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Battlefield: Bad Company

March 20, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Get access to the Battlefield: Bad Company Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta in this Insider and Founders’ Club Event. North American and European Insider and Founders’ Club members with active Xbox LIVE Gold accounts can signup now and get their beta key. Xbox LIVE GOLD account required. Click the button below to find out how you can get beta... 

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Super Epic Video Game News

March 18, 2008   || Category: Gaming, On the Net | Leave a Comment

Our friend and past guest on the show, Mike McCafferty, has introduced a new show on the net titled “Super Epic Video Game News” (SEVGN). It’s a parody website devoted exclusively to video games. Sort of a mix of “the Onion”, “Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show” and “SNL,” they produce fake news that outrages some of the more... 

We aren’t even three FULL months into the year and already the video game industry is posting record profits. As of February 2008 revenue is up by as much as 34 percent over the same time period last year, which equates to a dollar figure amounting to about $1.3 billion, and total growth for the first two and a half months of 2008 is up nearly... 

Frank Miller’s “Sin City” franchise is now moving into the video game market with a release due out by Christmas 2009. The new video game will be lacking in one thing, big named star power lending voice to the many characters being portrayed in the vid, however, that doesn’t mean fans and gamers will be left short of an exciting... 

On March 14th head to Xfire to chat live with the developers of Manga Fighter, the addictive, free-to-play third-person shooter set in a fantasy toy world. Then from March 14th to 28th log hours on Manga Fighter to participate in the Manic Mayhem Play to Win Contest and Clan Competition! There are 30 chances to win prizes that include in-game and IRL... 

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EA’s “Dead Space” Has Online Site

March 4, 2008   || Category: Gaming | 1 Comment

Press Release Dead Space, the upcoming Sci-fi Horror gaming experience from Electronic Arts is on its way, and the game recently found its home online at DeadSpaceGame.com. Visit the site to view, rate, share and comment on the largest collection of Dead Space media available online. The site features in-depth exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage with... 

Very soon gamers all over the world will be able to free up their arms and hands for other multi-tasking duties while slaying that pesky dragon or blazing down the motor speedway in front of their favorite gaming console. Thought control gaming will become the wave of video games as early as the end of this year when Emotiv Systems Inc. plans to start... 

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Gears of War Sequel On the Way

February 21, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Gamers get ready for the new “Gears” sequel to the very popular “Gears of War” video game. A spokesperson for Microsoft Corp. said that the next phase for the Xbox 360 vid will hit the open gaming market this coming November, just in time for the beginning of the Christmas 2008 holiday shopping season. After the original “Gears”... 

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Gamers Beware of Boasting

February 20, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Source: Fox News Video Gamer’s ‘I Have Killed Them All’ Call Leads to Arrest DELHI, La. — A call mistakenly made by a victorious video gamer led to his arrest on an outstanding warrant. Authorities arrested Thomas Ballard, 29, of Delhi, early Monday after a woman reported receiving a late-night call from someone saying, “I... 

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I’ll Buy Park Place Please

February 20, 2008   || Category: Film, Gaming | 9 Comments

Hasbro Inc. announced today that is has signed a six-year deal with Universal Pictures to make at least four movies based on well-known games like Monopoly, Battleship, Candy Land and Ouija. The first movie from the deal is set to be released in either 2010 or 2011, with Universal releasing at least one film per year thereafter, according to a written... 

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The Next Gen in Star Trek Gaming

February 18, 2008   || Category: Gaming | 1 Comment

Written by: Kirok of L’Stok Star Trek: Excalibur, a fan-produced game previously being developed on the old Star Trek Bridge Commander game engine has announced that they are going to create a completely new game based on NanoFX GE, a freestanding development team working on a next-gen game engine for use in all types of sci-fi related games.... 

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STO - mini Game Needs Beta Testers

February 16, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

STSOURCE.com has been working on a star trek online mini game. They are currently launching their second beta stage has and beta testers are needed. If you are interested in becoming one of their beta people for this and possible future developments then registrations are being taken HERE The STO - mini game supports a number of player “races”... 

Source: CNN from Miles O’Brien SciTechBlog He has created some of the most iconic visuals in the history of film. From a giant, ravenous shark to aliens from far away worlds. Now, Academy Award-winning auteur Steven Spielberg is focusing his lens on your video-game console. EA, the world’s largest producer of video-games, and Spielberg have... 

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Euro Pro Night

January 29, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Where else can you find TEK9, Team-Dignitas, 4 Kings, Birmingham Salvo, and Emulate together in one place ready to play mixed and free-for-all games with you? Nowhere! Xfire has brought together the best teams in Europe for the European Pro Night. The first Pro Night session of the year promises to be spectacular with not only fantastic pro teams but... 

   Fear the Fruit: Play Now | Download (307) Some friends of FarPoint Media’s own Tony Mast (Tony’s Losing It) at the Fear the Boot podcast are hosting a local gaming Con called Fear the Con, on March 8, 2008. Tony will be attending the Con and will be handing out fresh fruit to the gamers, movie watchers, and anyone else in... 

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Perpetual Drops Star Trek: Online

January 16, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

This news should come as no surprise to those in the Star Trek gaming world but after 5 years of lackluster progress Perpetual Entertainment, now known as P2 Entertainment, wants to stop and drop development on “Star Trek: Online.” P2 is currently looking for another company to take over the project. Full details on the story and all its... 

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Independent Games Days

January 15, 2008   || Category: Events, Gaming | 1 Comment

JayisGames, Kongregate, Rampant Games, That Game Company, uTimeGames, Zakelro Story Studio, Bigpoint, Chronic Logic…do any of these names sound familiar to you? Well, they should! That’s why Xfire is putting on “Indie Games Days”, a two-day event introducing you to some of the brightest minds in the gaming world. January 24th... 

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“Blood Ties” — The Video Game

January 14, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Help private detective Vicki Nelson solve a series of unexplained missing persons cases that appear to be connected to a secret society. Is the connection real? Vicki thinks so, and its up to you to help her, along with her friend Henry (a 450-year-old vampire) and assistant Coreen, to investigate the crime scenes and solve the mystery! Unearth hundreds... 

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Firefly Gets Its Own MMOG

January 3, 2008   || Category: Gaming | 9 Comments

Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” series will get its own massively multiplayer online game (MMOG). The Multiverse Network, Inc., one of the largest and fastest growing companies responsible for MMOGs has only recently acquired the rights to develop the MMOG based on Whedon’s highly, but short-lived, popular sci-fi television series.... 

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Tekken Coming To Big Screen

December 20, 2007   || Category: Film, Gaming | Leave a Comment

Crystal Sky Pictures (”Ghost Rider,” “Doomsday”) is set to bring “Tekken,” one of Namco’s biggest selling Japanese video games to the big screen as a full feature. No word yet if the film will be animation, live-action or a combination of both. Director Dwight Little (”Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood... 

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Bruckheimer & MTV Sign Gaming Pact

December 19, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of such big blockbuster movies as the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and the Nicholas Cage “National Treasure” films, not to mention television shows such as all three “C.S.I” hits, “Cold Case,” “Without a Trace” and the highly popular reality program “The... 

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Big Gaming Merger

December 3, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

There is a new/old kid on the gaming block. The company is called Activision Blizzard and comes about as a result of a merger between Activision and Vivendi Games. This merger is being touted as the largest transaction the videogame industry has ever seen. Both companies have done well separately with entries such as “World of Warcraft”... 

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Xfire Gaming Update

November 19, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Drive ’til You Drop Sweepstakes and Chat! From November 29th - December 9th, Xfire and ijji will hold a contest to see who can log Drift City hours and cash in on prizes. The more you play, the more you can win at the Drive ’til You Drop Sweepstakes. Also, enter your clan in the “Clan Competition” and vie for the opportunity... 

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Wii Sports Big BAFTA Winner

October 25, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Nintendo’s “Wii Sports” was the big winner at this year’s BAFTA Video Games Award program in London, England. The platform walked away with a total of six awards Realtime Worlds’ “Crackdown,” took home the award for best action and adventure game. and SCE’s “God of War 2″ won two vidgame awards,... 

On October 31st our friends at Xfire are giving everyone a first look at Hellgate: London with a Launch Night Live Chat! Sign up now to chat with Bill Roper, the CEO of Flagship Studios, along with programmers and producers who worked on the game! Not only that, eight (8) lucky Xfire users will win a copy of Hellgate: London. Want to increase your... 

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EA Buys Out Two Gaming Giants

October 12, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Electronic Arts (EA), the major player in the video gaming industry, has just gotten bigger with the acquisition of BioWare and Pandemic Studios, two of the largest independent video developers in the world of gaming. The cost to EA was around $850 million, one of the largest gaming acquisitions on record. This leaves little question about which company... 

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“Halo 3″ Sets Another Record

October 5, 2007   || Category: Gaming | 4 Comments

If you thought the $170 million (USD) in sales in just 24 hours was impressive wait until you read the following. Microsoft announced this morning that in just one week the release of its highly touted “Halo 3″ video game has topped $300 million dollars in off-the-shelf sales worldwide. This staggering amount also helped Microsoft see a... 

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“Halo 3″ Is Money In the Bank

September 27, 2007   || Category: Gaming | 7 Comments

The Microscoft video game “Halo 3″ made more money on its opening day than most major motion pictures can collect in months on screens across the globe. This blockbuster sci-fi action sequel to the popular video game franchise chalked up an amazing $170 million in the United States alone this Tuesday when it went on sale for the first time.... 

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World Cyber Games on Xfire

September 25, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

The World Cyber Games Grand Finals makes its way to Seattle from October 4 - 7, 2007. If you are not uber enough to participate or rich enough to get there, don’t fret, Xfire will be there with the latest news and videos right from the floor. Stay tuned to the Xfire WCG page during the event for the most up to date information.  Read More →

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Quake Wars - Siege of September!

September 11, 2007   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Mark your calendars on September 21st and 28th for the “Siege of September” Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on Xfire. This official Activision event will feature three components: 1. A live broadcast invitational pro tournament. 2. A developer chat with ET:QW developers, Splash Damage. 3. A signature Xfire “Play with the Pros” gaming... 

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