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Xbox Co-creator Announces His Game Plan
News Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley is set to unveil his new venture on Friday, the first independent production company focused on video games. While the money side is important, Blackley said Capital's main advantage will be the expertise of its...
[May 10, 2002, 13:16]
Sega Denies Report Of Dreamcast's Demise
News However, after the company halted production, it successfully transitioned to a software-only company. Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Tuesday that Sega will stop production of the Dreamcast game console by the end of March to focus on...
[January 24, 2001, 11:09]
Real Launching Subscription Game Service
News Andrew Wright, general manager of the company's game division, said RealArcade has provided a valuable outlet for game developers who don't want to deal with the super-complex projects and Hollywood-level production budgets.
[July 1, 2002, 8:45]
Sony To Make Handheld Game Device
News Steps include boosting production of self-published games, enhancing relations with third-party developers and creating many more games that link the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. Don't look to Sony just for leadership in the games space," he...
[May 14, 2003, 7:54]
No Hard Drive In Xbox Future?
News The combination has bolstered speculation that Microsoft will drop the hard drive from the next version of the Xbox to cut production costs for the money-losing console. Sacrificing the hard drive could be a relatively painless way to trim $10...
[February 26, 2004, 8:10]
Sega And Nintendo Vie For Attention
News Sega decided to leave the console business, stopping Dreamcast production at the end of January and slashing its retail price from $150 to $100. Set-top boxes, such as the type that will come out of the alliance with Shipley, England-based Pace...
[February 16, 2001, 10:53]
Linux Must Be Slicker To Grab Desktop Space
News Soaring production costs for top-tier games make it futile to try to convince big game developers to produce Linux titles, said Jay Moore, evangelist for GarageGames, which publishes games and game-creation tools.
[April 26, 2004, 11:40]
PS2 Production Moves To China
News According to a Reuters report, the company has already shifted half of its console production to two Chinese facilities run by Taiwanese electronics components makers Hon Hai Precision Industry and Asutek Computer.
[March 17, 2003, 9:53]
ECTS: Be Tempts Gamers With OS Enhancements
News T-RackS audio mastering suite; GrooveMaker real-time random mixing suite; Blender,a 3D graphics suite complete with 3D interface for modellers and post-production users; a slew of games, including Quake II and III running in Voodoo accelerated...
[September 6, 1999, 12:25]
Eidos Misses Film Opportunity
News The film, "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", is released on Friday in the US, and comes to the UK next month, but Eidos says it will not release a new Tomb Raider game until next year because of differing production schedules in the gaming and movie...
[June 15, 2001, 13:44]
Microsoft Lends Support To 64-bit Push
News While the beta version of the 64-bit Windows XP is available now to Microsoft's testers, the production version of the OS won't come out in the first half of 2004, the company said. But AMD might have hoped that the beta's debut and the release of...
[September 23, 2003, 16:45]
Collaboration Crossing Industry Borders
News We went to New Zealand (where Jackson's production company is) five times. But to the production teams, which often work closely together, the appeal of simultaneously creating a movie and related game goes far beyond pure marketing.
[December 16, 2005, 15:05]
Microsoft Denies Flaw In Xbox Motherboard
News A Microsoft representative, while declining to discuss specific production issues, said there were no flaws with the Xbox motherboard and the console is on schedule. In their report, Ross and Readerman said it was unlikely that the production delay...
[August 15, 2001, 10:28]
Xbox May See Manufacturing Delay
News The production delay, however, is unlikely to affect the device's 8 November US launch date because of the option of cranking up the current slack production schedule, the analysts wrote in a report on Tuesday morning.
[August 15, 2001, 8:30]
The Lessons Of Experience
News In some ways, the old games are a little bit purer because they completely focused on those elements instead of production values. All those production values that make very pretty chess sets actually make the game harder to play.
[March 16, 2005, 11:40]
PlayStation 3 Chip Nears Completion
News At this rate, commercial production of Cell could come as soon as the end of 2004. More than games The processor has always been associated with Sony's PlayStation 3 and peer-to-peer computing, but will do more than allow players to battle opposing...
[August 6, 2002, 13:07]
Pentium 4 Delay Gives AMD Top Spot
News On recent financial conference calls, Intel executives had said that the company would enter into volume production of the new Pentium 4 during the fourth quarter but did not discuss commercial release dates.
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
Microsoft Earnings Slip Below Targets
News Colleen Healy, a general manager in Microsoft's investor relations unit, said that the weaker earnings came as Microsoft invested money in its services push and also as it tried to ramp up production of the Xbox 360 games console.
[April 28, 2006, 9:35]
High-tech Morphing Indie Films
News Miller's film project, under the aegis of his film production company, Land of Point, is still under wraps. Looking at the computer games Myst and Riven, which take place in a lush, mysterious and seemingly infinitely detailed fantasy world, it...
[May 20, 1999, 9:54]
Intel To Start New Year With New Chip
News In 2005, the product and production problems vanished, but Intel continued to lose market share to rival AMD. You will be able to do a Skype voice call while playing video games," Kresslin said on Tuesday at a company presentation in San
[December 14, 2005, 9:45]
