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Play Street Fighter II CE In Your Web Browser

4:00AM Mike Fahey | Celebrating the release of Street Fighter IV for the PC, Capcom and GameTap parent Metaboli have teamed up to deliver Street Fighter II Championship Edition to your browser window. More »

Verizon Launches PC Game Service

1:00AM Brian Crecente | Verizon broadband customers in the Northeast can now sign up for a new games on demand service through the provider. More »

Gametap Partners Up With Microsoft

7:00AM Owen Good | Age of Empires 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Mech Warrior 4 are on the way to the game portal GameTap, following an agreement reached with Microsoft Game Studios, announced last week. More »

GameTap Launches Redesigned Service

7:30PM Luke Plunkett | GameTap has an all-new service! Completely redesigned, from the ground up. And while it stuttered, fell over and died for a little bit at launch, it’s now all good. More »

Re/Visioned Activision 2600 Classics Finally Arrive

4:20AM Mike Fahey | In November of 2007, Gametap promised to continue their Re/Visioned animation series, with comic book talent taking on classic Atari 2600 games. Now those shorts have finally seen the light of day, and they’re brilliant. More »

GameTap Rolls Free Games Back Into The Vault

3:40AM Mike Fahey | After a year spent rolling out premium games for non-playing customers to play for free, online gaming service GameTap has announced that they’re now beginning to roll them right back in. More »

Turner And Metaboli Partner For Global GameTap

2:20AM Mike Fahey | Turner Broadcasting and European digital distribution company Metaboli are teaming up to take GameTap global. A partnership between the two companies will eventually result in Metaboli managing the service in both the U.S. and Europe, managing the GameTap name in the U.S. while being managed under the Metaboli name across the pond. Turner Broadcasting had previously indicated plans to offload the service altogether last month, but now will remain on as an equity investor in the combined company once an initial transition period has passed. “GameTap is a significant strategic addition to our portfolio of established online gaming services in Europe,” said Pierre Gaudet, CEO of Paris-based Metaboli. “The addition of GameTap provides us a foothold in the U.S. market; valuable content and an established brand that integrate well with our existing operations; and a partner with whom we are honored to be in business.” See? All’s well that ends well. Our little GameTap is just growing up and flexing its wings. Let’s just hope we don’t find its broken corpse at the base of the tree when this is all over.

Turner To Unload GameTap

5:40AM Michael McWhertor | Time Warner revealed in its quarterly earnings statement today that GameTap owner Turner has decided to sell off the subscription model gaming service. That release noted an “$US 18 million noncash impairment” — read: write-off — as a result of the decision to lose GameTap. It did not name a buyer. GameTap closed down its editorial division earlier this year to “focus the business on our biggest strength, which is our game catalogue” The service also recently dropped Myst Online from its line-up, lobbing control back to its creators. It most recently launched American McGee’s Grimm. Time Warner Inc. Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results [BusinessWire via Gamasutra] More »