Gaming News in Georgia
gwinnett co. chamber of commerce:
To help grow the industry, the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce is planning a digital entertainment incubator.
seda:
The Savannah Economic Development Authority is offering one year of free rent for digital media companies.
EA:
EA – the $4 billion California-based firm that develops, markets, publishes and distributes some of the industry’s most successful games, such as Madden NFL and The Sims, began collaborating with the Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah campus), where students are working on games for EA Tiburon. The company established a significant Atlanta presence when it bought locally-owned Super Computer International, creator of PlayLinc, an online game browsing and messaging platform. Then last year EA bought Rupture, a social network for gamers, for $30 million, and moved that division to Atlanta.
MMOG's:
The most technically ambitious and anticipated games being developed in Georgia are MMOGs, which can take five years and more than $10 million to develop completely. Kaneva falls into this category. So does Global Agenda, an action game that takes place in a dystopian 22nd century, recently released by Hi-Rez Studios, which employs more than 40 people at its state-of-the-art facility in Alpharetta.
CCP games:
Iceland-based game developer and publisher CCP Games has established its North American headquarters near Atlanta in Stone Mountain, Ga. CCP's titles include the massively multiplayer online game Eve Online™ and future MMOG, World of Darkness™.
kaneva:
Kaneva is an MMOG (massively multi-player online game), a broad description for a vast world of internet-based games in which players can create an animated character, or avatar, that lives in a virtual world, going on quests, buying clothing, building houses, engineering hostile corporate take-overs and so forth.
the cartoon network:
And now, after years of developing games for its website, or the major console-based systems (PlayStation, Xbox, Wii, etc.), the Cartoon Network (CN) has launched its first MMOG. When FusionFall was launched in January, after years of development and beta testing, it had 3 million player accounts.
good egg studios:
Meanwhile, Atlanta-based Good Egg Studios, started in 2007 by Craig and Liz Kronenberger, is hoping to instill social responsibility among the players of Elf Island. Good Egg Studios partners with nonprofits such as Habitat for Humanity, Polar Bears International and Wild Aid, using donations that accumulate as player activity increases to help build houses in the real world, track polar bears or preserve endangered sharks in the Galapagos.
red orchestra:
With Red Orchestra ranking as one of the most played PC Multiplayer games in the world, Tripwire Interactive have proven that with hard work, determination, and great distribution partners, independent game developers can still make a big splash in the games industry.
blue heat:
Blue Heat Games is one of the largest independent mobile-game studios, having developed 36 games for cell phones and wireless devices.
Georgia is host to numerous video game conferences and events throughout the year including SIEGE, GDX, DragonCon, Living Game Worlds and others.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Asante Bradford
Digital Entertainment Liaison
Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office
75 Fifth Street, NW, Suite 1200
Atlanta, GA 30308
(p) 404.962.4056
(f) 404.962.4053
abradford@georgia.org