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Big Stage Entertainment partners with GGV Global Gaming on videogame promotion

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Big Stage Entertainment, Inc. is partnering with videogame social networking company GGL Global Gaming (GGL) to promote free game content on BigStage.com.

The first promotion rollout with a major video game publisher is scheduled for early 2009. Members of the BigStage.com and GGL communities will soon be able to insert their 3-D @ctor, a realistically animated digital clone quickly created for free from a few photos, into game cinematics, still images and animatics. Users can then share this content with friends and post to GGL community pages and other social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace.

With 26 million unique visitors per month, the GGL Network serves as a hub for videogame fans worldwide. The vast network of GGL gamers visit the site to find news, information and communities, in addition to competing in online gaming competitions and tournaments.

Originally posted on December 11, 2008 @ 10:56 pm

H3 Enterprises inks partnership with Xfire to unveil SodaShopTV

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Hip-Hop company H3 Enterprises has entered into an exclusive joint venture partnership with Xfire to form SodaShopTV. The live hip-hop and video gaming news talk show will offer video gamers and hip-hop music fans unrestricted access to video content. The show will feature weekly events from the HipHopSodaShop including celebrity artist performances, video gaming tournaments, sector news updates from both the video gaming and hip-hop scenes and much more. The show is set to debut in pilot format December 2008.

A unique landing page will launch on Xfire.com in the coming weeks with access to live streaming and on demand video from SodaShopTV. Additional information on SodaShopTV will be released in the coming weeks including a current lineup of show sponsors. The show is still currently in production.

Originally posted on November 28, 2008 @ 9:00 am

Cellufun extends mobile games to new carriers

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Mobile gaming portal Cellufun and ClearSky Mobile Media is making available Cellufun’s games community to ClearSky’s existing wireless carrier partners. This relationship marks the first time Cellufun has worked with a managed service provider to deliver its games to a large network of more than two million customers in North America.

Cellufun is already attracting five million unique users a month to its virtual world, mainly from off-deck and individual carrier subscriber growth. By partnering with ClearSky, Cellufun games will receive prominent placement on subscriber handsets through a multitude of regional carrier networks, making it much easier for wireless customers to discover the Cellufun community.

Originally posted on November 25, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

Gamescampus.com, MLB Advanced Media to launch free online baseball game

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Game publisher GamesCampus has signed an online interactive licensing agreement with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, granting it the right to incorporate official Major League Baseball league and club marks and logos, MLB ballpark images and more in its upcoming micro-transaction based online baseball game, MLB Dugout Heroes. It will be a free PC-based baseball game, expected to be available in North America for the 2009 baseball season.

The multi-year agreement gives GamesCampus the rights to all current and historical Major League teams, ballparks, All-Star teams and jewel events such as the home run derby. GamesCampus will also have rights to the official 2009 Major League Baseball regular season game schedule, enabling fans to simulate real seasons through actual game and series matchups.

Fans can expect a casual online baseball experience with a three–dimensional, cartoon-rendered graphic style and easy to pick up and play mouse-only controls. The game will offer four different modes of play for fans to choose from: tutorial, practice, single player and multi-player. Fans will be able to experience the fun of strategically managing a Major League Baseball club by forming a team, fostering its players and making all of the base-running, batting and pitching decisions – providing true interaction with on-the-field baseball play. With realistic character motions and unique verbal exchanges occurring between pitchers, batters, and color commentary, MLB Dugout Heroes will offer a truly unique and engrossing baseball game play experience – free of charge.

Originally posted on November 18, 2008 @ 12:58 am

Glu launches Transformers G1: Awakening on mobile phones

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Glu Mobile Inc. has launched Transformers G1: Awakening, a mobile strategy game based on one of the most recognizable and hugely popular entertainment franchises, Transformers. Transformers G1: Awakening follows the highly successful 2007 mobile game Transformers and is the second title Glu has developed and published from Hasbro’s Transformers franchise.

Originally posted on November 13, 2008 @ 6:41 am