s best-selling franchise will arrive in time for the holiday season later this year.Categories: Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Google Image Search gets an Atari Breakout Easter egg News
14.05.2013 Classic Atari arcade game Breakout, which turned 37 years old in April, is now playable via Google Image Search thanks to a recently discovered Easter egg.Tags: Video Games, Google -
Gran Turismo may celebrate its 15th anniversary with a reveal of GT6 (video) News
09.05.2013 PlayStation’s biggest-selling video-game series Gran Turismo plans to celebrate 15 years of detailed racing simulation at the world-famous Silverstone Circuit on 15 May, and a...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
It’s a cat fight! Makers of Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat sue Warner Bros, 5th Cell Media News
03.05.2013 The makers of two of the biggest cat-based memes of all time – Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat – are taking on the might of Warner Bros and video-game maker 5th Cell Media in a...Categories: Multimedia, Marketing, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox console to be revealed on 21 May News
08.04.2013 Microsoft is now expected to unveil its next-generation console on 21 May, just ahead of the influential E3 games conference in June. The software giant had originally planned... -
Tech tycoon delivers delight to digital natives News
26.03.2013 In 2003, two Trinity College Dublin graduates, Dylan Collins and Sean Blanchfield, did a very unfashionable thing at the time. They started a technology company in the... -
Beyond: Two Souls screening as Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival News
22.03.2013 Quantic Dream has taken its unique brand of interactive cinematic video games to the next level in having its next release chosen as an Official Selection for the Tribeca Film...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Fans while away GTA V delay by sharing #GrandTheftAutoMemories on Twitter News
20.03.2013 Seeing as the next instalment of the Grand Theft Auto series won’t be arriving this spring as expected, fans of the game have taken to amusing themselves on Twitter by sharing...Categories: Social Media, Games/Entertainment -
Games Fleadh 2013 captures restless spirit of a local industry in rapid growth mode News
16.03.2013 The momentum and skill of Ireland’s rapidly growing games industry – which grew 90pc in the past three to four years – was captured in Thurles, Co Tipperary, this week when...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Digital gaming sector in Ireland grew 90pc between 2009 and 2012 News
14.03.2013 Employment in Ireland’s digital gaming sector grew 90pc between 2009 and 2012 and this growth rate can be sustained and accelerated over the next three years, the annual Games... -
Call of Duty: Black Ops II was biggest-selling entertainment title of 2012 News
13.03.2013 Call of Duty: Black Ops II was the UK’s biggest-selling entertainment title in 2012 with sales of 2.7m copies, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) in the UK. -
GameSpace incubator in Dublin will support up to 30 start-ups at a time News
28.02.2013 Games Ireland has opened a new game-specific incubator GameSpace based with Pulse College/Windmill Lane Recording Studios in the IFSC in Dublin. The incubator has been...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Digital MediaTags: Video Games, Start-ups, -
The hunt is on for a team of Irish students to compete in Dare to Be Digital News
27.02.2013 The Irish leg of the international Dare to Be Digital games development competition has been launched today by the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA) and applications are now...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Development -
SCEE Worldwide Studios SVP explains the new PlayStation ecosystem News
22.02.2013 Michael Denny, senior vice-president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Worldwide Studios, couldn’t give us any more specifics of the PlayStation 4’s release, but he did... -
PlayStation 4 arrives holiday 2013: more power, more sharing and more downloads News
21.02.2013 Sony’s hotly anticipated PlayStation announcement did confirm that a PlayStation 4 (PS4) will arrive in 2013. It did not, however, reveal what that device will look like and,...Categories: Games/Entertainment -
Bungie, Blizzard, Capcom and more preview their PlayStation 4 wares in NYC (videos) News
21.02.2013 Sony didn’t have a completed PlayStation 4 to show off last night, but what it did have was a multitude of developers and publishers eager to showcase the stunning, creative and... -
Live from the PlayStation reveal in New York News
20.02.2013 Siliconrepublic.com’s Elaine Burke is at Sony’s PlayStation meeting in New York tonight, where details of what the electronics giant has up its sleeve will finally be revealed.Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Halo makers unveil plans for 10-year sci-fi epic Destiny (video) News
18.02.2013 The creators of perhaps the most successful video-game franchise to date are back with an ambitious plan to create a ‘shared world shooter’ that will expand over the course of...