Tag archive: Pro Street

Are you one of the best, one of the very best, gamers? If so, and you’re from Europe, you really shouldn’t be reading this. You should be in Hanover, where the Samsung Euro Championships,part of the World Cyber Games, got underway yesterday at the CeBIT exposition. With 250 games and $100,000 inprize money, it’s proof that there’s serious money in gaming.   Contestants can compete on PC games – Warcraft 3: The… Read More

The National Institute on Media and the Family has issued its 2007 report card on the video game industry, and has reached some rather unsurprising conclusions: despite a few retailers' steps to curtail childrens' access to violent video games and new software and parental controls, these efforts have not kept pace with game publishers, and violence in video games continues to increase. Furthermore, the group warns the video… Read More

Game developer Electronic Arts, which very recently spent over $600 million to acquire BioWare and Pandemic Studios, is set to close a facility in England as part of a move to restructure and save $25-30 million a year in costs, according to a report onvnunet.com.   EA was hit by a net loss of $195million in the second quarter of this year, a stark turnaround from the same period in 2006, when it enjoyed anet profit of $22million.  … Read More