Virtual Goods Summit adds iPhone panel

The Virtual Goods Summit, a conference dedicated to the virtual goods space in gaming, today unveiled a lineup of new additions to their program, including an iPhone panel, five new speakers and two new lectures. The updated program comes in the wake of new research that projects the virtual goods market will grow to $1 billion in 2009.

In its third year, the Virtual Goods Summit starts on October 29 in San Francisco, CA with the Virtual Goods University, a full day workshop specifically for disseminating information on the fundamentals of virtual goods. On October 30 the Virtual Goods Summit will feature a full day of discussions focused on trends and success stories from individuals at the forefront of digital goods sales and services.

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Impulse weekend deals

Impulse is offering a variety of deals in time for the weekend, cutting the price on games of various quality for a limited time. THQ and Relic’s Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor gets a 50 percent price cut, Capcom’s Street Fighter IV is now $29.99 from $39.99, Circus Empire is available for $6.99 from $9.99, Light of Altair is available for $11.25 from $14.95 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare is now 25 percent off.

You can check out these and other deals by visiting Impulse.com

GamersGate’s latest deals

GamersGate today announced its “Game of the Weekend” promotions and an additional special offer on www.GamersGate.com. Games of the Weekend specials for Oct. 15-18 include Hollywood Pictures 2 - 50 percent OFF, X-Com Complete – 50 percent OFF, and Sword of the Stars Ultimate – $/€ 9.95.

Pre-order specials include Machinarium pre-order at 25 percent OFF and receive 250 bonus Blue Coins, Price Guarantee and Pre-Load), Football Manager 2010 at 20 percent OFF (receive OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast for free with 3,000 bonus Blue Coins with a price guarantee) and Borderlands at 10 percent OFF (receive 250 bonus Blue Coins with a price guarantee).

Next week, starting on Monday Oct. 19th, Elven Legacy and East Indie Company will be 50 percent OFF mainly to celebrate the release of the Elven Legacy: Ranger Expansion Pack on Oct. 20th and the East India Company: Privateer Expansion on Oct. 27th.

Carve Your Own Halloween in Pangya

Ntreev USA has launched the Carve Your Own Halloween on Self Design Items contest now through October 27th for its online golf game Pangya. Fans can celebrate Halloween by using the self design item feature in the game. Once players put their skills to the test, Pangya GM’s will pick their favorite
Halloween themed self design items and award three grand prizes and seven runner up winners. Players can choose any character they would like, but they must submit both a top and bottom by October 27th to be considered. The winners will be announced on October 29th.

Three grand prize winners will be awarded 30,000 Ntreev points and 50 duplicate Self Design items for top and bottom. Seven runners up will receive 10,000 Ntreev points. To start designing and learn more about the game visit Pangya.ntreev.net.

The maps of Mercenary Wars

Some of the maps in Uforia’s upcoming online military themed first-person shooter, Mercenary Wars were revealed today. These virtual war zones will include a museum filled with treasures and an overthrown Mosque (that’s a bit of a risqué setting for any game, let along an FPS), to a restaurant with secret meeting rooms.

You can check out some video and screens of the locales at mercenarywars.uforia.com right now, but descriptions provided by the publisher can be found after the break.

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Another record month of growth for Nexon America

Nexon America seems to be having a great year. In July and August of this year the online gaming company best known for Maple Story’s success in North America posted record revenue growth, with 35 and 32 percent respective increases over the same months last year. The company announced today that September is looking even better with 44 percent growth in revenues compared to last year. The company says that this is particularly good news because September is traditionally a slow month.

Growth in actual game numbers continue to climb as well with Combat Arms reaching the 3 million registered user mark and MapleStory has exceeding 70,000 concurrent users several times in the last few months.

ijji.com hits the 9 million registered user mark

ijji.com announced that its portal has surpassed the 9 million registered member mark. ijji.com is an online portal offering a variety of free to play MMOs and online games. The company’s future line-up of games includes Alliance of Valiant Arms, an Unreal Engine 3-based multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) that transports players to the deserted urban streets of a modern day world war; Soul of the Ultimate Nation, an epic fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG); KARMA: Operation Barbarossa, an MOFPS that takes place in a Europe that hasn’t seen the end of World War II, where the entire continent is under German control and Huxley: The Dystopia, the massively multi-player online first-person shooting (MMOFPS) game that mixes twitch-based FPS game play with the character development of robust MMO games

You can learn more about the company by checking out ijji.com.