Tagged: Video Games
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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... -
JDIFF brings executive producer of Heavy Rain to Dublin News
13.02.2013 Guillaume de Fondaumiére, COO of French video-game developer Quantic Dream and executive producer of dramatic action-adventure video game Heavy Rain, will speak in Dublin this...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Digit Games Studios, the new High King of gaming News
12.02.2013 Digit Games Studios has ambitions not only to unleash a new kind of game, but a potential media brand empire that would be the envy of Rovio and Zynga. -
MMO giant Webzen acquires Gala Networks for close to US$18m News
05.02.2013 Online games company Gala Networks, which operates the online multiplayer (MMO) network gPotato with subsidiaries in Ireland and Brazil, has been acquired by Korean MMO giant... -
Grand Theft Auto V release delayed until September News
01.02.2013 The latest addition to the Grand Theft Auto series was expected to arrive this spring but, to the disappointment of fans, the official release date announced today is a few...Categories: Games/Entertainment -
Digit Games to create 25 jobs after raising US$2.5m in Series A funding News
30.01.2013 Dublin-headquartered games developer Digit Games Studios has closed a US$2.5m Series A funding round from Delta Partners and ACT Venture Capital. The investment will double the... -
Disney shuts down studio responsible for Epic Mickey series News
30.01.2013 Disney Interactive Studios has confirmed the closure of Junction Point Studios, developer of the Epic Mickey franchise, which was acquired by Disney in 2007 as it sought to...Categories: Games/EntertainmentTags: Video Games, Disney, -
Sony fined stg£250,000 over ‘preventable’ PlayStation Network breach News
24.01.2013 Sony has been fined stg£250,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office for what it deemed the preventable hacking of the Sony PlayStation Network platform in 2011 that... -
Video-game maker Atari files for bankruptcy protection News
22.01.2013 Atari, the maker of iconic video games such as Pong and Asteroids, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Paris and New York after it failed to acquire a successor to its main... -
Global Game Jam hackathon set for Belfast this month News
18.01.2013 Coders and creatives are being summoned to Belfast at the end of this month to take part in the Global Game Jam hackathon, where teams will compete to build a video game within...Categories: Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Media, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Development, DesignTags: Coding, Video Games, -
Havok picks up Game Developer Front Line Award for middleware News
18.01.2013 For the fifth consecutive year, Dublin-headquartered games physics technology company Havok has won the award for Best Middleware from Game Developer Magazine’s Front Line Awards.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Science, Investments, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Education, Digital Media, Development, Design -
Microsoft reveals a custom controller for Tomb Raider's Xbox 360 release News
11.01.2013 The original 1996 video game that made Lara Croft a household name will soon see a rebirth on the Xbox 360. To celebrate, Microsoft, developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher...Categories: Peripherals, Games/Entertainment -
Xbox triumphs as best-selling console of 2012 in US News
11.01.2013 Microsoft's Xbox 360 ended 2012 as the best-selling console of the year in the US, with 1.4m units having been sold in December alone, the NDP Group reported. -
14-year-old Harry Moran is back with new game app Robot Run! News
08.01.2013 Fourteen-year-old app developer Harry Moran, who shot to fame last year as the world’s youngest Mac app developer when his game PizzaBot went to the top of the app charts, is... -
E3 2013 Events
11.06.2013 E3 is the world's premier trade show for computer and video games and related products. The show is owned by the ESA, the US association dedicated to serving the business and... -
FÁS backs new games courses for those on Live Register News
19.12.2012 The world famous Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin is to be the scene for a new initiative supported by FÁS that will train unemployed people to give them the skills to find... -
Review of 2012 in gaming News
29.12.2012 We take a look at the last 12 months and ponder what games and consoles have left an impression on us. Money-makers, crowd-funding, Irish game development - Adam Renardson looks... -
The rise of cloud gaming (infographic) News
19.12.2012 Greener cloud gaming technologies first sprung up back in the 1950s, a new infographic shows, beginning with a theory by scientist Herb Grosch. -
Irish games developers review 2012 News
25.12.2012 It's been a good year for the Irish gaming community. It was announced that jobs in Ireland's video-games industry are up 91pc in the last three years. The Games Fleadh festival...Categories: Software Development, Social Media, Mobile, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Development, Apps