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Activision Blizzard Talks to Sell World in Conflict Dev

Publisher Activision is currently in talks for the sale of World in Conflict developer Massive Entertainment following its recently completed merger with Vivendi Games, studio executives confirmed to Videogaming247.

"It seems like we have plenty of options. We've had some good meetings here," said Massive founder and president Martin Walfisz. "Being a part of a merger like this is a strange situation, because obviously the new organization has to look over all of its assets, everything it owns and its strategy for the future."

Activision Blizzard revealed late last month that several titles and two internal studios owned by corporate component Vivendi would not make the transition to the newly-formed company. Massive was listed as o...

Infinite Undiscovery Screenshots Discovered

Publisher Square Enix has passed in a batch of 30 new screenshots from Infinite Undiscovery, a new menu-based RPG in development for the Xbox 360.

Developed in collaboration with Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean creator tri-Ace, Infinite Undiscovery will arrive at North American retailers on September 2.

Asus Launches Wii-like Eee Stick PC Controller

Taiwan-based computer hardware maker Asus has released a new Wii-like controller called the Eee Stick (pictured left), which promises to bring motion controls to PC gaming.

Going by information reported by Register Hardware, the controller includes an "Activation stick" with seven buttons, paired with a "Navigation stick" equipped with an analog stick. Both components appear to incorporate additional buttons on the front ends of the units, much like the Z and C buttons on the Wii Nunchuck controller.

The device is said to support 3D motion, pointing and tilt sensing. Both components of the Eee Stick broadcast a 2.4GHz RF signal to a USB dongle connected to a ...

Nvidia Adding PhysX Processing to Existing GPUs Next Week, Developers Line Up with Support

Hardware manufacturer Nvidia is set to add PhysX support to several lines of its graphics cards on August 12, according to Tech Report.

Nvidia GeForce 8, GeForce 9, and GeForce GTX 200-series cards will support the new physics acceleration initially.

PhysX began as an Ageia Technologies' attempt at a dedicated hardware physics processor. The idea of an expensive physics processing card never took off, and Nvidia purchased Aegia in February of this year, announcing that it would directly incorporate Aegia's technology into its line of cards.

Game support for PhysX includes released titles such as Epic's Unreal Tournament 3, as well as upcoming projects like EA DICE's Mirror's Edge, Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War, and Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines and Borderlands.

Benchmarks predictably indicate that turning on the flashy P...

Video Games Are Terrorists, Claims Christian Post

Do not be alarmed, but according to The Christian Post, there are terrorists in your house right now.

"You may be surprised at how many 'terrorists' there are in your home right now. Video games, computers, cell phones, teen magazines, music, TV, & movies: all of which fall under the umbrella of entertainment and all are likely perpetrators," wrote columnist Ron Luce, pictured left.

"Every time we let unsupervised media into our homes and into our kids' minds, we have invited a terrorist into our home," the author of the recent novel Re-Create: Building a Culture in Our Homes That Is Stronger Than the Culture Deceiving Our Kids justified.

Luce argued that l...