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EA Announces Closed Beta for TheSimsCarnival.com, New Online Community and Gaming Experience From The Sims (Centre Daily Times)

Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced an invitation to participate in a special closed beta at The Sims Carnival(TM), a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims(TM) studio. An innovative online destination, TheSimsCarnival.com empowers members to play, create and share casual games within an online community. This announcement comes out of today's Game Developers ...

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EA Announces Closed Beta for TheSimsCarnival.com, New Online Community and Gaming Experience From The Sims (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Today, Electronic Arts Inc. announced an invitation to participate in a special closed beta at The Sims Carnival™, a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims™ studio.

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GDC '08: Community gaming Gears up Microsoft keynote (GameSpot)

New XNA/Xbox Live program to distribute independent developers' titles unveiled; cross-platform gaming coming to Zune; 1 billion achievements unlocked; Gears of War sequel official.

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Game On! ECD Systems Launches Beta Version of Revolution Games Network for Developers (Centre Daily Times)

ECD Systems(R), the technology innovator for the video game industry, today announced at the Game Developers Conference the beta launch of the Revolution Games Network (www.rgngames.com), a social networking and gaming portal for game developers. Game developers invited to participate in the beta release of Revolution Games Network will now have an online, interactive community through which ...

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GDC Keynote: Microsoft Reveals Community Features, XNA For Zune (Gamasutra)

At its GDC 2008 keynote, Microsoft announced the full range of peer-reviewed community features coming for amateur-made XNA games, a new XNA game player for its media player Zune, and, in a surprise finish, that Gears of War 2 would be coming to the Xbox 360 this November. Former Tiburon founder, EA Canada exec, and finally EA's excutive VP before joining Microsoft as its corporate VP of ...

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