4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: KDE), a global provider of children's entertainment, has been named worldwide (excluding Japan and Korea) licensing agent for merchandise based on the Mini NinjasTM action adventure video game from Eidos Interactive, which was released this month on multiple platforms.
Disney Interactive Studios announced today it has agreed to acquire Wideload Games Inc., a Chicago-based producer and developer of original interactive entertainment.
Sixteen works of art have been selected from a field of more than 200 submissions from around the world for the 2009 Into The Pixel Art collection. In its sixth year, Into the Pixel (ITP) is the only juried digital art exhibition that brings together experts from the traditional fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry to display and discuss the art of the video game. Into the Pixel is a joint effort of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, the Entertainment Software Association and the Prints & Drawings Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
BURBANK, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Disney Interactive Studios today announced the appointment of Dan Tudge as vice president and general manager of Propaganda Games, Disney Interactive Studios' development studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. Tudge is tasked with overseeing the operations of the 130-person studio as it continues the development of two unannounced games.
MIAMI (April 16th 2009): Vapor Post, the Miami-based boutique post-house (www.vaporpost.com), is pleased to announce the formation of Vapor Post Interactive through an alliance with Digiworks, one of Mexico City's leading interactive agencies (www.digiworks.com).
April 13, 2009 -- EYA Interactive Co. Ltd. (EYA Interactive), one of the world's premier multimedia entertainment service providers, announced today that TITAN ONLINE, its free-to-play, massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), will enter into the Grand open beta on April 28. Players can get a taste for this martial arts fantasy by logging in at http://titan.eyagames.com.
Paramount Digital Ent. and European production and distribution company Gaumont will develop SECTION 8, an interactive web series exclusively distributed in the U.S. by MySpace.
Endemol will handle worldwide distribution, product integration and brand partnerships.
Warner Bros. has launched "WATCHMEN - 6 Minutes to Midnight."
Visit the site and enter your name to experience a 10-minute long interactive trailer for WATCHMEN. You will enter the world of WATCHMEN, interact with one of the characters, and unlock exclusive content from the film.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) and IFC (Independent Film Channel) will bring the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA) to television audiences for the first time.
The awards will take place on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at the Red Rock Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The IAA will be broadcast on IFC in April 2009 and comprise of a half hour special with highlights from the IAAs and will be hosted by comedian, actor and proud game enthusiast, Jay Mohr.
City Interactive has signed an agreement with Nintendo of America to develop and publish titles for the Nintendo DS and Wii.
City Interactive is an international video game publisher and developer. With a broad range of high-quality products for PC, handhelds and next-gen consoles, City Interactive aims to offer affordable games for casual and special interest gamers. With a presence in more than 40 markets on four continents, City Interactive has four in-house development studios located across Poland and Peru.
Heatwave Interactive, Inc., a cross-media entertainment development studios for games, film and television, announces the completion of the staffing of its Austin-based Central Studio.
VFXWorld goes deeper into Autodesk's surprising acquisition of 3D rival Softimage with Autodesk Media & Ent. SVP Marc Petit and Softimage General Manager Marc Stevens.
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), have signed an agreement where the IGDA will become involved in the Interactive Achievement Awards (IAAs).
The IAAs, now in their 12th year, are supported by all of the major video game publishers and developers in the industry. Their purpose is to recognize the top creative and commercial successes each year with Academy, and now IGDA members, voting on the winners.
GestureTek, creator of gesture-driven user interfaces, and Xpletive, innovators of immersive applications using next-generation technologies, have unveiled a space-age, custom-designed interactive attraction at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. GestureTek is the inventor and multiple patent holder of camera-enabled gesture control technology for interactive displays and entertainment experiences.
Teletoon Canada has appointed Caroline Soucy to the position of Director Teletoon Interactive. Soucy will lead Teletoon interactive and web development projects and supervise all aspects of the award-winning website teletoon.com, the recent winner of the Promax/BDA Silver Award for Consumer Website.
Australian-founded animation and vfx studio, Animal Logic announced its expansion into the game and interactive entertainment business with the formation of Animal Logic Interactive (ALI), to be headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Giancarlo Mori will oversee the new business division of Animal Logic, which will focus on original game and interactive entertainment design and development for traditional and emerging platforms and media.
The 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival provides practical how-to information, as well as career inspiration, bringing together some of emerging technology's most creative thinkers. The event features five days of keynote speeches, more than 120 panels, the SXSW Web Awards, the iF! Trade Show & Exhibition, the ScreenBurn Arcade, and dozens of exciting evening events. For more information, see http://www.sxsw.com/interactive.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) is hosting the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit. The D.I.C.E. Summit 2008 will open with a high-profile keynote speaker, followed by the wildly popular Opening Night Party, which will host the movers and shakers of the interactive entertainment industry.
In addition to the lineup of speakers, the D.I.C.E. Summit 2008 will again feature the Interactive Achievement Awards, which will be hosted by comedian and GHOST WHISPERER co-star Jay Mohr.
TASI, the Animation Society of India, presents "Animation for Those Who Can't Draw." Conducted by Sanjiv Waeerkar, Creative Director UTV, the five-hour interactive session will teach attendees performance and observation skills, followed by interactive group exercises.
Members should contact Ravish at 9833105305 for pre-registration. Non-members contact Ritesh at 9869403527 for details. Visit www.tasionline.org for more information.
The event will begin at 2:30 pm at the MET -- Mumbai Education Trust, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai.
The 9th Annual TV Show Europe 2007 highlights multi-platform interactive TV. The event will take place at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I in Barcelona. Speakers include: Erik Lumer, ceo of Babel Networks (Italy); Miles Beckett, exec producer/creator of "LonelyGirl15," Telegraph Ave. Prods. (U.S.); Robert Marsh, svp, interactive and telephony, Fremantle Media Licensing Worldwide (U.K.); and Santiago Miralles, gm, CCRTV Interactiva (Catalunya). For more information, visit www.itvshoweurope.com/.
After making the visually innovative thriller THE CELL in 2000, Tarsem Singh has not made a film for a major studio since. Now the director has signed on to make the sci-fi thriller, THE UNFORGETTABLE, for Warner Bros., according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Basil Iwanyk, David Goyer and Jason Hall are producing.
Based on the Warner Bros. Interactive Ent. videogame THE CONDEMNED: CRIMINAL ORIGINS, the script, which was first titled SPECIES X, follows a cop who discovers that he is an alien and that there is a war going on between two species of extraterrestrials on Earth.
SIGGRAPH 2007 will bring an estimated 25,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents to San Diego, California, for the industry's most respected technical and creative programs focusing on research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education and the web. SIGGRAPH 2007 includes a three-day exhibition of products and services from the computer graphics and interactive marketplace: Aug. 7-9 2007. More than 250 international exhibiting companies are expected. Registration for the conference and exhibition is open to the public.
WebbliWorld Ltd. commissioned Aardman Animations and Enable Interactive to design and develop www.webbliworld.com, a fun, interactive and engaging virtual world for children. The website features animated films starring new characters, as well as interactive games and adventures, and a fun, whimsical world for children to explore.
b.TWEEN is the UK's biggest interactive media industry gathering. Keynotes by industry dignitaries will set the scene for two action-packed days of featuring presentations, workshops, sessions, one2ones, Q&As, break-outs. Speakers feature an array of creative and business pioneers, including Matt Locke (commissioning editor for New Media and Education, Channel 4) and Peter Cowley (director of interactive media, Endemol).
Sony Pictures Imageworks artists on SPIDER-MAN 3 will reveal the creative challenges and technical achievements in creating the triple threat of the movie's dangerous villains (Sandman, Venom and New Goblin) at SIGGRAPH 2007, the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques held Aug. 5-9 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
