Win $10,000 in Sony's third GIRL game design competition - winner announced

G.I.R.L. Scholarship Program Offers Additional Woman an Educational Opportunity of a Lifetime . Sylvia Liu of Milpitas, Calif., has been awarded the 2010 G.I.R.L.-Gamers in Real Life Scholarship. This marks the third year of the scholarship program, encouraging students toward career paths in the creative and applied arts, ultimately resulting in the development of video games that are more enticing for women to play.

Kids Get Active with the Entire Family with Family Party: Fitness Fun this September on Wii

Shake your arms, move your feet, and build a sweat in one party that you do not want to miss as D3Publisher today announced that Family Party: Fitness Fun is coming exclusively to Wii this September.

New Infantry Fighting Vehicles in the NATO Module

Although the three nations present in the module use the Leopard 2 MBT, the mechanized infantry units use three different IFVs. What you find in the module are two very different concepts: wheel versus track; light armored vehicle versus heavier infantry fighting vehicle. All of them share some aspects though.

Aeria Games Announces Grand Fantasia Portuguese

Aeria Games, a leading publisher of interactive entertainment, announced today that they will soon launch their second Portuguese title: Grand Fantasia Portuguese. Aeria Games is thrilled to offer the highly successful and well-loved title to the Portuguese-language community, and is currently accepting sign-ups for the Closed Beta Test via the game’s website.

Game on as Dare draws global media partners to Dundee

The world’s leading computer games competition kicks off today as students from across the globe arrive in Dundee to take part in a 10 week challenge in an attempt to produce the next big game. Dare to be Digital, now in its eleventh year, is organised and run by the University of Abertay Dundee and judged by some of the leading names in computer games development.

Monte Cristo Multimedia and Talented People join forces to promote reemployment for the team behind the first City Builder MMO: CITIES XL

Following the closure of the games development studio Monte Cristo Multimedia, Talented People is announcing the creation of a dedicated web space for the talented Monte Cristo former employees on its web site www.talented-people.org.

Digimania to Launch Muvizu using NaturalMotion’s morpheme

NaturalMotion, the animation technology company behind the euphoria engine, today announced that Digimania, formerly a unit of DA Group, has selected their morpheme animation middleware for use in the Muvizu 3D application, which enables anyone to create animated videos without specialist hardware, software or training.

Apple announce Farmville game coming to iPhone, iPad and iPod and it's NOT Flash!

Steve Jobs has announced at the Apple WWDC today that Farmville will be coming to the iPad, iPod and iPhone soon. Farmville is a Flash game and Zynga have re-written the code to run on the ipad family as they don't support Flash.

Farmville and Facebook have recently had a public fallout over charges for the game and this move by Apple could reinforce the rumor that Zynga will dump Facebook in favour of other platforms...

Peavey Electronics and Zivix Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Music Gaming

Peavey Electronics, one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of musical instruments and professional sound equipment, is bringing their music expertise to the videogame world by announcing a strategic partnership with developer Zivix. Peavey and Zivix are introducing the Peavey HeroMaker, a revolutionary full-sized six-string electric guitar and game controller, and the newly developed JamParty: Be the Music casual music videogame coming to console for digital download and PC in fall 2010.

Unity Technologies Celebrates Five Years of Continual Leadership and Innovation in Making Cutting Edge Game Technology

Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for highly interactive 3D on the web, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, Android, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, today celebrated Unity’s fifth anniversary. Unity, launched onstage at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2005, is commemorating five years of steadfast leadership and relentless innovation in enabling and empowering rich 3D games for web, mobile, console and anywhere else where games and immersive experiences are called for.