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Thursday, March 19, 2009
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Sci Fi Channel Partners with Acclaim For Casual Games

7:00AM Brian Crecente | Sci Fi has partnered with Acclaim Games and ZooKazoo to develop a series of online science fiction and fantasy games for their website. More »
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Sci Fi Channel Readies GameQuest

4:30AM Mike Fahey | The Sci Fi Channel has given producers Granada America and World Cyber Games the green light to produce a new competitive gaming television series, tentatively titled GameQuest. The 8 episode series will bring together 12 gamers, who will compete in a variety of elimination events including both video games and game-themed physical challenges for the title of “best all-around gamer”, with a prize of $100,000 and trips to World Cyber Games events up for grabs. “With two out of every three American households playing video games, it’s clear that this mainstream phenomenon is a perfect arena for the channel’s agenda of broadening the brand while celebrating imagination,” Sci Fi channel president Dave Howe said. More »
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Sci-Fi Merging MMO With TV Show

1:20AM Mike Fahey | Imagine playing a massively multiplayer online game where the actions of you and your friends help shape the storyline of an ongoing television series. That’s exactly what the Sci Fi Channel has planned for 2010, as they work with game developer Trion World Network to create the ultimate merging of the TV and gaming mediums. “A television show that is on once a week isn’t enough. The fans today want the experience to go beyond that,” Howe said. “For example, we can tell them that there will be an alien invasion at a certain place in the game, at a certain time, and to be there with all their friends and be ready. The outcome depends on them. And then that battle will be part of the universe in the show.” More »
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Sci Fi Takes On Mass Effect Tonight

12:55PM Michael McWhertor | The Sci Fi Channel’s special on Bioware’s Mass Effect is airing tonight, giving fence-sitters an extra-half hour’s worth of information—and, no doubt, glowing praise—on the space epic. The special is definitely airing at 11 PM in both the EST and PST time zones, but folks in every region should check their local listings for specific times. The reason? It’s airing in some regions at 8. The first act is available for preview above. More »
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Mass Effect Special Coming to SCI FI One Day Late

2:40AM Mark Wilson | Until Mass Effect is released on Nov. 20th and faces our impossibly high geek expectations, we can only comb over press releases for nuggets of missed goodness. That’s how we realised that we’d completely missed the announcement that SCI FI, who has partnered like crazy with the game already, will be airing the 30-minute special Sci vs. Fi: Mass Effect on launch day. As we willingly inject ourselves with advertisement for a game we could otherwise be playing, we’ll see: …more in-depth information about the game, exclusive interviews and exciting behind-the scenes footage. While this is a really neat idea and many of us will still tune in (via DVR), why wouldn’t SCI FI run the special before we’re playing the game, like on the 19th? Mass Effect on SCI FI [scifi] More »
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