29 Jun

Image Courtesy of Crave Online What Midway Games was hoping would start a high-price bidding war between companies turned out to be their only shot at purchase when Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment’s late-May bid of $33 Million turned out to be the studio’s only offer. Rumors and reports abound about many developers and publishers waffling […]

26 Jun

Electronic Arts and Dr. Pepper today announced a multi-million dollar marketing deal that will bring Dr. Pepper registered content to gamers and….drinkers…alike through the EA game library. In obtaining and entering codes common on over 500 million Dr. Pepper products, gamers can get access to exclusive content on a wide breadth of EA games, the […]

25 Jun

Square Enix, developer and published of the MMO Final Fantasy XI has been brought to court last Tuesday in a class-action filed with a Californian court. The case focuses on supposed “deceptive advertising, unfair and undisclosed business practices, and concealment” by Square Enix of America with regard to the monthly fees for their popular MMO. […]

24 Jun

EA recently made head-way into a proposed merger of famed-RPG developer Bioware and massively multiplayer online games studio Mythic Entertainment into one major, RPG/MMO development company. The yet unnamed studio will be headed by Bioware general manager and co-founder Ray Muzyka, with Bioware’s other co-founder Greg Zeschuk will take on the role of Group Creative […]