Archives for November, 2009

IAAPA 2009

This week I’ll be in Las Vegas for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions show.   IAAPA should be a very interesting show due to it’s relocation from Orlando FL in the past years.  The ASI/AMOA shows have also combined forces  in Las Vegas due to a decline in the amusement industry recently.  (economic times and arcade closures)

What will happen with dance/music games in the 2010 year?  I guess we’ll have to wait and see the announcements from show floor this year.  I’ll be sure to post about any interesting developments here.

I will be attending the show with Positive Gaming and the Exergame fitness crew this year!  We will be exploring the possibilities of a potential  iDANCE amusement product and meet about the upcoming iDANCE tour. (more info to come)  This does NOT mean we are announcing an arcade product for iDANCE just yet, but we are hopeful to make it possible in the future.

iDANCE nominated for the 2009 European Innovative Games Award

I’m very pleased to announce that iDANCE was recently nominated for a European Gaming award.  We will find out more details after the awards ceremony in Frankfurt Germany tomorrow! (November 6th 2009)

– Eleven games have been nominated for the European Innovative Games Award (EIGA) 2009, another eight titles compete for three sponsorship awards, worth 5,000 euro each.

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Competing for EIGA category “T – Innovative Technology” are “Nintendo DSi” by
Nintendo of Europe, “ICON” by KOMPAN, “CryENGINE 3” by Crytek (all: Germa-
ny), and “Positive Gaming iDANCE” by Positive Gaming AB from Sweden.

More Info can be found at:
http://www.innovative-games.eu/mm/EIGA_2009_Shortlist_PM_4.pdf