TIBURON, Calif. July 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its newest gaming market study, The Console Hardware Market, and is projecting that Android will drive video gaming on HDTVs for millions of customers by 2017. Ted Pollak, Senior Gaming Analyst at JRR notes [...]
SEATTLE, July 19, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) today announced that US Men’s National Team Captain and Seattle Sounders FC star midfielder, Clint Dempsey, will appear on the North American cover of FIFA 15, sharing the honors with global footbalsl sensation Lionel Messi. The reveal was made at the start of today’s Sounders FC vs. [...]
SAINT PAUL, Minn. July 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Where is the real Lake Wobegon®? On July 4-6, communities across Minnesota – from Ely to Albert Lea – are answering that question as they become Lake Wobegon for one weekend in honor of the 40th anniversary of the show that brought the town to life. As A [...]
TOKYO, July 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–GOODSMILE Logistics & Solutions (GSLS) is launching “CharacterJAPAN,” a free online news service that gathers all the latest official information from Japanese animation studios, publishers, and other popular media industries all in one place for English speaking readers. With more and more countries outside of Japan gaining access to Japanese [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Kabam, the leader in the western world for free-to-play games for traditional players, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced they will partner to co-publish two new mobile games based on The Lord of the Rings and Mad Max. “WBIE has been an amazing partner and we look forward [...]
NEW YORK, June 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Beyoncé Knowles (No. 1) topped Forbes’ 15th annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world’s most powerful celebrities (“The Celebrity 100 List: The Full List,” p. 14) for the first time since she debuted on the list in 2004. LeBron James (No. 2), the NBA’s top player, who just opted [...]
ST. LOUIS, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, Friskies® kicked off its search to find the next Internet cat superstar with the third annual “The Friskies” – the renowned awards for the best Internet cat videos of the year. Does your cat have what it takes to earn one of the coveted catuettes? Now through [...]
BEIJING, June 20, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Tencent, China’s leading online communications, social and entertainment services company, kicked off its World Cup Channel when the games began the morning of June 13 in Brazil, bringing real-time coverage and a host of World Cup-related features to hundreds of millions of Tencent users via their mobile terminals and PCs. [...]
GLENDALE, Calif. June 19, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Disney Publishing Worldwide today re-defines the storytelling experience with the release of “Star Wars Scene Maker,“ a new line of creativity apps that gives kids and Star Wars fans of all ages the tools to create, control, customize, capture and share their own 3D animated Star Wars scenes. Utilizing simple, intuitive [...]
SEATTLE, June 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–In a surprise announcement immediately following its Un-carrier 5.0 launch earlier this evening, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSE: TMUS) unveiled its second groundbreaking move of the day — designed to both unleash music in America and put its LTE network’s data muscle on full display with Un-carrier 6.0. Beginning immediately, T-Mobile’s [...]