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February 28, 2006 (Tuesday)

• The brand Acclaim Entertainment officially returns to the video game industry. (Gamasutra)
• Shanda, a Chinese developer of MMORPGs, announces financial results for the fourth quarter of 2005. Net revenue was 360.5 million RMB ($44.8 million), a 16.3% decrease, and net loss was 538.9 million RMB ($67 million) compared to the Q4 2004 profit of 231.4 million RMB ($28.7 million). (Gamasutra)

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February 27, 2006 (Monday)

• Details of Microsoft's Origami Project are leaked. Halo is among the applications seen running on the portable device. (Gamasutra)
• Sony Computer Entertainment Japan unveiles PlayStation Spot, a service that allows PSP owners to download content and game demos at participating locations. (Gamasutra)

February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leaked prototype photos of Origami Project. ... Halo around the sun at the South Pole (NOAA) A halo (also known as a nimbus or Gloriole) is a ring of light that surrounds an object. ... Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ... The PlayStation Portable (officially PSP), a handheld game console, is a product of Sony Computer Entertainment. ... Demo disc released with a magazine. ...

February 23, 2006 (Thursday)

• Midway announces financial results for the last fiscal quarter of 2005, ending December 31, 2005, as well as the full fiscal year. Net revenues for the quarter were $69.8 million, down 9.6% from 2004. Quarter loss was $37.8 million, compared with profits of $17.6 million in 2004. (Gamasutra)

February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is a video game publisher known for such game series as Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and Spy Hunter. ...

February 22, 2006 (Wednesday)

• Professional gaming league Major League Gaming announces that it has secured an investment of $10 million. (Gamasutra)

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February 21, 2006 (Tuesday)

• Mark "Chip" VanDeVelde, a vice president of Crave Entertainment and a long time video game industry veteran, dies. Crave Entertainment starts a scholarship fund for VanDeVelde's daughter who is then 11 years old. (Gamespot)

February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crave Entertainment was founded in 1997 in Newport Beach, California. ...

February 20, 2006 (Monday)

• David Perry, founder of Shiny Entertainment, has quit the company. Atari, which owns Shiny, recently announced that it would be selling off all its internal development studios. (Gamasutra)

February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Perry should not be confused with Dave Perry, co-commentator on UK Channel 4 video game TV show GamesMaster. ... Shiny Entertainment is a video game developer based in Newport Beach, CA, and is the creator of several hits such as Earthworm Jim and Enter The Matrix. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ...

February 17, 2006 (Friday)

• Atari releases a statement stating that they are restructuring the company "which will result in a worldwide workforce reduction of approximately 20%". (Gamasutra)
• CERO, the Japanese video game rating organisation, will implement a new rating system, starting from March 2006. (Gamasutra)
• NVIDIA releases financial results for the quarter ending January 31, 2006. Revenue was up 12% to $633.6 million, and profits were up 104% to $98.1 million. (Gamasutra)

February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) is the organization that rates video game and computer software in Japan with levels of rating that informs the customer of the nature of the product and what age group it is suitable for. ... Rating is a means of classifying things in different categories. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a major supplier of graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs), graphics cards, and media and communications devices for PCs and game consoles such as the original Xbox and the new upcoming next generation Playstation 3. ...

February 16, 2006 (Thursday)

• A study done by ABI Research indicates that the video game industry should double in size by 2011. (GameDaily BIZ)

February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The computer and video game industry is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video and computer games. ... 2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

February 15, 2006 (Wednesday)

• Nintendo unveils a Opera-based web browser and a TV tuner for the Nintendo DS. (Gamasutra)
• The Chinese government announces new legislation that will prohibit teenagers from entering Internet cafes or karaoke bars. Also, it will be illegal to display "audio and video products and electronic games" that threaten national security or disparage other nationalities or races. Specifically, the entertainment may not "damage China's unification, sovereignty, or territorial integrity". (Gamasutra)
• A bill proposed by Utah Rep. David Hogue that equates violent video games with pornography was passed by a Utah House committee vote. (Gamepolitics)
• Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure has been refused a classification by the Australian Office of Film & Literature Classification (a body of the Australian Government), effectively banning its release in the country. (Gamasutra)

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February 14, 2006 (Tuesday)

• NCsoft, the Korean company behind titles such as Guild Wars and City of Heroes, reported financial results for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2005. Revenues were up 17% to 338.8 billion Won ($346.5 million), a record high for the company. Operating income fell to 76.6 billion Won ($78.3 million), due to rising costs and expenses. (GameDaily BIZ)

February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NCsoft (KSE: 036570) is a South Korean based online computer game company. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... City of Heroes (CoH) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSoft. ...

February 13, 2006 (Monday)

• Ralph Baer, the inventor of PONG, receives the National Medal of Technology "for his work in developing and commercializing interactive video games, which spawned related uses and mega-industries in both the entertainment and education fields". (Joystiq)
• JAMDAT Mobile has announced that its shareholders have approved its acquisition by Electronic Arts for $680 million. (Gamasutra)

February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pong is also a slang term for odour. ... The National Medal of Technology is an honor granted by the President of the United States to inventors and innovators that have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology. ... JAMDAT Mobile, Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

February 10, 2006 (Friday)

• Valve Software reveals that the planned expansion pack for Half-Life 2, previously known as Aftermath, has been renamed Half-Life 2: Episode One, and will be the first in a series of episodic content released on Steam. (GameSpot)
• Blizzard Entertainment officially apologises to a World of Warcraft player over a warning the player received for recruiting other players to a LGBT-focused guild. (Gamasutra)
• Microsoft's Peter Moore states that all Xbox 360 shortages should be over within four to six weeks. (Gamasutra)

February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Valve Corporation is a Bellevue, Washington-based video game developer made famous by its first product, Half-Life, which was released in November 1998. ... Half-Life 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game and the highly anticipated sequel to Half-Life, developed by Valve Corporation. ... Steam is a content delivery, digital rights management and multiplayer system developed by the Valve Corporation. ... Blizzard Entertainment is a PC game developer and publisher. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment. ... LGBT (or GLBT) is an abbreviation used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the worlds largest software corporation, with 2005 global annual sales of close to $40 billion USD and about 64,000 employees in 85 countries and regions. ... Peter Moore Peter Moore is the head of Microsofts Interactive Entertainment Business division, which includes the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles. ... Xbox 360 is the successor to Microsofts original Xbox. ...

February 9, 2006 (Thursday)

• Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime announces several new features for the Nintendo DS, including a new DS download service, and a voice chat feature to be included with Metroid Prime Hunters. The company also has a new overall strategy dubbed Blue Ocean. (GameDaily BIZ), (Gamasutra)
• Microsoft announces that Halo 2 will be released on the PC exclusively for Windows Vista. (Gamasutra)
• Atari publishes results for the third quarter of 2005, with revenue down to $100.8 million, as compared with $156.4 million in the same period in 2004. The company posted a loss of $4.8 million ($19.6 million profit in Q3 2004). Atari CFO Diane Baker resigned, although the company stated this was not directly related to the poor results. (GameDaily BIZ)
• God of War wins seven awards, including Game of the Year, at the 2006 Interactive Achievement Awards. Other winners include Guitar Hero (5 awards), Shadow of the Colossus, and Battlefield 2 (both 3 awards). (Gamasutra)
• 1UP announces the results of its Game of the Year competition. Among the winners are Resident Evil 4 for "Game of the Year", and Nintendogs for "Most Innovative". (1UP).

February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nintendo Corporation, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is translated roughly as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands, do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories; TSE: NTDOY) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese... Reginald Fils-Aime Reginald Reggie Fils-Aime (born in March, 1961) is currently the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nintendo of America. ... The Nintendo DS, (sometimes abbreviated NDS or DS), is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. ... Metroid Prime: Hunters is a first-person shooter adventure game for the Nintendo DS. Part of the Metroid series, the first details of the game emerged at the annual Electronics Entertainment Expo (E³) show in 2004. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the worlds largest software corporation, with 2005 global annual sales of close to $40 billion USD and about 64,000 employees in 85 countries and regions. ... Halo 2 is the sequel to the blockbuster and critically-acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved, and features a newly built game engine and the Havok physics engine, new weapons and vehicles, new multiplayer maps, and a storyline that continues the story begun in Halo: Combat Evolved. ... This computer/video game related article needs cleanup. ... Windows Vista is the scheduled next version of Microsoft Windows operating system, superseding Windows XP. It was previously known by its codename Longhorn, after the Longhorn Saloon, a popular bar (pub) in Whistler, British Columbia (see the other Microsoft codenames). ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses of the abbreviation CFO see CFO (disambiguation) The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a company is the corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of a business (see External Link below). ... This article of for the PlayStation 2 game. ... Game of the Year is a distinction awarded by various magazines and websites to a deserving PC or console game. ... The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has been hosting the Interactive Achievement Awards for video game publication anually since 1998. ... Guitar Hero is a music video game that employs a guitar-shaped peripheral (a miniature Gibson SG) as a primary controller to simulate the playing of an electric guitar. ... // Shadow of the Colossus (Japanese: ワンダと巨像, Wanda to Kyozou; Chinese: Wangda yu Juxiang; translated Wander and the Colossus), is a video game for the PlayStation 2. ... Battlefield 2 is a computer game in which up to 64 players, over the internet, fight in a modern battlefield using contemporary firearms and vehicles. ... 1UP is a gaming site owned and operated by Ziff Davis Media, the same company behind CGW - Computer Gaming World and Electronic Gaming Monthly to name a few. ... Game of the Year is a distinction awarded by various magazines and websites to a deserving PC or console game. ... Resident Evil 4 (Japanese: バイオハザード４, Biohazard 4) is a survival horror game published and developed by Capcom. ... Nintendogs is a pet simulation video game, similar to a virtual pet, for the Nintendo DS portable game system. ...

February 8, 2006 (Wednesday)

• Jack Thompson writes an open letter to U2 singer Bono. Thompson calls for Bono's Elevation Partners, which has been seen as a potential candidate to purchase Take-Two Interactive, to distance itself from any such action. (GamesIndustry.BIZ), (Gamepolitics)
• Capcom publishes results for the third quarter of 2005, showing a 418% increase in profit over the previous year. The company also announces that Resident Evil 4 has sold over 3 million copies. (Gamasutra)

February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jack Thompson John Bruce Jack Thompson (born July 25, 1951) is a Miami, Florida-based attorney at law and is often cited in the media for his views on the effects of obscenity and violence in popular media. ... An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience. ... U2 is an Irish Rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar, keyboards and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ... Bono at a press conference for the film Million Dollar Hotel, 2000 Paul David Hewson (born May 10, 1960), nicknamed Bono Vox, stage name Bono, is the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2. ... Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. ... Capcom (カプコン in Japanese) TYO: 9697 is a leading Japanese developer and publisher of computer and video games. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Resident Evil 4 (Japanese: バイオハザード４, Biohazard 4) is a survival horror game published and developed by Capcom. ...

February 7, 2006 (Tuesday)

• Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, will deliver the keynote address at the 2006 Game Developers Conference. The title of the keynote is Disrupting Development. (Gamasutra)
• EVE Online, the MMOG by CCP Games, reaches 100,000 subscribers. (Gamasutra)
• Multiverse Network, Inc. debuts its Multiverse Platform, a free middleware platform to help independent developers enter the MMOG market. James Cameron, who recently announced his Project 880, is on the Multiverse board of directors. (Gamasutra), (Multiverse), (Busniness Week)
• Sega Sammy announces financial results for the first nine months of its fiscal year, with revenue up 5.4% to 420.8 billion yen ($3.56 billion) and profits of 63.5 billion yen ($537 million), up from 46.2 billion yen ($391 million). (Gamasutra)
• Casuality Europe, a conference on casual games, gets underway in Amsterdam. (Casuality), (GamesIndustry.biz)

February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata Satoru Iwata (岩田聡, Iwata Satoru, born December 6, 1959) is the fourth and current president of Nintendo Company Limited beginning in 2002, succeeding to the long-standing previous president of the company, Hiroshi Yamauchi. ... Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂, ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 ) is an international company originally founded in Japan on November 6, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ... The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual gathering of video game developers. ... EVE Online is a persistent world multiplayer online game set in space. ... A massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. ... Photo of CCP at work CCP (Crowd Control Productions) is known for the MMORPG game EVE_Online. ... In computing, middleware consists of software agents acting as an intermediary between different application components. ... A massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. ... James Cameron from Ghosts of the Abyss James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian-born American film director noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often extremely successful financially. ... Project 880 is one of four films James Cameron is attached to direct. ... You may be looking for the Sega Corporation which is still maintained on its own article. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Coordinates 52°22′N 4°54′E Website www. ...

February 6, 2006 (Monday)

• Wired News unveils its 2005 Vaporware Awards. A number of video game related products are included in the list:

7. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms

6. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

5. StarCraft: Ghost

2. Phantom Game Service

1. Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem Forever had previously won the awards in 2001, 2002, and was given the Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. (Wired)

• Activision announces revenue for third fiscal quarter of 2005 was $816.2 million, while profit dropped 30% from $97.3 million to $67.9 million. The company joins rivals THQ and EA in showing poor results. The company also revealed that an extension of it's Tony Hawk franchise, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, will be released in 2007. (GameDaily BIZ), (Yahoo)

February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wired News, online at Wired. ... Team Fortress 2 (TF2 for short) is the long-anticipated sequel to the original Team Fortress mod for Quake. ... StarCraft: Ghost StarCraft: Ghost is a tactical action game for video game consoles, currently under development by Blizzard Entertainment. ... The Phantom Game Console The Phantom is a controversial video game console currently being developed by Infinium Labs. ... Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a yet-to-be-released first-person shooter video game being developed by 3D Realms, and is the next game in the popular Duke Nukem series. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Activision, Inc. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anthony Frank (Tony) Hawk (born May 12, 1968 in Carlsbad, CA) is widely regarded as the most famous skateboarder of all time, and is considered the pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

February 3, 2006 (Friday)

• Famitsu releases a survey of readers, game developers, and retailers on the level of interest in both next-generation and current game consoles. The results indicate that the PlayStation 3 is first, closely followed by the Nintendo Revolution. (Revolution Report), (Gamasutra)
• James Cameron, director of Titanic, Terminator, and Aliens, announces that his new project, Project 880, will be launched as a MMOG, followed by a motion picture release. (Gamasutra)
• THQ announces the opening of Kaos Studios. The new development studio will be comprised of veterans from Trauma Studios, the company behind Desert Combat and Battlefield 2. (Gamasutra)
• THQ also announced revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2005 of $357.8 million and a profit of $47.6 million, exceeding the company's own expectations. Revenue was down over the same period last year, however. (Gamasutra)

February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Famitsu (commonly abbreviated in Japanese kana to Fami, ファミ通) is a Japanese video game magazine published by Enterbrain, Inc. ... The PlayStation 3 (PS3) (Japanese: プレイステーション3) is Sonys seventh generation era video game console in the market-leading PlayStation series. ... The Nintendo Revolution is the current codename for Nintendos fifth home video game console and the successor to the Nintendo GameCube. ... James Cameron from Ghosts of the Abyss James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian-born American film director noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often extremely successful financially. ... Titanic is an Academy Award winning 1997 dramatic film released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. ... The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction-action film which became the break-through role for former body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... Aliens is a 1986 science fiction movie starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser. ... Project 880 is one of four films James Cameron is attached to direct. ... A massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... THQ Inc. ... Trauma Studios is an American computer game developer company founded in 2003. ... Desert Combat is a popular mod for the hit first-person shooter (FPS) computer game Battlefield 1942. ... Battlefield 2 is a computer game in which up to 64 players, over the internet, fight in a modern battlefield using contemporary firearms and vehicles. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

February 2, 2006 (Thursday)

• Following yesterday's lay-offs, Electronic Arts today announced that net revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2005 was down 11% compared to the quarter in 2004, to $1.27 billion. Profits were down 31% to $259 million . (Gamasutra)
• The winners of the 2006 Imagina Games Awards are announced. The winners:
  • Best Concept: Feel the Magic: XY/XX, by Sonic Team.
  • Best Graphics: F.E.A.R., by Monolith Studios.
  • Best Technology: F.E.A.R., by Monolith Studios.
  • Grand Prix: World of WarCraft, by Blizzard Entertainment. (Gamasutra), (Imagina)
• In response to recent accusations that Activision's title GUN promotes racism and genocide, the company stated "Activision does not condone or advocate any of the atrocities that occurred in the American West during the 1800s. GUN was designed to reflect the harshness of life on the American frontier at that time." ... "It was not Activision’s intention to offend any race or ethnic group with GUN, and we apologize to any who might have been offended by the game’s depiction of historical events which have been conveyed not only through video games but through films, television programming, books and other media." (GamesIndustry.biz)

February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Feel the Magic: XY / XX (in Japan, Kimi no Tame Nara Shineru, translated as I Would Die For You) is Segas Nintendo DS™ launch title. ... Sonic Team logo Sonic Team is a computer and video game second-party developer established in 1988 as SEGA AM8. ... The acronym F.E.A.R. may refer to: F.E.A.R. (single), a single by British musician Ian Brown. ... The acronym F.E.A.R. may refer to: F.E.A.R. (single), a single by British musician Ian Brown. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment. ... Blizzard Entertainment is a PC game developer and publisher. ... Activision, Inc. ... It has been suggested that Racism in Mass Media be merged into this article or section. ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing... A typical archetype, the cowboy, in the Wild West. ... In the United States and Canada the frontier was the term applied until the end of the 19th century to the zone of unsettled land outside the region of existing settlements of European immigrants and their descendants. ...

February 1, 2006 (Wednesday)

• Electronic Arts, the worlds largest game publisher announces that it will cut worldwide staff by 5%. (Yahoo)
• UbiSoft announces that they will publish several Capcom titles on the PC. Titles include Resident Evil 4, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, and Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. (Gamasutra)
• An SEC filing reveals that Gizmondo parent company Tiger Telematics has managed to obtain a $5 million lending agreement with Laffitte Partners. Last week, Gizmondo Europe had filed for bankruptcy. (Gamasutra)