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Regroup Esports Purchases Second Largest Xbox Community Worldwide Regroup Esports, a media and entertainment company specializing in electronic sports, recently acquired the world's second largest Xbox fansite, Xbox Users Group. Regroup Esports has several years of experience in the market...

Australian Video Game Industry Appeals to Government for Support The The Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) will take the opportunity to appeal to the Australian Federal Government at Game Connect: Asia Pacific 2007 Conference and Expo to grant the video game industry the same 40%...

Atari Grabs International Federation for Equestrian Sports Licensing Atari announced its plans to create horse-themed videogames with the endorsement and support from the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), which is the governing body of equestrian sports as recognized by the...

U.K. Bans Burnout: Dominator Ad The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will not allow Electronic Arts to use their poster ad for Burnout: Dominator. According to Gamasutra [http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14484], the ASA decided the depiction of the crashed...

Kuju Sheffield Reformulates as Chemistry Kuju Sheffield announced today it will now be known as Chemistry. Chemistry specializes in creating games based on Epic's Unreal Engine and recently moved to new premises in central Sheffield as part of its plan to expand. "We've decided to...

Welsh Game Development Student Starts Centrifuge Interactive Studios Adam Griffiths, a student about to graduate from the University of Wales, Newport, plans to set up a company called Centrifuge Interactive Studios to jumpstart the country's game industry. "I will hopefully help establish a...

Tomb Raider: Anniversary to Be Delivered Episodically Tomb Raider: Anniversary, will be released on Xbox 360 as downloadable episodic content for owners of Tomb Raider Legend. This is the first serialization of a full retail game that will be available for purchase through Xbox Live...

Halo 3 Beta Closes, Themed Accessories Announced The Halo 3 beta has concluded, but Microsoft has announced new, themed Xbox 360 accessories will be available for purchase. The public beta saw more than 820,000 unique participants and more than 12 million hours of online gameplay during its...

Transgaming to Bring EA Titles to the Mac Electronic has announced plans to bring top-tier games to OS X this summer, with the help of Cider. TransGaming's Cider, an emulation suite helps Windows-only programs run in an OS X environment, eliminates the need to re-code a videogame for each...

Overlord Demo Now Available for Download Codemasters announced today the release of the Overlord playable demo, now available on the PC and Xbox Live Marketplace. In addition to the demo, PC gamers can download their very own Desktop Minion from Codemasters' web site and rank a series of...

Codemasters Appoints Industry Vets to Manage its U.S. Office Codemasters today announced the addition of three gaming and entertainment industry veterans to its growing U.S. operations. Former Konami Digital Entertainment COO Geoff Mulligan will lead the U.S. management team as President of...

eGames Inc. Announces CEO will Swim for Charity eGames, Inc. announced today that company President and CEO, Jerry Klein, will participate in the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim on Sunday, June 10, 2007, for charity. Five percent of all sales of the company's recently released Burger Island will also...

Manual for Integrating Videogames into The Classroom Released This Week Teacher Ideas Press this week released "Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom," a resource for helping teachers integrate the study of videogames into their classes. "Playing to Learn: Video Games in the...

Dare to Be Digital 2007 Challenges Game Design Students Twelve teams of five students from Scotland, England, Ireland, India and China are competing in Dare to be Digital 2007, the U.K.'s premier game design competition. This competition is a chance for all 12 teams to showcase their...

Noesis Interactive Finds Distributor for "Mod Your World" DVDs Sumthing Distribution has partnered with Noesis Interactive to distribute the Mod Your World training series of DVDs. The Mod Your World DVD series teaches would-be game developers how to design, build and integrate 3-D...