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Acclaim Unveils Free Browser-Based Rock Game Rockfree

3:40AM Mike Fahey | Why spend a couple hundred dollars on plastic instruments when you can play a browser-based band rhythm game and play for free? This is the question put forth by Acclaim’s latest online game, Rockfree. Announced today, Rockfree is a browser-based game that will allow players to create their own rock avatar, open their own rock club, and engage in rock battles with up to 7 other players on any stage. Aside from three licensed songs being shown off in the sneak preview being held tomorrow – “Iron Man”, “Fat Lip”, and “Woman” – more than 40 new songs are slated to be produced for the game, with players having the ability to upload their own music as well. “Acclaim Games is excited about offering an online rock game that connects people through music and a multiplayer experience. People don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars to play ROCKFREE, and because it’s free-to-play the entire world can now enjoy a music based game.” says Howard Marks CEO of Acclaim Games. Details are scant, but won’t be for long. Closed beta kicks off tomorrow with the public preview event at http://www.rockfree.com/. Hit the jump for some images and the full release. More »

Acclaim Launches MyDivaDoll, We Feel Pretty

6:00AM Mike Fahey | Times like this I wish they had just flat-out refused to sell former Activision CEO Howard Marks the Acclaim name back in 2005. Acclaim Games has just launched MyDivaDoll, a web-based online game described in the announcement email as “The Game of Attitude, Fashion, & Interior Design”. Create your own diva, buy here clothes, decorate her house, and try not to feel violated with the knowledge that anyone can then click on her, strip her down to her underwear and just…stare. The game also features community voting for best doll and best condo, various mini-games, and a flirting game that I don’t think I even want to understand. I tried to create my own diva, but as you can see from the results I spent far too many DivaBucks on facial tattoos, leaving me no money for pants, a situation I find myself in with alarming regularity. Feel free to hop over there and create your own, but remember to share! MyDivaDoll: Attitude, Fashion & Interior Design [Acclaim] More »

David Perry’s Keynote: Sony Will Never Make Money on the PS3

9:00AM Owen Good | Dontcha just love it when top execs start commenting on someone else’s financials? Opinionated Acclaim chief David Perry ain’t above it, in fact he used his keynote address at the Games Convention Developer’s Conference to declare that Sony will never make real dough off the PlayStation 3, 10-year plan or no. “Because of the cost of making the PlayStation 3 and because they sold it at a loss, Sony basically has pretty much no chance of making money on the PS3, because it’s lost more money than they made during the entire peak of the PlayStation 2 — it’s not going to happen again for Sony”. He went on to say that a PlayStation 4 coming out in the next eight or so years would be a bad idea. “If they release the PlayStation 4 and have an even more expensive console and raise the cost of games by ten dollars, that would not be good”. Thus, Perry said, this 10-year-plan for the PS3 is a long-term bid to wring out as much money to pay for the console’s development, since the pricing and sales so far haven’t done it. “This is going to force them to make the PS3 last longer and they’re kind of positioning to do that”, he said. Perry: “Sony has No Chance of Making Money on the PS3″ [GamesIndustry.biz] More »