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| Guitar Hero: On Tour Sets Sales Record Activision's Largest Nintendo DS Launch Activision today announced Guitar Hero: On Tour has sold in excess of 300,000 units in North America in the first seven days since its launch, making it the largest North American launch for the Nintendo DS in the company's history by more than a factor of eight. In addition, Guitar Hero: On Tour's performance ranks it as one of Activision's top 5 best-selling launches of any title on any platform in the company's history. July 3, 2008 |
| Diablo III Unveiled Blizzard Entertainment announces highly anticipated sequel at 2008 Worldwide Invitational in Paris Blizzard Entertainment today revealed Diablo III, the newest entry in its critically acclaimed action role-playing-game franchise. The announcement was made during the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational at the Porte de Versailles Convention Centre in Paris, France. A cinematic trailer and an extended gameplay demonstration with commentary from the development team introduced the game to the thousands of players in attendance. June 28, 2008 |
| Call of Duty: World at War Enlists for New Battles Expanding Its Theater of Operations to the Pacific, Latest Title in Hit Franchise Poised to Re-Define the WWII Experience Leave your packs and bring extra ammo, Activision and Treyarch announced today that they will be taking Call of Duty players deep into the South Pacific and European theaters this fall for Call of Duty: World at War, a gritty fight that will pit players against enemies that know no surrender and show no mercy. Utilizing the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War throws out the rulebook of war to transform WWII combat through a new enemy, new tactics and an uncensored experience of the climatic battles that gripped a generation. As U.S. Marines and Russian soldiers, players will employ new features like cooperative gameplay, and weapons such as the flamethrower in the most chaotic and cinematically intense experience to date. June 23, 2008 |
| Radeon HD 4850 Cinema 2.0 Experience Breaks Barrier Separating Cinema and Games AMD teraFLOPS chip powering Cinema 2.0 demo is more powerful than every generation of game console ever brought to market combined; achieves industry milestone that was presumed to be years away At a press conference June 16, 2008, in San Francisco, AMD demonstrated a milestone achievement in ultra-realistic and interactive visual computing through the processing power of its forthcoming teraFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second) graphics chip, codenamed “RV770”. June 17, 2008 |
| Graphics Evolves Beyond Gaming With New NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 200 GPUs Revolutionary Processor Does Double Duty as the Most Advanced GPU Ever Built and a Second-Generation CUDA General Purpose Parallel Processor Imagine instead of taking over five hours to convert a video for your iPod, it only takes 35 minutes. Imagine using your PC to simulate protein folding to help find a cure for debilitating diseases. Imagine that your PC can dramatically accelerate everyday tasks, and deliver an exciting visual experience in the process. Today that imagination becomes a reality now that the leader in visual computing technologies, NVIDIA, has introduced its new family of GeForce GTX 200 graphics processors (GPUs)—which includes the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs—taking graphics beyond gaming and gaming beyond anything that’s ever been possible before on a consumer computing platform. June 16, 2008 |
| Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for Biggest Losers on Wii Introducing the First Game to Integrate a Celebrity Fitness Trainer with the Wii System and the Ground-Breaking Wii Balance Board Shed the extra weight while having fun! Majesco Entertainment, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, is partnering with celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels, the strength trainer and life coach on the popular television series "The Biggest Loser," and Interactive Game Group to deliver the first Wii game that combines a celebrity fitness trainer and the motion-based Wii system and Wii Balance Board accessory--Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009. Integrating a tiered fitness regimen, expert advice and exercise techniques from the charismatic Jillian Michaels, the game delivers a focused workout that will help players reach their own personal fitness goals. June 12, 2008 |
| EA and Crytek Announce Crysis Warhead The Next Installment of One of the Highest Rated Games of 2007 Blasts Its Way Onto PCs This Fall Maximum freedom, maximum explosions and maximum Psycho! Electronic Arts and award-winning independent studio Crytek today announced Crysis Warhead - the parallel story to Crysis, one of the most critically-acclaimed first person shooters and PC games of 2007. Shipping exclusively for the PC this fall, Crysis Warhead is the first title to be developed at Crytek's Budapest studio, and is built on a new, enhanced and optimized version of Crytek's CryENGINE 2 technology. June 5, 2008 |
| Experience Kung Fu Awesomeness with the Kung Fu Panda Video Game Activision is bringing a unique blend of humor and action to gamers with the release of Kung Fu Panda, the video game based on DreamWorks Animation's highly anticipated feature film. In order to become the Dragon Warrior and defeat the ultimate enemy, Tai Lung, players engage in kung fu moves and master the unique fighting style of unlikely hero Po the Panda and experience the legendary moves of Shifu, Po's Teacher, and the Furious Five - Monkey, Tigress, Viper, Mantis and Crane. June 3, 2008 |
| Get Your Meat Cleaver Ready, Splatterhouse is Coming Classic Action-Horror Franchise to Debut on the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 in 2009 with Gruesome Combat and Heart-Stopping Scares NAMCO BANDAI Games today announced the long-awaited debut of the Splatterhouse franchise on next generation consoles with an all-new installment of the series for the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3, developed by BottleRocket Entertainment. Inspired by the landmark 1988 arcade hit, Splatterhouse combines visceral, adrenaline-soaked combat with horror elements to deliver an original gaming experience that defies the boundaries of the traditional action category with over-the-top gore and shocking new gameplay mechanics. May 29, 2008 |
