Podcasts about Virgin Interactive

TCW Podcast Episode 233 - Baldur's Gate   When three doctors, a prolific dungeon master, a database programmer, and a writer come together to make video games, you get Baldur's Gate! Often credited with saving the Western RPG, Baldur's Gate became a phenomenal hit, taking full advantage of Microsoft's new DirectX API and Windows 95. With this technology, the team created massive, beautiful maps for players to explore. They began shopping their new Infinity Engine around—drawing attention from top figures at Virgin Interactive—but ultimately secured a deal with Interplay, after an initial rejection. This partnership allowed them to shift from an original pantheon-based RPG to using the Dungeons & Dragons license that Interplay had acquired from TSR. They focused on the Sword Coast and the city of Baldur's Gate—an underdeveloped region of the Forgotten Realms that stayed true to the classic swords-and-sorcery motif. The result was a game that captured the spirit of D&D while delivering the fast-paced action that gamers of the late '90s craved!   VGA Standard Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exFKr-JJtg SSI Gold Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBodtk1JnxQ Dungeon Master (Atari ST): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3UdUWU4j1Y Shattered Steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvyi0l4s-wI&list=PLFTDBbYrcivppTQ8bupD3DQ7U23qTv5cK What is DirectX and Why is it important?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfSk6kwWBuE Why Windows 95 was a big deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCNt0cqTQY Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast: https://archive.org/details/tsr09460addfrvolosguidetotheswordcoast Baldur's Gate Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqFu_enV30&list=PLNU3jYa35cy3gahj5NBKymMB6grIGykOr   New episodes are on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com Alex's book, published Dec 2019, is available at CRC Press and at major on-line retailers: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1     Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RoleMusic - Bacterial Love: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love    Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On this episode of The 3DO Experience, we take some time to discuss the 1995 3DO adaption of the 1993 action film Demolition Man by Virgin Interactive! Proud Member of https://superpodnetwork.com/ Follow us at: https://linktr.ee/Thebarberwhogames Follow Thrak at: https://twitter.com/thrak94 Check out Thraks streams at: https://www.twitch.tv/thrak94

Als einen von drei Lieblingen hatten wir diesen kontroversen Klassiker schon mal dabei. Action Shooter? Echtzeitstrategie? Die einen sagen so – die anderen so. Aber was sagen eigentlich die Macher von Sensible Software dazu?

Welcome to the Woman in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Elizabeth Olson, Director of Marketing Communications at Telltale Games. She is also an entrepreneur and consultant in brand and strategic marketing in her own right. She is known for creative campaigns. She loves giving a product or brand a face and personality and determining and positioning the audience's strategic direction. We kick off by asking Elizabeth to share her career journey and what has led her to where she is today. Was a fine arts student. Study of rhetoric. Radio, journalism, marketing or PR. Fine jeweller. Temp agency. Bookkeeping for Fun Co. Game and Former. Virgin Interactive and working with Disney. PR was not easier. We checked email a couple of times a month. Lion King and Aladin. Reverse engineer. Marketing woman gamers. Then next we ask Elizabeth how her experience in gaming shaped her marketing strategy. And we ask her what was it like with little to no women in gaming tech at the time. Gamergate. Press events took place in strip clubs. Sexual harassment. Emulate or die. Waste of time to be bitter. Diversity efforts. Focus on the stories. Mainstream. Stray. Next, we ask Elizabeth to share her thoughts on the addictive side of games for kids and the pressure on parents about it. Personality and upbringing. It is more complicated than we think. Open world games. Perfect storm. Second Life. Computer in your pocket. Parents in their 80s playing games. Then we ask Elizabeth what advice would give other women that want to enter the gaming industry. Many resources now. Networking with intent - finding community in it. Find your spot of sunshine. Tenacious. Critical thinking and problem-solving. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gloabl-tech-leaders/message

This week on The Free Cheese, it tastes different than Sprite! We return to an age of mascot platformers with one of the most recognized of the era. Then, we wonder what happened to all of the mascots. Finally, we design video games for mascots who never got the green light.

Virgin Interactive aveva pensato per noi un gioco completamente fuori di testa, con serial killer, cannibali e chi più ne ha più ne metta, ma poi arrivò Electronic Arts e tutto naufragò. Scoprite con noi la storia di un titolo divenuto comunque iconico. Volete interagire con il Gruppo di GameRevs? Allora: Mandateci un messaggio vocale su https://anchor.fm/gamerevs Oppure entrate nel nostro nuovo gruppo telegram https://t.me/gamerevs per discuterne direttamente con noi! Ricordate anche che ci potete trovare sul nostro sito http://www.gamerevs.it e su tutti i social dei quali avete i link veloci qui di seguito: Instagram Facebook Twitter Vi ricordiamo anche la pagina dei nostri amici Bit-Elloni a questo indirizzo Facebook: i Bit-Elloni Ed il loro sito web: https://ibitelloni.com/ E ci raccomandiamo: videogiocate, videogiocate, videogiocate! Il nostro podcast fa parte della Lega dei Videogiochi, qui sotto la lista di tutti i canali aderenti al primo grande network d'Italia!! GameRevs - La Voce del Videogiocatore Arcade Story Facciamo DOS Chiacchiere QuantiGigaAllaPanca? Intrappolati nel Retrogaming Retrogaming Lives

Rejoignez toute l'équipe PPG sur le Discord: Cliquez-ici!   On vous y attend pour échanger sur les différentes émissions, le JV en général, les machines, dire du mal de Setzer et même pour jouer en coop!    Rétro PPG :Aladdin Aladdin est un jeu vidéo de plates-formes développé et édité par Virgin Interactive en 1993 sur Mega Drive. Des versions Amiga 1200, DOS, Game Boy et NES ont également vu le jour. Il s'agit d'un des trois jeux réalisés d'après le film du même nom de Walt Disney Pictures, aux côtés de Aladdin pour Super Nintendo et Game Boy Advance, et de Aladdin pour Master System et Game Gear. Emission bimensuelle des vieux briscards de l'équipe PPG dédiée au rétrogaming! Vous pouvez nous retrouver sur Itunes, Ausha, PodCloud, Deezer, Spotify, Amazon Music, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube... Si vous appréciez l'émission et que vous souhaitez nous encourager à poursuivre, merci de laisser un commentaire étoilé sur Apple-podcast…     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pour-une-Poign%C3%A9e-de-Gamers-1909069955882373/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PPGlePodcast  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ppglepodcast/  Ausha:  https://podcast.ausha.co/pour-une-poignee-de-gamers Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ZmfGDokSlv-8dpzENO4BQ  

We are joined l by CEO / President of Intellivision Entertainment TOMMY TALLARICO.Tommy Tallarico is currently in the process of bringing the exciting new home gaming system the Amico Intellivision to market and has had a career within the gaming industry for over 25 years.Tommy Tallarico has worked on the music / soundtracks for several video games in the 90s whilst working for Virgin Interactive, including The Terminator, Aladdin, Cool Spot, The 7th Guest and Global Gladiators.Tommy Tallarico also co-produced, and co-hosted American TV series 'Electric Playground TV', which provided news, previews, and reviews on video games. The program went on to win the 2001 Telly Award for Best Entertainment Cable Program.We talked to Tommy Tallarico about his 25 year career within the gaming industry, the Launch and beyond of the Amico Intellivision and so much more.This is an episode you really don't want to miss. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more exciting guests in the future.A link to all our social stuff is below!https://linktr.ee/Retro.Gaming.Revival Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today Julian 'Jaz' Rignall. A formative character in my life in games during his role as the editor for magazines like Mean Machines and CVG, Julian is the first guest I've spoken to on checkpoints that I did drawings of as a child. As well as reminiscing about the UK magazine scene of the eighties and nineties, we talk about growing up in Aberystwyth and the arcade scene that forged his love of games, his time winning the 1983 computer game championship at Club Xenon in London, his move to America and his tumultuous time working for Virgin Interactive, his role in the nascent IGN, and how through it all his love of games has never faltered.We also hit on why Defender is still so good, he origins of JAZ as a moniker, the soothing charms of Hearthstone and Destiny, how games like Rescue on Fractulus made him realise games could be something truly extraordinary and why his twelve year old self likely wouldn't believe him if he explained a game like World of Warcraft existed."Pick any game you want. I'm good at all of 'em. I've got 97 of 'em. "PATREON - patreon.com/checkpointsiTunes HERE - SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEWTheme song by Samuel BakerArt work by Craig Stevenson

Chris Rausch worked for Neversoft as a Game Designer for Pro Skater 1 through Underground 1. Many will recognize him by one of his nicknames: Team Chicken: think: TC's Roof Gap in School 2. Chris is currently the Creative Director for Nicalis, and previous co-founder of Supervillain Studios. He is a longstanding vet of the games industry, starting as a teenager with Virgin Interactive and 21holding his first lead design role at the age of 19. He played a massive role in the work that brought the Tony Hawk franchise to life with Neversoft. Chris has seen the entire scope of the games industry from high successes of massive triple-a games, to the rough and trying times of a scrappy start-up. Chris also was involved with and interviewed for the Pretending I'm A Superman THPS documentary.

Sure, it was originally a sports game based on ancient pok-ta-pok, and yeah, the story is just Eternal Champion, and okay, I'll admit that the character designs look like the dregs of DeviantArt, but damn, I wish that Thrill Kill actually came out.  On this episode, my good friend, Yeti, joins me to discuss the game that never was, and the game it became.  The game would later be repurposed as Wu Tang: Shaolin Style (which friggin' rips, by the way). Anyone who has ever played the Def Jam wrestling series will surely see a clear influence in the cartoony style and somewhat free roaming nature in the square playable areas.  The franchise had a comic book deal with Malibu Comics at one point. We talk about the infamous E3 98 event, wherein the developers made interesting choices for last-minute replacement for actresses depicting two of the characters.  At one point, Virgin Interactive was literally hucking boxes full of porn into the developer, Paradox's offices to inspire the first ever MA rated game, but then they realize that retailers would not be keen on that sort of thing, and then the tone changed and everything got dialed back.  Things got even worse with trade deals, until one unnamed champion leaked a full version of the game online in a playable Rom.  This week's "Hidden Track" is Next Attempt, with their song 50 or 60hz. www.facebook.com/NextAttemptOfficial ; @nextattemptofficial If you ever have feedback or recommendations on future episodes, please let us know at slasherspod@gmail.com. You can always find us on our social media: Instagram, Twitter, Slasher App: @slasherspod Facebook: /slasherspod Reddit: u/slasherspod https://www.youtube.com/c/slasherspodcast Theme song is I wanna Die by Mini Meltdowns. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ZAk6lUDsaJj8EAhrhzZnh ; https://minimeltdowns.bandcamp.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/slasherspod/support

 Show Notes:On this episode of The Provise Project we talk to the Creative Director of the first 4 Tony Hawk Pro Skaters in the early 2000s Chris Rausch.We dive into the world of building video games from her early days at Virgin Interactive and then the nitty gitty conversation about the juggernaut what was Tony Hawk Pro Skater.Viewer questions were on this podcast with niche details about all the Tony Hawk gamesLinks Mentioned:Tony hawk pro skater gameFollow Us:Include links to where listeners can find you online:Our Apple Link to SubscribeSubscribe on Simplecast PodcastsTwitterInstagram

So another devisive game choice here, Europe vs USA as we go head to head to talk about Cool Spot and Virgin Interactive. Who doesn't love Virgin Interactive?! All of the U.S it seems! (or maybe it's just Dave?) Any thoughts on Cool Spot, Virgin, or what we should play next? Hit us up at on twitter (https://twitter.com/thebiteffect) and contact us about anything, and we mean ANYTHING.

في هذا الحلقه تكلمنا عن انطباعاتنا للعبة FIFA 20 و The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening، بالإضافة للأخبار اللي ناقشناها مثل اعلان موعد صدور The Last Of Us Part II وغيره!ألعاب تكلمّنا عنها وبالترتيب:1- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening2- FIFA 203- Untitled Goose Game4- Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition5- Dragon Quest 1الحضور:احمد الراشدعمر اليوسفمشعل الصويان (لاحقاً)تويتر ألعاب: (@AlaabGaming)twitter.com/AlaabGamingانستجرام ألعاب: (@AlaabGaming)instagram.com/alaabgamingقناة ألعاب في اليوتيوبyoutube.com/c/alaabgamingقناة ألعاب للبث المباشر في تويتش:twitch.tv/AlaabLIVEتابعوا جميل عبد الأحد على قناته في تويتش: www.twitch.tv/jemimaruAlaab Network - A Beautiful Day To Play ~Alaab Main Theme~Publisher: Ahmed AlrashedComposer: Tee LopesNight Trap - Night Trap Theme SongPublisher: Sega, Virgin Interactive, Digital Pictures, Screaming VillainsComposer: Sunny BlueSkyes Martin Lund

Joseph, Josh, and Chris discuss their E3 predictions with special guest Alex Derickson from the PlayStation Forecast. Some are safe, some are interesting, and some are crazy! We also discuss the Sonic movie's delay, a gaming disorder being declared by the World Health Organization, and God of War's success and development. Chris also gives his first impressions on Team Sonic Racing and Josh chimed in with his thoughts on A Plague Tale: Innocence. Disclaimer: SEGA provided a PS4 code for Team Sonic Racing, and Focus Home Interactive gave Joseph a code of A Plague Tale: Innocence. Hosts: Joseph Yaden - twitter.com/josephyaden Josh Nichols - twitter.com/Mrjoshnichols Chris Penwell - twitter.com/PenwellWrites Where you can find us! You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spotify, and Google Play. You can also subscribe through our RSS feed. Support Active Quest on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/activequestpodcast Get our official shirt! https://teespring.com/active-quest-shirt#pid=2&cid=566&sid=front Music LYFO - High -> Lyfomusic – High TeknoAxe - Edge of Tomorrow http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1242 News Sonic Movie Delayed https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2019/05/24/sonic-the-hedgehog-release-date-pushed-to-2020/ Gaming Disorder Declared as Disease According to World Health Organization https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2019/5/25/18639893/gaming-disorder-addiction-world-health-organization-who-icd-11 Playdate Handheld Console https://m.ign.com/articles/2019/05/22/playdate-is-a-bizarre-handheld-gaming-system-coming-in-2020 God of War Surpasses 10 Million Units (quickly touch on) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/god-of-war-ps4-sales-exceed-10-million/1100-6467083/ Call of Duty 2019 is Reportedly Called Modern Warfare https://kotaku.com/the-next-call-of-duty-is-called-modern-warfare-yep-re-1835007019 Main Topic: E3 Predictions Chris Banjo Kazooie and Sora become DLC for Super Smash Bros, Kingdom Hearts 3 and Rare Replay are coming to Switch. Marvel vs Capcom makes a comeback, Infinite gets a makeover with new characters and a new name, Marvel vs Capcom 4. Dragon's Dogma 2 is shown at Xbox's E3 Showcase Josh Final Fantasy VII Remake Episode One Drops June Super Mario 3D World on Switch Alan Wake 2 or Quantum Break 2 Announced Joseph Splinter Cell revealed Fable 4 Resident Evil 3 Alex Microsoft won’t bring a car on stage Just Dance 2020 comes to the Wii. Legacy of Kain returns at SE conference. Developed by Crystal Dynamics What We’ve Been Playing Lately Joseph Resident Evil 4 (Switch) Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright Chris The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Game #10 of 2019) Castlevania Collection Team Sonic Racing Hot Shots Tennis Alex Observation (No Code, Devolver Digital) Everybody’s Golf VR (Clap Hanz, SIE Japan) Unless y’all wanna hear about Virgin Interactive’s Disney games for the Genesis, that’s all I got Josh Life is Strange: Before the Storm Team Sonic Racing (lil bit) A Plague Tale: Innocence (Reviewing for Active Quest. Not finished yet) 

My guest today Julian 'Jaz' Rignall. A formative character in my life in games during his role as the editor for magazines like Mean Machines and CVG, Julian is the first guest I've spoken to on checkpoints that I did drawings of as a child. As well as reminiscing about the UK magazine scene of the eighties and nineties, we talk about growing up in Aberystwyth and the arcade scene that forged his love of games, his time winning the 1983 computer game championship at Club Xenon in London, his move to America and his tumultuous time working for Virgin Interactive, his role in the nascent IGN, and how through it all his love of games has never faltered.We also hit on why Defender is still so good, he origins of JAZ as a moniker, the soothing charms of Hearthstone and Destiny, how games like Rescue on Fractulus made him realise games could be something truly extraordinary and why his twelve year old self likely wouldn't believe him if he explained a game like World of Warcraft existed."Pick any game you want. I'm good at all of 'em. I've got 97 of 'em. "PATREON - patreon.com/checkpointsiTunes HERE - SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEWTheme song by Samuel BakerArt work by Craig Stevenson

In this episode Paul interviews legendary games journalist Julian 'Jaz' Rignall. In over 30 years in the industry Jaz has worked on many well loved games magazines including Mean Machines, Zzap64, C&VG and more. Jaz made the most of massive surge of love for the emerging console market in the late 80's and early 90's which helped make the magazines he worked on so popular. There is plenty of talk about the Commodore 64, Sega Megadrive, Super Nintendo etc. As well as the magazines we discuss his time working in America for Virgin Interactive, Game Pro, IGN and more. We hope you enjoy the show and please leave us an Itunes review if possible. Also you can follow Jaz on Twitter @JazRignall 

Virgin Interactive Entertainment is responsible for some of the most memorable 16-bit era video games. They also created the RTS genre and were sprite creation innovators.

ABOUT MARK WALDREP, PH.D. Founder and President of the Pacific Coast Sound Works in 1989, he developed software tools and techniques that established PCSW as the preeminent digital media service bureau for the most prominent software developers and publishers in the CD-ROM multimedia industry. PCSW clients include Warner New Media, Spectrum Holobyte, Broderbund, Rocket Science, Virgin Interactive, Disney Interactive, and The Learning Company. As a recording and mastering engineer with over 35 years of experience, Dr. Waldrep has repeatedly demonstrated his unique ability to embrace both the technical and creative aspects of the recording industry. In 1994, he was experimenting with technologies and interactive designs that could integrate the record business with the emerging multimedia industry. His innovative idea to place music videos, interviews, liner notes, and web connectivity on a standard audio CD resulted in the birth of the “i-Trax enhanced CD” format. His trademark “i-Trax” appeared on dozens of ECDs released during the early 1990s, including the first ECD from a major label (Rhythm of the Pride Lands/Walt Disney Records), the largest-selling (The Rolling Stones “Stripped/Virgin Records), and the first to have an Internet connection (David Bowie & Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy/Oglio Records).

ABOUT MARK WALDREP, PH.D. Founder and President of the Pacific Coast Sound Works in 1989, he developed software tools and techniques that established PCSW as the preeminent digital media service bureau for the most prominent software developers and publishers in the CD-ROM multimedia industry. PCSW clients include Warner New Media, Spectrum Holobyte, Broderbund, Rocket Science, Virgin Interactive, Disney Interactive, and The Learning Company. As a recording and mastering engineer with over 35 years of experience, Dr. Waldrep has repeatedly demonstrated his unique ability to embrace both the technical and creative aspects of the recording industry. In 1994, he was experimenting with technologies and interactive designs that could integrate the record business with the emerging multimedia industry. His innovative idea to place music videos, interviews, liner notes, and web connectivity on a standard audio CD resulted in the birth of the “i-Trax enhanced CD” format. His trademark “i-Trax” appeared on dozens of ECDs released during the early 1990s, including the first ECD from a major label (Rhythm of the Pride Lands/Walt Disney Records), the largest-selling (The Rolling Stones “Stripped/Virgin Records), and the first to have an Internet connection (David Bowie & Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy/Oglio Records).

Welcome to episode 44 where we're talking about the 1992 Virgin Interactive series, Dune. In this first part we'll discuss the first game by Cryo Interactive. First though, the news: It appears a remake of the 1989 open-world RPG, Midwinter is in the works. SimCity is getting an online mode, despite assurances it wasn't possible. Some changes to the design to the Steam controller are coming. Next, some email links: Sierra Gamers: www.sierragamers.com SierraHelp: www.sierrahelp.com Quest Studios: www.queststudios.com Sierra Music Central: www.sierramusiccentral.com Game Center CX: http://www.sa-gccx.com We then get to the main event, Dune by Cryo Interactive. Next time, we'll be discussing Dune II and its descendants. Enjoy!

This month on Optic Blast! ...News! DC rides Villain's Month to the top of the sales charts....In 3D!Archie's gang tell Co-CEO to "STAY OUT OF RIVERDALE!"Chip and Matt's wild Sex Criminals-SEX PARTY! Previews! Optic Blast previews "PULP" by Jeremy Holt and Chris Peterson! Get your print copies at NYCC, or online at http://gum.co/pulp  Reviews! Zero #1Avengers Arena #14, #15Rat Queens #1Adventure Time #20Listener Mail! @AvidComicGuy asks us to create a contemporary version of this amazing crew!  Opening Music: Level 1 from Silver Surfer(NES)  Silver Surfer - Nintendo NES Virgin Interactive Closing Music: Summer is Gone by Slime Girls Vacation Wasteland $7.99 Slime Girls

No news, a few game impressions (Soul Sacrifice demo among them), and no GOTY BS – mostly just one, long, leisurely, holiday trip through the history of video games – PC and console, Japanese and American -- as we talk through the career of uber-programmer Gregg Tavares, a man who has worked at just about everywhere (Sony, Sega, Microprose, Virgin Interactive, Cinemaware, Naughty Dog, etc.) and on every system (Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, PC, 3DO, M2, Arcade, PSX, PS2, PSP, etc.) at one point or another, and has the stories to prove it. Happy holidays!

The Business of Games as Transmedia Brands - A 101 introduction to the games business and how to approach attaching multi million dollar games through to cheap and cheerful casual games to your multi platform story world. The importance of growing your brand and how upfront community and transmedia brand building is the most important factor in making any kind of success. Also some very surprising statistics surrounding entertainments biggest playground. A presentation from Anthony Reed, CEO of the GDAA, given at the inaugural Screen Australia & StoryLabs digital ignition lab held in Robertson in late November 2011. StoryLab's Podcasts: Recorded and Produced by Gary P Hayes ABOUT Antony Reed (Australia) - a 20-year veteran of the interactive entertainment industry. With global experience in game development and publishing, Antony has been a marketing brain behind some of the world’s biggest games franchises, including Command & Conquer,Baldur’s Gate, Fallout and too many Star Trek titles, and has won numerous awards for his campaigns. In his publishing days Antony worked for industry heavyweights, Virgin Interactive and Interplay Productions, before turning his attention to game development in 2003. Today, Antony is the CEO of the Game Developers’ Association of Australia and is tasked with advocating the interests of the sector to government, educational, financial and commercial institutions as well as heavily promoting Australian game development creativity and talent internationally.