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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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InstantAction Fortified With Castle As New CEO

7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Browser-based games company InstantAction, responsible for the web-based Tribes and Fallen Empire: Legions, has a new CEO in Westwood Studios founder Louis “Lou” Castle. That’s Lou, pictured to the right of Steven Spielberg playing Boom Blox, by the way. More »
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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InstantAction Brings Tribes To Your Web Browser

2:20AM Mike Fahey | The original jetpack shooter returns, as InstantAction gets ready to debut their web-based version of Starsiege: Tribes at the Game Developers Conference next week. More »
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

GarageGames Readies InstantAction.com

9:00AM Mike Fahey | IAC recently purchased the majority of indie developer and Torque engine creator GarageGames, and today the two companies announce the fruits of that transaction. InstantAction.com will eventually be a completely web-based action gaming portal, dedicated to serving high-quality video games without requiring downloads. I’m imagining it as a sort of Games.com, only instead of Scrabble and Yahtzee there’ll be… well, action games. The companies are introducing new technology that will enable graphically-rich, multiplayer games to run in standard web browsers. You can visit InstantAction.com right now and enter your email address for early public beta access, with the site expected to launch in early 2008. As well as the games portal, InstantAction is also launching a Game Development Fund aimed at encouraging new developers to create games for the internet. Personally I am kind of afraid of this. The last thing ADD boy here needs is quick and easy multiplayer action games at his fingertips. More »
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