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Napster Hires USB to Explore Strategies, Possible Sale of
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Online Gambling
Executives Arrested in France
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Report: European iPod
Owners Not Buying Songs Online
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Microsoft Enters
Video-Sharing Market with Launch of Soapbox
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Sweden's Pirate Party
Fails to Sway Voters in National Elections
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Sony Ericsson
Launches M-Buzz Mobile Music Service for Emerging Artists
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Report: 45% of
"Heavy" Gamers Are Between Ages 6 and 17
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Office of National
Drug Control Policy Posts Videos on YouTube
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Amazon's CustomFlix
Launches CD on Demand Service for Indie Musicians
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Disney Introduces
Mix Max Portable Video Player
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Report: Users
Migrating to Free AOL More Quickly Than Expected
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Global Event
Information Provider Eventful Raises $7.5 Million
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Disney: 125,000
Movies Sold on iTunes in Under a Week
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Sonific Debuts
Free Indie Music Service for Blogs, Websites
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Call for Entries:
11th Annual Webby Awards
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AOL RED to Sell
Excusive Download of Feature-Length Horror Film "Incubus"
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WPNI Debuts
Mobile Sites for Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate
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TouchTunes Adds
Billboard Charts to Digital Jukeboxes
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Social
Networks Tap VideoEgg for Embedded Videos
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Mobile USA Taps Vibes Media for Mobile Content Marketing
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EA
Announces "SKATE" Franchise, Ships "The Godfather" for 360, PSP
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BioWare
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Activision Ships "World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions"
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o Napster Hires USB to Explore
Strategic Alternatives, Possible Sale of Company
Los Angeles - Napster announced on Tuesday that it has
retained UBS Investment Back to help evaluate strategic alternatives
-- including a possible sale of the company -- in response to recent
third party interest. Napster claims 512,000 subscribers, annual
revenues exceeding $100 million and a cash position of $97 million.
"Napster is in a strong position to continue aggressively building
our business as an independent company and we are pleased to also
have the opportunity to thoughtfully examine potential combinations
that may further enhance Napster's unique strategic and brand
position in the center of digital media," said Napster chairman and
CEO Chris Gorog. "Our goal is to enhance shareholder value which
could potentially lead to a new strategic partnership or the sale of
the company but in any event our primary focus will remain on
growing Napster."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/nym264.html?.v=15
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060918/napster.html?.v=7 (Reuters)
http://www.napster.com
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Online Gambling Executives Arrested in France
London - Following the lead of their U.S. counterparts,
French authorities have detained two executives at an Internet
gambling firm, on allegations they violated French gambling laws.
The arrests of co-CEOs Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger of
Austria-based BWin International Entertainment -- the parent company
of gambling site Betbull -- were condemned by the company, which
maintains that it accepts no business from France. "The arrest of
Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger is an attempt to intimidate
an entire industry," said Betbull CEO Gunter Schmid. "To the
national courts, the European Courts, and the European Commission it
will send the signal that it is not the general public that requires
protection from abstract and unfounded threats of privately operated
gaming but it is the operators that require protection from the real
violation of their basic human rights from overpowering executive
bodies across Europe." The illicit gambling charges against BWin
executives follow the revocation of the company's betting license in
Germany, and the arrest of two executives of online gambling firms
by U.S. authorities.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/uktu009.html?.v=80
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13130-2363732,00.html
http://www.bwin.com
http://www.betbullplc.com
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Report: European iPod Owners Not Buying Songs Online
London - Only 17% of Europeans with iPods regularly buy
digital music, with an average of just 20 tracks on their players
purchased from stores like iTunes, according to a report from market
research firm Jupiter Research. The 83% majority reported that
ripping songs from their CD collections was the most popular means
of filling their digital music players, followed by tracks
downloaded from free file-sharing sites. Thirty percent of European
iPod owners said they used file-sharing networks. Jupiter projects
that Europeans spending on digital music will double in 2006, to
$487 million, with the majority of purchases made at Apple's iTunes
Store. "The model isn't broken, there's just lots of room for
improvement," said Jupiter analyst Mark Mulligan. "Digital music is
really underperforming its potential."
http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/research:concept/83/id=97791
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5350258.stm
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Microsoft Enters Video-Sharing
Market with Launch of Soapbox
Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft on Tuesday announced its entry
into the popular video-sharing space dominated by YouTube with the
U.S. beta launch of Soapbox on MSN Video. The Soapbox service lets
users upload and share up to 100MB of personal videos, and will be
deeply integrated with Microsoft online services including Windows
Live Spaces -- the company's new social networking platform -- and
Windows Live Messenger. "By adding a user-uploaded video service, we
are rounding out our existing investments in commercially produced
and original content on MSN Video," said Rob Bennett, general
manager of entertainment and video services for MSN. Microsoft's MSN
attracts 465 million visitors a month, including 11 million visitors
to MSN Video, while YouTube claimed 34 million visitors last month.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/sftu061.html?.v=74
http://soapbox.msn.com
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Sweden's Pirate Party Fails to
Sway Voters in National Elections
San Francisco - Sweden's Pirate Party failed to garner the
4% of votes in the country's national elections over the weekend
that were necessary for a seat in Sweden's Parliament, Wired News
reported. The political party was founded on a single issue --
copyright reform -- and gained much notoriety on the Internet
following the Swedish government's attempts to shut down a popular
Swedish file-sharing site called The Pirate Bay. While final vote
counts aren't due until tomorrow, the Pirate Party currently claims
0.62% of the vote -- or 33,000 votes -- also shy of the 1% of votes
necessary to obtain state assistance for future elections. Despite
the disappointing results, the group plans to continue on. "Morale
in the group is good and we are learning from this experience, as we
are taking new aims for the European Union election in 2009 and the
next Swedish election in 2010," Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge
told Wired News.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71809-0.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
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Sony Ericsson "M-Buzz" Mobile
Service to Promote Emerging Artists
London - Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between the
Japanese and Swedish electronics firms that makes mobile phones, on
Tuesday announced the launch of a mobile music promotional service
for developing artists. The M-Buzz service will initially feature a
limited selection of Sony/ATV Music Publishing artists -- such as
Kish Mauve, Embassy, Iggy and The Head Set -- and will offer
full-track downloads, music videos, bios and tour information
accessible on mobile phones. "M-Buzz is all about breaking new
artists; it's about giving tomorrow's stars, the artists that have
not yet been picked up by major record companies, the exposure they
deserve and the possibility for them to reach a wider audience,"
said Martin Blomkvist, head of content acquisition and partner
management at Sony Ericsson. The M-Buzz service will go live on Oct.
2 in markets already offering the Sony Ericsson PlayNow mobile music
service, and will be compatible with new Sony Ericsson Walkman
phones slated to ship in European, Asian and Latin American markets
during the second half of 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/qy2k6
http://www.sonyericsson.com
http://www.m-buzz.com
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Report: 45% of "Heavy" Gamers Are
Between Ages 6 and 17
Port Washington, N.Y. - A new report from market research
firm NPD Group finds that, contrary to popular belief that
"hardcore" gamers are in the 18-34 demographic, in actuality 45% of
heavy gamers are between the ages of six and 17. In addition, 21% of
heavy gamers are female, contrary to most marketing that caters to a
predominantly male audience. The report also noted that so-called
"heavy" gamers represent just 3% of the total game playing
population. "Heavy gamers can be critical to a title or retailer's
success since they are the market leaders, but focusing on this
segment entirely is ignoring a much broader consumer base and larger
revenue potential," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier.
http://tinyurl.com/o6n2w
http://www.npd.com
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Office of National Drug Control
Policy Posts Videos on YouTube
San Mateo, Calif. - Hoping to reach more of America's
tech-savvy youth, the White House Office of National Drug Control
Policy (ONDCP) on Tuesday became the first federal cabinet agency to
post videos on popular video sharing site YouTube. The ONDCP has
begun posting videos on the site of anti-drug advertising, national
drug policy announcements and other exclusive content. John Walters,
the director of ONDCP and President Bush's "Drug Czar," said that
the move is an effort by his office to "remain effective
communicators in this new information age." Taking advantage of "new
media" technology is nothing new for ONDCP. In early 2005, the
office launched the first official blog for a cabinet-level agency,
and it also posts podcasts of speeches, commentary from public
health officials and audio of anti-drug events.
http://www.youtube.com/ONDCP
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
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Amazon's CustomFlix Launches CD
on Demand Service for Indie
Musicians
Santa Cruz, Calif. - CustomFlix, a unit of Amazon.com that
provides on-demand distribution of CDs and DVDs, announced on
Tuesday the launch of a new CD on Demand service for independent
musicians and record labels. CustomFlix will manufacture and ship
CDs as customers place orders from either CustomFlix or Amazon.com.
Santa Cruz, Calif.-based CustomFlix recently launched a similar DVD
on Demand service for independent filmmakers.
http://tinyurl.com/k2pqe
http://www.customflix.com/AudioCD
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Disney Introduces Mix Max
Portable Video Player
Burbank, Calif. - Disney on Tuesday introduced a new
portable media player that plays full-length movies from Buena Vista
Home Entertainment on plug-and-play memory cards. Designed for the
pre-teen market, the Disney Mix Max will be offered in several
colors and sell for less than $100 when it ships in October. The
device features a 2.2-inch color LCD display and 512MB of internal
flash memory, and supports Windows Media digital rights management
-- meaning it can download music from services like Yahoo Music.
Initial movie titles available Disney Max Clip memory cards for
$19.99 will include "High School Musical," "Confessions of a Teenage
Drama Queen" and "Lizzie McGuire," The Disney Mix Max is the
company's second foray into portable digital media players. Launched
in the fall of 2005, the Disney Mix Stick plays music albums from
Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records on plug-and-play memory
cards.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060919/20060919005459.html?.v=1
http://www.disneyshopping.com
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Report: Users Migrating to Free
AOL More Quickly Than Expected
New York - A Time Warner executive said on Tuesday that
the media giant's strategy to offer AOL's content for free has
attracted new users at a faster rate than expected, Reuters
reported. Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner's COO, told investors that 40%
of the service's new users were not previously paying subscribers,
adding that AOL's advertising sales have been "very robust." Bewkes
also said that former subscribers were adopting AOL's free services
more quickly than originally predicted, Reuters reported. The
company announced its radical change in strategy in early August,
all-but abandoning its dial-up Internet model in an attempt to
increase its ad revenue by attracting larger numbers of users.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060919/media_timewarner_aol.html?.v=3
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Global Event Information Provider
Eventful Raises $7.5 Million
San Diego - Eventful, a global events information website,
announced on Tuesday that it has raised $7.5 in its second round of
venture capital financing, led by Bay Partners. Previous investors
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Omidyar Network and Esther Dyson also
participated in the round. Founded in 2004, Eventful.com allows
users to discover events in their area, promote events of all types
and create online communities focused on specific events. San
Diego-based Eventful will use the funds to add additional staff in
marketing, business development and engineering.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/nym214.html?.v=44
http://www.eventful.com
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Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Alston & Bird
Ted Casey, SVP, B. Dev & Partner Relations, MusicNet
Gary Cohen, General Manager, AOL Music Now
David Del Beccaro, President, CEO & Founder, Music Choice
Ed Delfs, VP, National Ad Sales, RealNetworks
John Desmond, VP, MediaSentry Services, SafeNet
Jan Eglen, CEO, Digonex Technologies, Inc.
Ben Eisner, Speakerheart
Scott Fedewa, SVP & Exec Producer, Live Nation
Erik Flannigan, VP, Programming, AOL
Dominique-Sébastien Forest, VP, Business Dev, Puretracks
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Albhy Galuten, VP of Digital Media Tech Strategy, Sony Corp
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Brian Garrity, Senior Correspondent, Billboard
Dave Goldberg, VP & GM, Yahoo! Music
Laura Goldberg, COO, Napster
Raghav Gupta, Director, Bus Dev & Strategy, Brightcove
Daneil Harris, CEO, MediaPass Network
David Hyman, CEO & Founder, MOG
Dave Jarworski, Founder & CEO, PassAlong Networks
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Mark Lam, Chairman, Exec Committee & CEO, Live365
Paul Leakas, General Manager, Nielsen Mobile
Gerd Leonhard, CEO, Sonific LLC
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Gerrit Meier, Sr VP & GM, Clear Channel Online Music & Radio
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125,000 Movies Sold on iTunes in Under a Week
Los Angeles - Disney CEO Bob
Iger said on Tuesday that the company has generated $1 million
through sales of 125,000 movies on Apple's iTunes Store, since their
launch on the service less than a week ago, the Associated Press
reported. The company projects that it will see $50 million in
revenue from iTunes movie sales in the first year of the offering.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060919/disney_online_movies.html?.v=3
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Sonific Debuts Free Indie Music
Service for Blogs, Websites
San Francisco -
Sonific announced on Tuesday the
public beta launch of its SongSpots
service, which provides free,
licensed independent music for
posting on blogs, social networks
and personal websites. Users can
create embedded SongSpots flash
players and post them on MySpace,
Xanga, MSN, Blogger, Typepad,
Live365 and other sites. San
Francisco-based Sonific's library of
licensed songs comes from providers
including Cooking Vinyl/Uploadermusic,
CD Baby, Cherry Red Records, Rotator
Records, Blue Flame Records and Big
Fish Media. The company said it
expects to add major label artists
later this year.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/sftu008.html?.v=68
http://www.sonific.com
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Call for Entries: 11th Annual Webby
Awards
New York - The
International Academy of Digital
Arts & Sciences on Tuesday announced
a call for entries for the 11th
Annual Webby Awards. This year will
see the debut of new awards for
interactive advertising and online
film and video. Nominations are due
by Oct. 27. Nominees will be
announced in April, and winners will
be unveiled in June 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/o3pr8
http://www.webbyawards.com
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AOL RED to Sell Excusive Download of
Feature-Length Horror Film "Incubus"
Dulles, Va. -
AOL RED, the company's teen
destination, announced on Tuesday
that it will debut a full-length
horror film starring Tara Reid from
producer Adam Shapiro on its website
on Oct. 31. The "direct-to-download"
film "Incubus" will be available for
download for 30 days, and can be
purchased for $7.99 or rented for a
5-day period for $3.49. DVDs for the
film are slated to go on sale after
the AOL RED exclusive download
offering.
http://webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=20634
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-aol19sep19,1,396868.story
http://www.b-red.com
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WPNI Debuts Mobile Sites for
Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate
Arlington, Va. -
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
(WPNI), the online publishing unit
of The Washington Post, said on
Tuesday that it has launched free
mobile Internet sites for
washingtonpost.com, Newsweek.com and
Slate. WPNI said that it plans to
add additional functionality in the
coming weeks, including more alert
options, email and additional photo
content.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/mediacenter/html/mobile_091906.htm
http://mobile.washingtonpost.com
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TouchTunes Adds Billboard Charts to
Digital Jukeboxes
Lake Zurich, Ill. -
TouchTunes, a maker of digital
jukeboxes for bars and restaurants,
announced on Tuesday that it has
signed an 18-month agreement with
music industry publication
Billboard, to add current Billboard
music charts to its digital
jukeboxes. Using an interactive
touch screen, patrons will be able
to select and play songs directly
from the charts.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/cgm032.html?.v=68
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts.jsp
http://www.touchtunes.com
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Social Networks Tap VideoEgg for
Embedded Videos
San Francisco - VideoEgg, a
provider of Web-based video
publishing technology, announced on
Tuesday that it has partnered with a
number of social networking sites to
allow users to embed video into
their profiles. Users of Bebo,
Dogster, Hi5, AOL, Current.tv and
Tagged can upload videos to VideoEgg,
which are then distributed through a
content delivery network powered by
Akamai to the Flash-based VideoEgg
Player.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/netu031.html?.v=70
http://www.videoegg.com
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Virgin Mobile USA Taps Vibes Media
for Mobile Content Marketing
Chicago - Vibes Media, a
provider of interactive text
messaging and mobile content
marketing programs, said on Tuesday
that mobile virtual network operator
Virgin Mobile USA will use its
services for mobile messaging.
Virgin Mobile will use Chicago-based
Vibes' technology to create
promotional programs using SMS, MMS,
games and other mobile content like
ringtones.
http://tinyurl.com/kvgkw
http://www.vibes.com
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EA Announces "SKATE" Franchise,
Ships "The Godfather" for 360, PSP
Redwood City, Calif. -
Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced
development has commenced on a new
skateboarding game franchise,
"SKATE," which will compete with
rival Activision's popular Tony Hawk
skating games. In development at EA
Black Box in Vancouver, the game
will feature pro skaters including
Danny Way and PJ Ladd, and is slated
for release in 2007 for PlayStation
3 and Xbox 360. Separately, EA said
it has shipped its "The Godfather"
title for Xbox 360 and "The
Godfather: Mob Wars" for Sony PSP to
retailers in North America and
Europe.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060919/20060919005554.html?.v=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060919/20060919005548.html?.v=1
http://www.godfather.ea.com
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BioWare Forms Handheld Game
Development Group
Edmonton, Canada - Video
game developer BioWare announced on
Tuesday the formation of a new
handheld game development group,
which is now hiring at the company's
facilities in Edmonton, Alberta. The
new unit's first project will be a
title for the Nintendo DS,
spearheaded by Dan Tudge, former
president and founder of indie game
developer Exile Interactive.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/to330.html?.v=5
http://www.bioware.com
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Activision Ships "World Series of
Poker: Tournament of Champions"
Minneapolis - Activision on
Tuesday shipped its "World Series of
Poker: Tournament of Champions"
title for Xbox 360, PlayStation 2,
PSP and the PC. The Xbox 360 version
of the game features DigiMask facial
mapping technology, which allows
players to map their face directly
onto their in-game character.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060919/20060919005465.html?.v=1
http://www.activision.com
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MGA Entertainment to Create DVD
Games for "Jeopardy," "Wheel of
Fortune"
Los Angeles - MGA
Entertainment, a maker of toys,
games, dolls and consumer
electronics, announced on Tuesday a
licensing agreement with Sony
Pictures Consumer Products, for the
rights to create DVD games based on
the game shows "Jeopardy" and "Wheel
of Fortune." MGA, which recently
released a DVD game based on "The
$100,000 Pyramid," will ship its
"Jeopardy" DVD game in the spring of
2007, with the "Wheel of Fortune"
title to follow in early 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/n64d9
http://www.mgae.com
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Global Star to Publish "Deal or No
Deal" PC Game
New York - Global Star
Software, a unit of video game
publisher Take-Two Interactive, said
on Tuesday that it has been granted
an exclusive license from Endemol
USA to develop and publisher PC
games based on Endemol's TV game
show "Deal or No Deal." The first
title, which will feature the voice
and likeness of host Howie Mandel,
is slated for release in the fall.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060919/20060919005146.html?.v=1
http://www.globalstarsoftware.com
http://www.nbc.com/Deal_or_No_Deal
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Eidos to Publish "Battlestations:
Midway" in Early 2007
San Francisco - U.K. game
publisher Eidos, a unit of SCi
Entertainment, said on Tuesday that
it will publish "Battlestations:
Midway" in early 2007, to coincide
with the 65th anniversary of the
Battle of Midway. The game is
currently in development at Eidos
Studios, Hungary for Xbox 360 and
the PC.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/sftu070.html?.v=69
http://www.eidos.com
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THQ Ships "Danny Phantom: Urban
Jungle" for DS, GBA
Agoura Hills, Calif. - Video
game publisher THQ on Tuesday
shipped its "Danny Phantom: Urban
Jungle" title for Nintendo DS and
Game Boy Advance to retailers. The
game is based on the Nickelodeon
animated TV series.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060919/latu068.html?.v=74
http://www.thq.com
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/display_show.jhtml?show_id=dan
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