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A $3 million settlement by Playdom, the Disney social games studio, sends a pretty clear message that the U.S. Child Online Privacy Protection Act isn't messing around. Violate it, and it will be expensive. More »
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Were you unenthused by the rumor that EA Sports new title would be an NFL-branded trainer for the Wii? You'll like this one better. ESPN.com says the game will be an updated NBA Jam, for the Wii. More »
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Acclaim is hanging out their "Please Pardon Our Re-Development" signs on their MMO The Chronicles of Spellborn, transforming it into a free-to-play, transaction-based game by next year. More »
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Apparently 7 free levels weren't enough to entice players to pay up, as Acclaim raises the free-to-play level cap for The Chronicles of Spellborn to 9.9. More »
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Sci Fi has partnered with Accalim Games and ZooKazoo to develop a series of online science fiction and fantasy games for their website. More »
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Acclaim has begun slowly letting people into the North American closed beta test for The Chronicles of Spellborn, with the beta client now available for those hoping to get in early. More »
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The UMD-free PlayStation Portable 2 is indeed real and could hit as early as this fall, David Perry, chief creative officer at Acclaim, told Kotaku today. More »
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Why spend a couple hundred dollars on plastic instruments when you can play a browser-based band rhythm game and play for free? This is the question put forth by Acclaim's latest online game, Rockfree. More »
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Believe it or not, it's not that copy of The Simpsons: Virtual Bart with the giant 62,790 yen price tag. That particular Sega Genesis (read: Mega Drive) game is a mere $600 and change in U.S. dollars; it's the Japanese copy of Maximum Carnage, at right, another batch of licensed Acclaim schlock that was going for an astounding 98,000 yen at Akihabara's retro gaming den Super Potato. No, that's not a misplaced decimal point, Super Potato is asking just shy of $950 USD for the 16-bit game, outpricing new copies of Space Invaders and Waterworld for the Virtual Boy. More »
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Times like this I wish they had just flat-out refused to sell former Activision CEO Howard Marks the Acclaim name back in 2005. Acclaim Games has just launched MyDivaDoll, a web-based online game described in the announcement email as "The Game of Attitude, Fashion, & Interior Design". Create your own diva, buy here clothes, decorate her house, and try not to feel violated with the knowledge that anyone can then click on her, strip her down to her underwear and just...stare. The game also features community voting for best doll and best condo, various mini-games, and a flirting game that I don't think I even want to understand. More »
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Dontcha just love it when top execs start commenting on someone else's financials? Opinionated Acclaim chief David Perry ain't above it, in fact he used his keynote address at the Games Convention Developer's Conference to declare that Sony will never make real dough off the PlayStation 3, 10-year plan or no. More »
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There's a tidy piece up over on Gamasutra, detailing Howard Marks' plans to resurrect the Acclaim brand name. While the original company went bust in 2006, Marks plans on capitalising on the brand name to leverage titles that are less about cartoony basketball players and more about...pony-based MMOs. Acclaim circa 2008 are all about free-to-play MMOs, nickel-and-diming you with microtransactions, getting into Facebook gaming and capitalising on the rise of the online gaming scene in markets like China. Might not sound like much, but the last time Marks decided to revive the flagging fortunes of a former big name in the industry was in 1991. When he and Bobby Kotick dug Activision out of the grave. That seems to be working out OK. More »
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Back in February, Acclaim chief creative officer David Perry announced the company's "Project Top Secret," a collaborative racing MMO design project where a stand-out entrant would be tapped to head up Acclaim's next MMO project. Today, Acclaim announced it's getting close to conclusion, with one contributor to be chosen and announced by next week. More »
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Get your Wii-remote pitchfork attachments ready and prepare to skewer David Perry—former Shiny boss, now at Acclaim—for his fanboy-riling, hiss-worthy evaluation of Nintendo's console savior, the Wii. More »
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Re-envisioned as a company that created free to download and play MMO games via the internet, Acclaim was well on their way to proving that the digital delivery of large scale games like 9Dragons and BOTS!! could work. And it did - so well that they are now teaming up with SwiftCD.com to offer CD and DVD versions of their popular online games. On the download pages of the aforementioned games you can now order a CD or DVD copy delivered to your house for just $3.99 or $5.99 respectively. More »
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Acclaim is rolling out their new MMO, Dance!, where it's gonna cost you to ride this Soul Train as an African American as one user found out while talking to a moderator: More »
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Acclaim, which has been reborn from run of the mill publisher to massively multiplayer online game development house, has released its latest MMO, DANCE! Online for public consumption. More »
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Following the announcement of Acclaim's Top Secret MMO project was a cloud of confusion. How exactly will a game designed by John Q. Public work? More »
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Ever wanted a chance to crack into the video game development biz? Well, that's what Acclaim and company chief creative officer David Perry are gonna give you. Acclaim's latest massively multiplayer online game project isn't quite an MMO at all. It's a contest designed to weed out the best untapped developer for their next game which just happens to be a real MMO. More »
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Acclaim's has just launched the open beta for their massively multiplayer martial arts extravaganza, 9Dragons. The game is set in ancient China and puts you into the role of a wandering adventurer seeking martial arts training. What's interesting is that the game will be completely free to play once launched, supported by in-game advertising. In ancient China. Why does the movie Kung Pow come to mind? More »
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As a gay albino African-Irishman, you just know I have rhythm. If you've ever read Voltaire, you might recall Candide's description of what happened when Cunegonde stripped naked: every bystander fell to the ground in epileptic seizures of ecstasy. Well, that doesn't happen when I expose my mottled, creepy pink flesh, but when I get naked and hit the DDR mat? Everyone becomes my ho. More »
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Next-Gen has an interesting interview up with the new Acclaim's CEO Howard Marks. I say the new Acclaim, because this current version of the company bears no resemblance to the one that brought us Turok and NBA Jam. This new company is all about Asian MMOs. Not only that, but Marks says they will be making most of their money off of in-game ads and virtual item sales. Sounds like a good chance we'll be reading about another Acclaim Chapter 7 in the near future. —Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=176008&view=rss&microfeed=true The last of Acclaim's assets are going up for auction in the wake of the publisher's bankruptcy, including the rights to such classic titles as Fur Fighters and Iggy's Reckin' Balls. Oddly enough, Acclaim itself has already been resurrected, after a fashion, by the purchase of the name by investors who have already started producing titles under the banner. Corporate law is weird. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=169579&view=rss&microfeed=true Gamers who like a little fist with their sword will be happy to hear that Acclaim is bringing 9Dragons, a MMORPG set in a world similar to that of the fantasy/martial arts game Jade Empire, to the U.S. this year. Already out in Asea, the game will be available for the PC. The Official Site has all the usual hype an official site provides. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=166315&view=rss&microfeed=true Acclaim Games has signed a pact with Massive Incorporated to bring advertising to the world of massively multiplayer games. First out of the gate will be BOTS, a free multiplayer action game. How will ads be incorporated? Will Snapple replace health packs? Will teams compete in the Wal-Mart Apocalypse Stadium? Will players be armed with the new KFC BFG? Only time will tell. More »
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The last vestiges of Acclaims impact on games is up for sale. The down and out company is auctioning off the rights to all 218 of their games. This would be sad if it weren't for the fact that so many of the titles have the words "Mary Kate and Ashley" in them. If I had any clue what the hell I would do with it, I'd out bid the $5,100 offer for the Smash TV rights. I'll buy that for a dollar! More »
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