Update’s on: HP’s gaming unit, and EA’s SimCity Societies
Hewlett-Packard ’s gaming unit is holding off on launching systems based on Intel ’s new Penryn processor, saying that while the 45 nm chip is reliable on Intel chipsets more work needed to be done for the CPU to work with Nvidia’s SLI. — ChannelWeb
Electronic Arts Inc. has shipped SimCity Societies, the newest edition of the top selling PC franchise, SimCity, to stores across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe today. A version of the game is also available for mobile platforms. In SimCity Societies, players construct not only the cities they desire, but mold their cultures, societal tendencies and environments as well. — Ad-hoc News
Updates on: Electronic Arts, One Laptop Per Child, game development, IBM, Brandeis
Game developer, Electronic Arts (EA), has announced donating its original 1989 classic, “SimCity”, to the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project. — Tech Tree
NEW DELHI: If you have an idea to make learning fun, campuses are all game. And with scores of firms introducing educational games targeting school, colleges, besides management students and professionals alike, learning could be just fun. Companies in the education space — Educomp, NIIT, 24×7 learning, Gurukul Online, Applect Learning Systems and Tutorvista, to name a few — are either planning to launch or have launched education-based computer games. — Economic Times
IBM is working with Brandeis International Business School (IBS) to test “serious games,” video games designed to help students build combined business and IT skills often required in today’s work environments. — Campus Technology
Updates on: Harmonix, Electronic Arts, Second Life
Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks today announced the release of a new interactive music title, Phase, on the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) for fans to purchase and download for play exclusively on the new iPod nano with video, iPod classic and the fifth generation iPod for $4.99. — CNN
Electronic Arts and Harmonix were today pleased to announce that their hotly anticipated music videogame, Rock Band, has reached the end of the development and is now in final production and manufacturing. — Play Static
Business and education leaders are testing Second Life’s waters to discover how they can use it to influence thinking and behavior in the real world. In Phoenix, David and Montse Anderson have recently started a consulting service called “It’s Oque” that helps other companies harness Second Life’s virtual environment, and then use it to educate and train workers. — AZ Central
Updates on: Les Echos, 4INFO, Electronic Arts
Luxury goods company LVMH has bought Les Echos, the biggest-selling business newspaper in France, from the Pearson media group for 240m euros (£167m). — BBC News
4INFO, Inc., the leader in SMS publishing and advertising, announced it has inked an exclusive publishing partnership with the San Francisco 49ers to give fans the ability to receive and access news and information about the team, games and players via their mobile phones. — Market Wire
4INFO announced that it has partnered with Maxim Digital, the fast growing family of websites and mobile properties for young men, to deliver free daily text message alerts that provide a link to Maxim’s content on the mobile web. — Market Wire
Video-game software publisher Electronic Arts swung to a fiscal second-quarter net loss, hurt by an accounting change, but shares climbed 5 percent after the company outlined a promising product lineup and said it expected to see a “great” holiday season. – CNN
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