Clients, Contacts & Vendors in the News:
- NBC Universal partners with Twitter for official up-to-the-minute Olympics coverage. [more]
- AMC Networks get 34 Emmy Award Nominations. [more]
- 2K announces it will take gamers about two days to finish Borderlands 2 for each character, with approximately 200 hours of play in campaign mode. 2K is making it clear that they want their customers to get an ongoing value for the money they are spending on the game. [more]
- In an exclusive interview, Trion’s Senior Producer for Defiance, Rob Hill discusses how by facing the challenges of building virtual worlds that work on TV, PC and beyond, and by working out how to mesh multiple ways of creating content, Trion is looking far into the future of gaming. [more]
- Trion offers current subscribers a free week of Rift. [more]
- After two decades in the making, Discovery Channel’s $53 million dollar telescope captures its first images. [more]
- Warner Bros. makes a ‘generous’ donation to the victims of the Dark Knight Rises shooting victims. [more]
- Warner Bros. holds off reporting the opening grosses of Dark Knight Rises in respect of the shooting victims. [more]
- Activision has “serious intention” to get into mobile gaming in a “significant way”. [more]
- EA joins a coalition of American businesses opposing the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. [more]
- EA announced today it will be merging together its two Australian mobile development studios –Firemint and Iron Monkey — to form a new studio. [more]
- Industry Rumor: OnLive controller support may come to Nexus 7. [more]
- Gree announced that they are planning to open a new studio in Vancouver, complementing their push into North America which includes a new studio in San Francisco. This will be their seventh studio. The company hopes it will release its first game in the next eight months. [more]
- Zyngo, one of the largest social gaming services, gets first female director. [more]
