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Written by Heather McGreaham
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 23:53 |
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Telltale Games is kicking off its fifth anniversary celebration today!
In 2004, Kevin Bruner and Dan Connors founded Telltale, Inc. with a new perspective on gaming. With years of experience working on grand scale projects akin to "blockbuster movies," Bruner and Connors created Telltale to establish a more nimble, faster-paced, digitally-distributed episodic game model comparable to television production. Five years later—with over one million episodes sold—Telltale is celebrating with an eye toward an even brighter future.
"In the last five years, we have constructed the infrastructure to license, build, and distribute multiple seasons of episodic content," says CEO and co-founder Dan Connors. "Now Telltale finds itself in a leadership position as the digital marketplace for games continues to shape itself and grow."
As the company reaches the five-year mark, Telltale's milestones include: - Working with well-known licenses including Aardman Animations' Wallace & Gromit, Homestarrunner.com's Strong Bad, Steve Purcell's Sam & Max, Jeff Smith's Bone, and television's CSI.
- Releasing the first regularly-scheduled episodic series on PC (Sam & Max) and the first monthly game series for a console (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People on WiiWare)
- Selling over 1,000,000 game episodes worldwide across all channels, platforms, and formats
- Releasing over 20 games since Spring 2005
- Developing for PC, Xbox360, and Wii
Telltale's most recent project, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, is releasing monthly on PC and coming soon to XboxLiveArcade. A new series in development will be announced at E3.
"The episodic model has been incredibly rewarding from a development standpoint," says CTO and co-founder Kevin Bruner. "It used to be we only made two or three games a decade. At Telltale, we release a new game every month, which fosters greater creativity with the teams, and the customers get to enjoy more content on a regular basis."
Telltale is kicking off its anniversary celebration today with a "Spread the Word" campaign that awards fans with store credit for bringing new customers into the Telltale community. This promotion will take place at Telltale's website over the next five weeks. To get involved, visit: www.telltalegames.com/anniversary. |
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Written by Heather McGreaham
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:43 |
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MEVO & The Grooveriders, "the first downloadable music/rhythm platform game for the casual PC market," is now available for download on Big Fish Games. Big Fish Games is the world's leading online destination for games and interactive entertainment. Based in Seattle, WA, Big Fish Games offers "A New Game Every Day!™" — Big Fish Games works with more than 500 game developers and distributes over 1 million games per day to consumers worldwide. A synchronized music/rhythm platform game, MEVO has been described as Mario Bros. meets Guitar Hero. This title for the casual PC game market is accessible to all players—young and old, beginner or expert. All music tracks are original, produced in-house with live musicians, and feature a unique and playful retro-funky style that varies from organic to electronic tracks. |
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Written by Heather McGreaham
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:36 |
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Her Interactive, Bellevue WA based designer, developer and distributor of the award winning Nancy Drew PC games, has announced a new collaboration with Microsoft’s MSN Games to distribute the company’s Nancy Drew Dossier and PC games.
Visitors to the MSN Games web site will be able to download the recently released Lights, Camera, Curses!, the first title under Her Interactive’s new Nancy Drew Dossier casual games series, as well as the company’s top-selling adventure games: Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull, Nancy Drew:The Phantom of Venice, Nancy Drew:The Haunting of Castle Malloy, Nancy Drew:The White Wolf of Icicle Creek and Nancy Drew:The Creature of Kapu Cave. MSN Games will be supporting the titles with a dedicated micro-site where future Nancy Drew PC games will be available for download.
“We are tremendously excited at the recent launch of our new casual online games series, as well as with our collaboration with MSN Games as it enables our worldwide audience of fans to access our games through a premier online destination,” said Megan Gaiser, president and CEO of Her Interactive. “We look forward to working with MSN Games on expanding our product offerings and making the micro-site a destination for Nancy Drew fans of all ages.”
The Nancy Drew Dossier Series is simple, immersive and cinematic – from dramatic opening to cliffhanger ending, with each game a compelling mystery story that the player interactively pushes forward to its revealing conclusion. The series is heavily story-based to include ongoing character and plot development across panoramic levels of rich exploration. |
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Written by Colin Torretta
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:39 |
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Realtime Worlds has tipped Vivox to bring voice chat to their upcoming cops-and-robbers MMO, ABP. It looks like the game is getting a pretty robust voice chat offering too, with users able to customize their voices via voice 'fonts' (um... like Helvetica?), and have access to one-on-one chat, group chat, and localized 3D chat. While Vivox may not be a familiar name to most gamers, they provide voice chat services to many of the biggest MMOs out there, including the Everquest franchise, Second Life and Eve Online and cater to over 10 million users so it looks like the game is in good hands. APB with all of its talkative goodness is slated to come out later this year on the PC. |
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Written by Heather McGreaham
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Friday, 20 March 2009 19:14 |
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Red Rocket Games' synchronized music/rhythm platformer, MEVO & The Grooveriders, is available for download today on Steam. Red Rocket's debut game can also be downloaded from their website, but the Steam version of MEVO & The Grooveriders includes bonus Left 4 Dead characters Bill, Louis, Francis, Zoey, and the Hunter, so that's pretty cool. |
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