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Play N Trade and FraggedNation partner to provide an epic gaming experience for all to enjoy. San Clemente, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2013 In a world encapsulated by competition, Play N Trade and FraggedNation agree to a partnership that will increase awareness in the competitive gaming industry. Play N Trade will be promoted through FraggedNation’s social, competitive gaming website, and their 120,000 member base, as well as many other visitors to the site. In return, Play N Trade will...

In the news release, Pinnacle College Games Director Eitan Teomi to be Panelist At Industry's Top Event for Game Developers, issued 25-Mar-2013 by Pinnacle College over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the headline should read "Chief Academic Officer Eitan Teomi" rather than "Games Director Eitan Teomi" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: Pinnacle College Chief Academic Officer Eitan Teomi to be Panelist At Industry's Top Event for...

Will participate in Game Audio Education Roundtable at Game Developers Conference 2013 in San Francisco. LOS ANGELES, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eitan Teomi, Chief Academic Officer, Video Game Sound Design at Pinnacle College, has been selected to be a panelist at Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2013 at Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, March 25-29. GDC is the world's largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event. Teomi will join three other...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Cloud-gaming service Agawi on Thursday (Mar 21) announced it had formed a partnership with indie game developers to bring top PC titles to Android in April, and Apple’s iPad in the future. With tablet gaming exploding onto the scene, Agawi’s business model of “Any Game, Anywhere, Instantly,” is viewed as a lucrative move to garner some big revenue, especially with 240 million new tablets expected to ship this year....

First Annual Survey of More Than 2500 GDC Attendees Reveals Game Development Trends In Funding, Platform Preference, Publishing Models and More in this Next-Gen Year of Transition SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to paint a picture of the games business as it looks right before GDC 2013, the Game Developers Conference® (GDC) has polled more than 2,500 North American game developers who attended the conference in 2012 or plan to attend GDC 2013 in March about...

IndieGameStand (http://www.indiegamestand.com), a service that will offer a handpicked indie game for incredible "pay what you want" bargains every 96 hours, is excited to feature the promising McDroid. McDroid is a sci-fi action tower defense game currently in Beta. Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) February 05, 2013 4 months ago, IndieGameStand (http://www.indiegamestand.com) was launched, a service that offers a handpicked indie game for incredible "pay what you want"...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Video games are often compared to movies; both in how the plots shape up and how the numbers add up as in sales vs. box office receipts. This month, Activision Blizzard hit a new milestone when sales of its new Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 video game passed the $1 billion mark only 15 days after release. That is notable, as sales of the game hit a billion dollars two days faster than the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, which set a box...

KUNSHAN, China, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- World Cyber Games 2012 Grand Final came to an end with a big success on Dec. 2(nd) in Kunshan, China. This is WCG's 12(th) Grand Final and again proved to be the world's largest computer and video game festival. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121203/HK22374 ) A total of 110,000 spectators and about 400 journalists from all over the world came over to Kunshan to watch the world top 500 players from 40 countries....

KUNSHAN, China, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- World Cyber Games, the longest eSports competition in the world, held the opening press conference and spectacular opening ceremony for the WCG 2012 Grand Final in Kunshan, China on Nov 29(th). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121130/HK21661 ) The Opening Press Conference was held with 300 journalists from over 30 countries and Opening Ceremony was held in Kunshan International Convention & Exhibition...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Within its first 24 hours of availability, Call of Duty: Black Ops II has already netted $500 million in sales. This is a new record, according to the game maker Activision Blizzard, and proves once more that the annual release of a new Call of Duty title is “the biggest entertainment launch of the year.” Black Ops II has easily outsold another highly anticipated video game title — Microsoft’s Halo 4 — which sold an...