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Kongregate: a Next Generation Web Games Marketplace

Kongregate is an alpha stage online gaming site that will let users upload games they have built, charge users for premium play or features with a one click payment system and share revenues with the site from premium payment and advertisements. The company aims to take the site live just after the holiday season.

Kongregate will offer between 25% and 50% of ad revenue to game contributers, depending on how closely and exclusively the game is integrated into the Kongregate site. 80% of revenue from in-game microtransactions will go to the game creator.

technorati tags:Gaming, Flash, Kongregate, Online, Webgames

‘Rings’ director signs on for ‘Halo’ game

Director Peter Jackson, who won an Academy Award for his “Lord of the Rings” films, is adding another title to his resume: video game mogul. The filmmaker and Microsoft Wednesday announced a partnership to launch a development studio and collaborate on a new “Halo” game.

From CNN.com

technorati tags:LOTR, PeterJackson, Director, Halo, Games, Game

Could Apple Become Games Console King?

For all the hype about iTV, here’s another potential application: iGames. Could Steve Jobs and co really have their eye on the console market?

From BusinessWeek

technorati tags:Apple, iGames, Games, Gaming

Japan gets PlayStation 3 price cut

Sony Corp. said Friday it will slash the price of its
much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20
percent, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war
against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.The announcement comes
just days after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would roll out an
external high definition DVD player for its Xbox 360 in an effort to
match the PlayStation 3, due to be released in November with its own
Blu-ray DVD technology.

From CNN Tech

technorati tags:PS3, Sony, Pricecut, Cheap, Gaming, Console

Biofeedback system to guarantee gaming thrills

Video games could monitor your vital signs and emotional state to ensure an exhilarating experience – the system is being tested on fairground rides

From NewScientist

technorati tags:Games, Diagnosis, Videogames, Emotions

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EA’s Dynamic Ad Blitz

The company’s plan to include rotating ads in its video games has huge potential. But will players feel compelled—or annoyed?

From BusinessWeek

Attack of the B-Grade Games

The best games on the market are referred to as AAA titles. This refers to the cost required to make them, but it’s often used to indicate the quality of a game title as well. Not every disc you pop in a drive can be God of War, though. Games that honestly give their all deserve at least a little respect; B for effort, as it were.  Read here for the Attack of the B-Grade Games!

From Slashdot

id Software’s New Direction

Read John Carmack’s views of the number one FPS game developer.

It’s a little late in the game for you to have to justify a PS2 to your ladyfriend, and it’s way late in the game if your ladyfriend is of the ilk to want a PS2 of her very own. That said, as we all know well from Motorola and their best-selling RAZR, when you’re late getting your new product out the door, the thing to do is release the old product in a new color. Enter the pink PS2. We’re not yet entirely sure when (or if) it’s hitting US shores, but it’s launching on the 8th of November over in Old Blighty. Oh, and for our gamer pals across the pond: thanks to the Leipzig Games Convention, which kicked off today, you’ll see a dip in price of that PS2 as well. It’ll only set you back £94.99 and €129.99 now, which doesn’t help us over in the States too much, but we can’t complain as our PlayStation 2s still cost significantly less. Unfortunately that price dip won’t help out your purchase of pink there, which is still going to go for £129.99 (bundled with SingStar Pop), and €159.99 otherwise.

From Engagdget