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Best Video Game Music of 2012
The Best Video Game Music of 2012: "You press a button, and the beat drops. Forward you fly, straight into the perilous unknown, beats pushing against your eardrums as you push back against the controller. Tempo and harmony swim together, and you lose yourself in the rhythm of play.
2012 has been a fine year for video game music. The finest in recent memory, I'd argue. We've seen soundtracks of every shape, size and tonal color, compositional collections complementing games that have incorporated harmony and discord in ingenious, exciting ways.
Granted, my affinity for this year's music is at least in part because it was the year I started running Kotaku Melodic, and so my awareness of all things musical and video gamey has been at an all-time high."
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Eugene Jarvis still believes in the arcade video game
Eugene Jarvis still believes in the arcade video game - Chicago Tribune: "Jarvis was born and raised in Silicon Valley. Which is a bit like writing: “Oprah Winfrey was born and raised in a Chicago TV studio.” The person matches the birthplace with eerie perfection. Then again, Jarvis, who is responsible for a remarkable number of gaming innovations and an absurdly long list of successful titles stretching four decades, is something of a video game Zelig, a game developer with a Forrest Gump-like ability to have witnessed (or had a hand in) a number of pivotal moments in the history of the medium.
Scrolling games, for instance. Jarvis pioneered scrolling. (Which is like being the first guy to say, “Hey, what would happen if we added pages to this stone tablet?”) Also, dual joysticks — he created dual joysticks.
As a teenager he attended the meetings of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club, which included Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. After college, he was hired by Atari, where founder Nolan Bushnell was pushing innovations (and Jobs was designing a new “Pong” game named “Breakout”). During the pinball era, Jarvis' successes included Atari's “Superman” and Williams Electronics' “Firepower” and “High Speed.” During the early '80s he designed “Defender,” “Stargate,” and “Robotron”; during the late '80s and '90s, he made “Narc,” “Smash TV,” and the “Cruis'n USA” franchise. More recently, he's the guy behind the “Fast and Furious” driving games, the publisher of “Big Buck Hunter” and the developer who recognized, as Hollywood did decades earlier when faced with the threat of television, the physical size of the medium would be key to its survival: Raw Thrills' machines, the industry standard, are loud and gigantic. . . ."
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Video games 2012 - a year in review
Video games in 2012: year in review - Telegraph: " . . . But the true creative success stories were digitally distributed games. Free from the pressures of big business boxed sales, downloadable games are able to provide more diverse pleasures at lower prices. The result is an audience more willing to take a punt on riskier concepts, and developers more willing to provide them. Two were revelatory. Thatgamecompany’s Journey was a staggeringly beautiful rumination on faith and companionship, as you played a robe-swaddled traveller on a pilgrimage across shifting sands, occasionally accompanied by strangers playing the game at the same time. Telltale’s The Walking Dead, meanwhile, provided a masterclass in interactive storytelling, exploring the human condition while casting you as a paternal protector. Every decision you made had real weight behind it, as you became the de facto leader of a ragtag bunch of wonderfully characterised survivors. Elsewhere, the startling emergence of crowd-funding on websites such as Kickstarter may see a major shift in how games are published, and the burgeoning independent scene on both PC and smartphone devices continued to impress. A lower barrier to entry for prospective developers and the ease of distributing games over the internet has paved the way for the second coming of the “bedroom coder”, creating a wildly diverse library of games that may not have the production values of their big-budget cousins, but are full of promise and fresh ideas. It is this kind of enthusiasm and inventiveness that deserted many of the blockbuster games this year. 2013 will mark the arrival of new technology that may decide the future of this young medium. . . ."
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Video Game Violence and Adam Lanza
This is not just going to "go away"--
No, Let's Talk About Video Game Violence: "Adam Lanza was a gamer. This fact has been reported, re-reported, and rehashed to the extent that it's now part of the killer's capsule bio: Young. White. Male. Asperger's. Loner. Gamer. This was predictable — not just that this young, withdrawn man played games, as so many do, or that they were violent, as so many are, but also that this detail would capture people's attention; that the media would repeat it in an insinuating way, and that it would make the public uneasy. My son plays those games. My son loves those games. I play those games. . . . We can let ourselves feel guilty as we play these games, and talk about why that might be. We can allow ourselves to wonder what it means that members of Seal Team Six were disciplined by the Navy for divulging classified information in a video game consultation. We can freely ask if these games have any causal force when it comes to violence, or if they're just a reflection of the culture of a country that's been at war for a solid decade. We can feel free to acknowledge that the thought of truly violent and insane people playing and enjoying games about killing makes the stomach churn, in the same way we might be discomforted to find out a killer enjoyed beloved but violent movies. We can stop obsessing over the media blaming the games industry — it hasn't had real consequences in this country before, and it's doubtful that it will anytime soon — and take a moment to consider what's it's become, and what it should be. . . . .
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No, Let's Talk About Video Game Violence: "Adam Lanza was a gamer. This fact has been reported, re-reported, and rehashed to the extent that it's now part of the killer's capsule bio: Young. White. Male. Asperger's. Loner. Gamer. This was predictable — not just that this young, withdrawn man played games, as so many do, or that they were violent, as so many are, but also that this detail would capture people's attention; that the media would repeat it in an insinuating way, and that it would make the public uneasy. My son plays those games. My son loves those games. I play those games. . . . We can let ourselves feel guilty as we play these games, and talk about why that might be. We can allow ourselves to wonder what it means that members of Seal Team Six were disciplined by the Navy for divulging classified information in a video game consultation. We can freely ask if these games have any causal force when it comes to violence, or if they're just a reflection of the culture of a country that's been at war for a solid decade. We can feel free to acknowledge that the thought of truly violent and insane people playing and enjoying games about killing makes the stomach churn, in the same way we might be discomforted to find out a killer enjoyed beloved but violent movies. We can stop obsessing over the media blaming the games industry — it hasn't had real consequences in this country before, and it's doubtful that it will anytime soon — and take a moment to consider what's it's become, and what it should be. . . . .
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Game developer slams Microsoft
Game promotion and marketing--choose your platform carefully--
Game developer slams Microsoft after hit game pulls in a pittance | News | TechRadar: ". . . . Rubicon criticised Microsoft for not featuring the game prominently on its store because it hadn't been launched for Intel-based Windows 8 machines too. The post, which has now been deleted, read: "Apple regularly promote our apps. Android regularly promote our apps. Even RIM (Blackberry) regularly promote our apps... Microsoft on the other hand clearly do not value us at all." "If other developers get this treatment, that store is going to look mighty bleak for a long time to come. Please take this as a warning. "I know I sound bitter and twisted and there's a reason for that – I actually am. We have wasted a lot of time, resources and money on supporting this platform and all that happened was we got spat on.". . ."
The End is Nigh: The Ten Best Post-Apocalyptic Video Games
Forbes
Video games have been tackling the subject for years now, and there have been a host of titles dealing with what happens in a post-apocalyptic world. Short answer: A lot of mutant shooting. Long answer: Well, you'll have to read on. Check out the ten ...
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Best portable video games of 2012
New York Daily News
The iPad isn't going anywhere. And neither are its games. It's no wonder Sony's excellent PS Vita had such a hard time carving a niche this year, despite splendid hardware, and no wonder the first console of the next generation – the Nintendo Wii U ...
New York Daily News
Washington Post: Video games don't kill people, people kill people
Daily Caller
There is no statistical correlation between video games and violent crime, a Washington Post article argued in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. “Video game consumption, based on international data, does not seem to correlate at all with an increase ...
Daily
Game developer slams Microsoft after hit game pulls in a pittance | News | TechRadar: ". . . . Rubicon criticised Microsoft for not featuring the game prominently on its store because it hadn't been launched for Intel-based Windows 8 machines too. The post, which has now been deleted, read: "Apple regularly promote our apps. Android regularly promote our apps. Even RIM (Blackberry) regularly promote our apps... Microsoft on the other hand clearly do not value us at all." "If other developers get this treatment, that store is going to look mighty bleak for a long time to come. Please take this as a warning. "I know I sound bitter and twisted and there's a reason for that – I actually am. We have wasted a lot of time, resources and money on supporting this platform and all that happened was we got spat on.". . ."
The End is Nigh: The Ten Best Post-Apocalyptic Video Games
Forbes
Video games have been tackling the subject for years now, and there have been a host of titles dealing with what happens in a post-apocalyptic world. Short answer: A lot of mutant shooting. Long answer: Well, you'll have to read on. Check out the ten ...
Forbes
Best portable video games of 2012
New York Daily News
The iPad isn't going anywhere. And neither are its games. It's no wonder Sony's excellent PS Vita had such a hard time carving a niche this year, despite splendid hardware, and no wonder the first console of the next generation – the Nintendo Wii U ...
New York Daily News
Washington Post: Video games don't kill people, people kill people
Daily Caller
There is no statistical correlation between video games and violent crime, a Washington Post article argued in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. “Video game consumption, based on international data, does not seem to correlate at all with an increase ...
Daily
The UK video games cultural test
Insanity--UK Tax Relief for Video Games - GameDev.net
“Up to 4 points may be awarded in respect of the contribution of the video game to the promotion […] of British ... Of course developer can always just pay the full tax as usual, but for the government to test their scruples and tease them with tax ..."
Revealed: The UK video games cultural test | Game Development | News by Develop: "Government details developer eligibility for tax relief The UK government has unveiled details of the cultural test for video games tax relief in its draft legislation released today. To pass the tests, provided below, a game must be awarded at least 16 points to be eligible for tax breaks. Developers will be awarded with four points for instance if at least 75 per cent of the game is set in the UK or another EEA state, and three points if only 66 per cent is set in such locations. Other tests includes how many characters depicted in the title are from the UK or another EEA state, if the game depicts a British story or one which relates to an EEA state, and whether the title helps promote, develop and enhance British culture. One potential point of controversy however could stem from points available for British staff in specific positions. For example, one point could be awarded if the project leader "is a qualifying person". This also applies to the positions of scriptwriters, composers, artists, programmers, designers and the head of department. . . ."
Tim Schafer talks Ümloud! with Game Guy Barry White
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Tim Schafer talks Ümloud! with Game Guy Barry White Iconic video game developer Tim Scahfer sits down with Game Guy Barry White to talk about last week's Ümloud! charity event. tim schafer game guys entertainment KXTV 02:11 ...
2012 a banner year for Canadian video games
CanadianBusiness.com
Developer: Queasy Games (Toronto). It's hard to believe that just two guys could make a PlayStation Vita game that's better than those pumped up by giantdevelopment teams, but that's what Jonathan Mak and Shaw-Han Liem did. Sure, they had some help ...
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Disney Buys South Korean Game Developer Studio Ex (Report ...
By Patrick Brzeski
The new acquisition is Disney's latest grab in an ongoing drive into the lucrative Asian gaming sector.... AWARDS · VIDEO · NEWS · 3D · SMPTE · CES 2012 · E3 EXPO · SXSW · SIGGRAPH · WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT · LES MISERABLES · VIDEO: AGENTS ROUNDTABLE · POWER AUTHORS ... The Walt Disney Company has acquired South Korean game developer Studio Ex, All Things D reported today. The South Korean startup focuses on multiplayer, free-to-play online and ...
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Disney Buys South Korean Game Developer Studio Ex - AllThingsD
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A visit with a video game developer - Chicago Tribune
Video arcade game developer Eugene Jarvis talks about Defender, one of the games he created, while being interviewed at his home in Glenview, Ill. (John J.
Adobe releases updated cloud based game developer tools
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“Up to 4 points may be awarded in respect of the contribution of the video game to the promotion […] of British ... Of course developer can always just pay the full tax as usual, but for the government to test their scruples and tease them with tax ..."
Revealed: The UK video games cultural test | Game Development | News by Develop: "Government details developer eligibility for tax relief The UK government has unveiled details of the cultural test for video games tax relief in its draft legislation released today. To pass the tests, provided below, a game must be awarded at least 16 points to be eligible for tax breaks. Developers will be awarded with four points for instance if at least 75 per cent of the game is set in the UK or another EEA state, and three points if only 66 per cent is set in such locations. Other tests includes how many characters depicted in the title are from the UK or another EEA state, if the game depicts a British story or one which relates to an EEA state, and whether the title helps promote, develop and enhance British culture. One potential point of controversy however could stem from points available for British staff in specific positions. For example, one point could be awarded if the project leader "is a qualifying person". This also applies to the positions of scriptwriters, composers, artists, programmers, designers and the head of department. . . ."
News10.net
Tim Schafer talks Ümloud! with Game Guy Barry White Iconic video game developer Tim Scahfer sits down with Game Guy Barry White to talk about last week's Ümloud! charity event. tim schafer game guys entertainment KXTV 02:11 ...
2012 a banner year for Canadian video games
CanadianBusiness.com
Developer: Queasy Games (Toronto). It's hard to believe that just two guys could make a PlayStation Vita game that's better than those pumped up by giantdevelopment teams, but that's what Jonathan Mak and Shaw-Han Liem did. Sure, they had some help ...
CanadianBusiness.com
Disney Buys South Korean Game Developer Studio Ex (Report ...
By Patrick Brzeski
The new acquisition is Disney's latest grab in an ongoing drive into the lucrative Asian gaming sector.... AWARDS · VIDEO · NEWS · 3D · SMPTE · CES 2012 · E3 EXPO · SXSW · SIGGRAPH · WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT · LES MISERABLES · VIDEO: AGENTS ROUNDTABLE · POWER AUTHORS ... The Walt Disney Company has acquired South Korean game developer Studio Ex, All Things D reported today. The South Korean startup focuses on multiplayer, free-to-play online and ...
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Disney Buys South Korean Game Developer Studio Ex - AllThingsD
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A visit with a video game developer - Chicago Tribune
Video arcade game developer Eugene Jarvis talks about Defender, one of the games he created, while being interviewed at his home in Glenview, Ill. (John J.
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Hotline Miami pirated at extraordinary levels
Hotline Miami pirated at 'extraordinary levels' - GameSpot.com: "2D top-down action game Hotline Miami has been overwhelmed by piracy, publisher Devolver Digital has told Eurogamer. The company also revealed sales statistics to the site, confirming the game has sold 130,000 copies since launch in late October. "It has been torrented to such a staggering level, and given the file size of it, I mean, you can't really be surprised, right?," project manager Graeme Struthers said. "You could pass this thing around on the world's smallest memory stick. So it has been torrented to extraordinary levels.". . . "
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Video Games and Cats
Video Games Would Benefit From Cats - Everyone knows that cats are the kings of the Internet. Put a cat on top of anything and BAM. Instant view-count increase. . . .
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What Investors Look for in a Game Developer
Gamasutra - Features - What Do Investors Look for in a Game Developer?: "All games have title risk. I can't tell you that your game is going to be a hit before it is launched. Frankly, I don't think that you can either. I'm glad that you are excited about your game. You have to be, or you would not be an entrepreneur. But there are plenty of games that flop, and each of those flops was built by a developer who truly believed in that game. The only truth lies in what users think and do when they play a game.
As Unity, Adobe Flash, HTML5, and other tools increasingly get better, it is getting cheaper and easier to build a quality game and launch it in beta. I like to see real data from real users to see if people are playing a game, and returning. In the long term, aggregate time spent playing a game is the best predictor for monetization, so I like to see your early users getting addicted, and coming back again and again.
OMGPOP had many flops before finally hitting on Draw Something. In contrast, the first two games from Supercell, Clash of Clans and Hay Day, both look to be hits. But it is hard to predict in advance. . . ."
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Top-rated Facebook games from 2012
25 top-rated Facebook games from 2012: "Games can be both a welcome and an annoying diversion on Facebook, the world's most popular online social network. This year, Facebook crossed a big milestone – reaching 1 billion active users. Game companies such as "FarmVille" creator Zynga Inc. and Rovio Entertainment Ltd. of "Angry Birds" fame seek to tap into that vast base of users to gain more players for their games.
This week, Facebook Inc. issued a list of the 25 top-rated games that launched on Facebook in 2012. The company says the rankings are based on user ratings and engagement with the games. It's the same methodology that Facebook uses to rank apps in its App Center.
Some of the games are played on Facebook's website, while others are only on Apple Inc.'s iOS or Google Inc.'s Android devices using Facebook's app.
Here's the list:
1. "SongPop" (by FreshPlanet, on Facebook.com, iOS and Android)
2. "Dragon City" (by Social Point, on Facebook.com)
3. "Bike Race" (by Top Free Games, on iOS) . . . "
The virtue of patience: how game design has rediscovered waiting | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "For a while there, games were constantly hurrying us through the experience; now, finally, a new generation is letting us breath and think again . . . The balance between freedom and urgency is a vital one in game design – it is so hard to get right. But I love to wait and to think. I loved the the Surface level in GoldenEye, when you got to creep through the snow, slowly edging toward the guards. I spent many days playing the now largely forgotten real-time strategy title Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, plotting precise strikes on patrolling German troops and then hiding the bodies. It has been fun to discover that feedback loop of surreptitious violence in Dishonored: stalk, strike, stash. It is satisfying because it encompasses two vital gaming mechanics: killing and tidying. I hope we're on the verge of a new era of game design, in which narrative isn't about corridors of action, and in which players truly contribute to the story as agents of change. Time's winged chariot has hurried us long enough; in the next generation, with processors big enough to generate worlds filled with procedural enemies and dynamic events, we should be given time and space to find our own rhythms of play. If you take the time to build a beautiful and elaborate domain filled with clever enemies, the player must be given the chance to drink it all in. Patience is a virtue in life and in game design."
What Do Investors Look for in a Game Developer?
Gamasutra
By The Numbers: The Influence of Board Game Design [5]. Watch Your Game ... Lightspeed Venture Partners venture capitalist Jeremy Liew explains exactly what he other VCs look for in a game developer. Lightspeed has invested in Kixeye, Playdom, Serious ...
What Are The Worldwide Events For Indie Game Developers?
Forbes
Afterwards, they do the award show afterwards showing off that year's best games coupled with thevideo game awards show for AAA games where the pioneers of this industry speak such as Waren Spector, Cliff Blizinski, and so on. IGF Website Entry – If ...
Governments Handing Out Corporate Tax Subsidies for Video Games
Town Hall
The government shouldn't be subsidizing video game development at all - it's a multibillion-dollar industry that has shown consistent growth. The British gaming industry has possibly fallen on hard times. Team17 was a powerhouse game developer in the ...
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Prohibited Game Developer's Access to Private ...
Property Mentor
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Total War developer gets Warhammer video game license
Ars Technica
There are no details yet on what specific direction The Creative Assembly is planning to take with itsvideo game adaptation of the tabletop wargaming franchise, but Studio Director Tim Heaton promised to "[do] the Warhammer universe justice in a way ...
5 tips for buying (great) video games for young players
NBCNews.com
Video game boxes come with ratings designed specifically to help parents know which titles are appropriate for which ages. Games that are most appropriate for the youngest players will be marked with an "EC" for early childhood and "E" for "everyone.
MoMA Curator Finds Hidden Design Gems in Video Games
Wall Street Journal (blog)
So, we've had the smaller video game developers that have been really happy and have given us the code, and instead other companies that will not. So, the second best is to have as good an emulation as possible. And if we cannot have the emulation ...
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The 5 trends that defined the game industry in 2012
Gamasutra
Crowdstar has halted development of social network games to focus on mobile. ... And there's Zynga, whose $210 million purchase of Draw Something developer OMGPOP this year showed just how much the leading Facebook developer thought mobile games were ...
Bally Technology Looks to Acquire Online Poker Game Developer ...
By Rueters
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The virtue of patience: how game design has rediscovered waiting | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "For a while there, games were constantly hurrying us through the experience; now, finally, a new generation is letting us breath and think again . . . The balance between freedom and urgency is a vital one in game design – it is so hard to get right. But I love to wait and to think. I loved the the Surface level in GoldenEye, when you got to creep through the snow, slowly edging toward the guards. I spent many days playing the now largely forgotten real-time strategy title Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, plotting precise strikes on patrolling German troops and then hiding the bodies. It has been fun to discover that feedback loop of surreptitious violence in Dishonored: stalk, strike, stash. It is satisfying because it encompasses two vital gaming mechanics: killing and tidying. I hope we're on the verge of a new era of game design, in which narrative isn't about corridors of action, and in which players truly contribute to the story as agents of change. Time's winged chariot has hurried us long enough; in the next generation, with processors big enough to generate worlds filled with procedural enemies and dynamic events, we should be given time and space to find our own rhythms of play. If you take the time to build a beautiful and elaborate domain filled with clever enemies, the player must be given the chance to drink it all in. Patience is a virtue in life and in game design."
What Do Investors Look for in a Game Developer?
Gamasutra
By The Numbers: The Influence of Board Game Design [5]. Watch Your Game ... Lightspeed Venture Partners venture capitalist Jeremy Liew explains exactly what he other VCs look for in a game developer. Lightspeed has invested in Kixeye, Playdom, Serious ...
What Are The Worldwide Events For Indie Game Developers?
Forbes
Afterwards, they do the award show afterwards showing off that year's best games coupled with thevideo game awards show for AAA games where the pioneers of this industry speak such as Waren Spector, Cliff Blizinski, and so on. IGF Website Entry – If ...
Governments Handing Out Corporate Tax Subsidies for Video Games
Town Hall
The government shouldn't be subsidizing video game development at all - it's a multibillion-dollar industry that has shown consistent growth. The British gaming industry has possibly fallen on hard times. Team17 was a powerhouse game developer in the ...
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Prohibited Game Developer's Access to Private ...
Property Mentor
The Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) this latest initiative has affected many of the game developers business who solely depends on such business such as apps like Wrapp and TripAdvisor. Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) one of the biggest companies in the video ...
Total War developer gets Warhammer video game license
Ars Technica
There are no details yet on what specific direction The Creative Assembly is planning to take with itsvideo game adaptation of the tabletop wargaming franchise, but Studio Director Tim Heaton promised to "[do] the Warhammer universe justice in a way ...
5 tips for buying (great) video games for young players
NBCNews.com
Video game boxes come with ratings designed specifically to help parents know which titles are appropriate for which ages. Games that are most appropriate for the youngest players will be marked with an "EC" for early childhood and "E" for "everyone.
MoMA Curator Finds Hidden Design Gems in Video Games
Wall Street Journal (blog)
So, we've had the smaller video game developers that have been really happy and have given us the code, and instead other companies that will not. So, the second best is to have as good an emulation as possible. And if we cannot have the emulation ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The 5 trends that defined the game industry in 2012
Gamasutra
Crowdstar has halted development of social network games to focus on mobile. ... And there's Zynga, whose $210 million purchase of Draw Something developer OMGPOP this year showed just how much the leading Facebook developer thought mobile games were ...
Bally Technology Looks to Acquire Online Poker Game Developer ...
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Bally Technologies eyes online gaming company
Exclusive: Bally Technologies eyes online gaming co 3G - sources
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Slot-machine maker Bally Technologies is exploring a bid for online pokergame developer 3G Studios, in what would be the latest deal to combine online gambling and casino gaming on social media, said two sources with knowledge ...
The Global Game Jam – Microsoft Studios & Imagine Cup 2013 VIDEO GAME ...
ringsidereport.com (blog)
“The Global Game Jam provides us with the opportunity to support creativity and innovation in thegames industry and reach a new generation of game developers,” said Kent Foster, Director of University Talent Development & Outreach at Microsoft Studios ...
Adobe adds game developer tools to its Creative Cloud
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We are thrilled to announce the release of our first Game Developer Tools in the ... for a recap ...
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The Avant-Game - Game Developer Magazine
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Slot-machine maker Bally Technologies is exploring a bid for online pokergame developer 3G Studios, in what would be the latest deal to combine online gambling and casino gaming on social media, said two sources with knowledge ...
The Global Game Jam – Microsoft Studios & Imagine Cup 2013 VIDEO GAME ...
ringsidereport.com (blog)
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Adobe adds game developer tools to its Creative Cloud
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Adobe today announced it's providing a major update to its Creative Cloud service: the inclusion of itsGame Developer Tools. For the time being, the free membership to the cloud will include Adobe Scout, the pofiling tool that was previously ...
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Adobe Delivers New Game Developer Tools in Creative Cloud ...We are thrilled to announce the release of our first Game Developer Tools in the ... for a recap ...
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The Avant-Game - Game Developer Magazine
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A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone?
A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone - Businessweek: " A poker game could come with such options as letting players buy a round of virtual drinks for the table, he says. “We can build an experience around the games, with great casual twists that casino makers don’t understand,” he says.
Griffin says casino games are only the beginning for social game developers. At a recent hackathon, designers showed titles that included raising a horse in a fashion similar to FarmVille-type games, and then paying to enter a race against other players’ horses. “Real money resets everything and creates a level playing field,” Griffin says. “This is not an incremental change. This is really a tectonic shift.”"
MoMa in NYC declares video games art, plans exhibit to include Pac-Man, the ...
Examiner.com
To prepare for the video game art and design exhibit, the curators consulted with “scholars, digital conservation and legal experts, historians, and critics,” according to AnimeNewsNetwork.com. It's intended to preserve and exhibit video game art as a ...
Examiner.com
Zynga shares slide after privileged status with Facebook ends
Northumberland Today
The corporate logo of Zynga Inc, the social network game development company, is shown at its headquarters in San Francisco in this April 26, 2012 file photo. Game provider Zynga Inc slashed its 2012 outlook and quarterly results badly missed Wall ...
Sunday Sidebar: Meet Daniel Jacobsen and David Baumgart from Gaslamp ...
Video Game Writers
We had some contractors as well, a business development guy, a sound guy, a web guy, a couple of others. As far as the making of the game, though, with the exception of the sound, it was David, myself and Nicholas (Vining, Lead Programmer). We grew...
Video Game Writers
Game developer ponders whether art can ever be as good as ...
By Andrew Webster
The question of whether games can be considered art is an ongoing debate, but one developerwonders whether the question should actually be the other way around. In a refreshingly satirical look at...
The Verge - All Posts
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER ... - Daily Mail
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after exclusive ... game companyrevealed an exclusive deal to develop Facebook's games was set to expire. ..... EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: 'I'm not happy being that thin': Katherine Jenkins ...
2012 In Games - Game Developer Magazine
The past year of video games in three stories. Due to the ... -this article was originally published in the December issue of Game Developer Execution at E3 ...
Being a game developer, as a business, has more in common to ...
If you like playing video games but would hate running a taco truck, you should probably not get into business as a game developer. n.b. This is broadly true of ...
MoMa in NYC declares video games art, plans exhibit to include Pac-Man, the ...
Examiner.com
To prepare for the video game art and design exhibit, the curators consulted with “scholars, digital conservation and legal experts, historians, and critics,” according to AnimeNewsNetwork.com. It's intended to preserve and exhibit video game art as a ...
Examiner.com
Zynga shares slide after privileged status with Facebook ends
Northumberland Today
The corporate logo of Zynga Inc, the social network game development company, is shown at its headquarters in San Francisco in this April 26, 2012 file photo. Game provider Zynga Inc slashed its 2012 outlook and quarterly results badly missed Wall ...
Sunday Sidebar: Meet Daniel Jacobsen and David Baumgart from Gaslamp ...
Video Game Writers
We had some contractors as well, a business development guy, a sound guy, a web guy, a couple of others. As far as the making of the game, though, with the exception of the sound, it was David, myself and Nicholas (Vining, Lead Programmer). We grew...
Video Game Writers
Game developer ponders whether art can ever be as good as ...
By Andrew Webster
The question of whether games can be considered art is an ongoing debate, but one developerwonders whether the question should actually be the other way around. In a refreshingly satirical look at...
The Verge - All Posts
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER ... - Daily Mail
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after exclusive ... game companyrevealed an exclusive deal to develop Facebook's games was set to expire. ..... EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: 'I'm not happy being that thin': Katherine Jenkins ...
2012 In Games - Game Developer Magazine
The past year of video games in three stories. Due to the ... -this article was originally published in the December issue of Game Developer Execution at E3 ...
Being a game developer, as a business, has more in common to ...
If you like playing video games but would hate running a taco truck, you should probably not get into business as a game developer. n.b. This is broadly true of ...
How The Video Game Industry Was Launched 40 Years Ago
How The Video Game Industry Was Launched 40 Years Ago... Thanks To ...
Techdirt (blog)
But one bit that might be interesting to folks around here: this game, which nearly everyone agrees launched the entire video game industry (now pushing $80 billion per year), was based on infringement. Actually, it looks ... Other developers, big and ...
Wii U review
Telegraph.co.uk
It was the Wii that, for many, catapulted video games to the heart of the living room. Its motion-control revolution appealing to those who had never played a video gamebefore with an easy to understand concept: swing the remote, and your character on ...
Telegraph.co.uk
What will a video games industry run by Apple look like?
Australian Macworld (blog)
“Upon approval of the game concept and successful evaluation of the developer, thegame creators work closely with the Arcade team on everything from game design and testing to ratings, localisation and certification. Notice the casual air that Canessa...
Australian Macworld (blog)
Video Games Embrace the Permanence of Death
Patheos (blog)
However, if you know that your character can be reborn after even the nastiest and most gruesome of demises — if there's no sense of danger or loss — what does that do to a video game's potential for drama, storytelling, and emotional effect ...
LA Game Space Aims to Explore the True Potential of Games
G4 TV (blog)
It's a video game space," he explained. "I think mainstream studios and developerswill play just as big a role as the indie developers." And though he doesn't want it to turn into yet another glorified launch party venue, he said that triple-A ...
G4 TV (blog)
LA Game Space Helps Video Games Grow Up
Forbes
More than helping fledgling developers get into the industry it wants to create a hot bed of creativity that redefines what a video game is — something more cultural, engaging, socially aware, something more grown up maybe? This kind of rhetoric was ...
Guillermo Del Toro's Horror Video Game 'inSane' May Have Found A New ...
Geeks of Doom
Unlike his massive R-rated H.P. Lovecraft project, At the Mountains of Madness, which still seeks a new home as he finishes work on his upcoming blockbuster, Pacific Rim, it appears that the video game, titled inSane, may already have a new home ...
Geeks of Doom
Skrillex releasing video game
10News
Hitmaker SKRILLEX is set to launch his own video game. The electronic dance music superstar teamed up with developer Jason Oda to create Skrillex Quest, which is set to the 24 year old's music and requires players to fight off a technology virus or ...
10News
Meet Loot Crate, a New Hollywood Startup That Sends You Video Game Swag
LA Weekly (blog)
Meet Loot Crate, a Hollywood-based startup that's a subscription service for boxes of tech and video game-themed stuff. ... L.A. has an amazing collection of advisors, entrepreneurs [and] developers, [who are] important to our specific marketing. As ...
LA Weekly (blog)
Battlefront III Died Just Inches From the Finish Line
Escapist Magazine
But a recent interview by gamesTM with Steve Ellis, co-founder of the game's developer Free Radical Design, gives the story of Battlefront III an even more tragic twist. Along with revealing a few... Earlier this year a lengthy gameplay video was ...
Norman Reedus & Michael Rooker Confirmed for The Walking Dead Video Game
ComingSoon.net
Activision and developer Terminal Reality announced today that actors Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker will reprise their roles as Daryl and Merle Dixon for the upcoming game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. In the game, players assume the role of ...
Video game sequels must stay innovative while maintaining signature styles
SRU The Online Rocket
This brings me to my first video game series, one of the many that are changing the landscape of digital entertainment: Call of Duty. The Call of Duty series has been around since 2003, and back then the game didn't bring nearly as much ... With San ...
GameFly enters the world of mobile game publishing with Writer Rumble
tuaw.com
GameFly is a company that works like Netflix for video games -- you give them a subscription fee every month, and in return, they send you out a video game at a time, which you can send back when you're done to get another. It's a very popular service ...
UK games industry "in trouble" if it can't recruit more women, says trade body
The Guardian (blog)
"If we are to satisfy the growing diversity of the UK population who play games, then we need diverse creators with different stories to tell, different perspectives to bring to creative products to appeal to a diverse game playing audience". ... "Our ...
Why Video Games Want to Look Like Movies—Not Real Life
The Atlantic
Working on their latest, Crysis 3, they incorporate lens flares -- a visual phenomenon we only experience in movies and photos -- and bring movement to every detail of the world in the game. "The whole thing needs to feel very alive," one developer ...
The Atlantic
Video game firms iEntertainment, Great Outdoors merge
WRAL Tech Wire
Cary, N.C. — Cary-based iEntertainment, a developer of video games such as WarBirds and other combat simulation titles, is merging with Great Outdoors, LLC. As part of the merger ... He also has been involved in development of numerous outdoors games.
Indie Game Legends Will Judge Two-Day Game Creations in the 2012 Indie ...
Complex.com (blog)
It can take years for a team of hundreds to create a single video game—or it can take two days for a small indie team to do the same. It's all about context, right? In the 2012 Indie Speed Run, the context is that teams of one to four developers will ...
Complex.com (blog)
3 Lessons In Game Design, From A Cutting-Edge Developer
Co.Design
You probably haven't heard of the Vienna-based indie game studio Broken Rules. But with just five full-time staff (and three part-timers), it's managed to become one of a handful of exclusive developers to have a launch title on Nintendo's Wii U. A ...
Co.Design
A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone
Businessweek
With interest in social games showing signs of waning—the number of video game players in the U.S. declined by 5 percent in the last year, according to researcher NPD Group—Zynga and other developers don't want to wait. Betable, funded by ... Paul ...
The Epic Perfection of Halo 4 [REVIEW]
Men's Fitness
When the game veers away from being a first-person shooter—as it does when you hop into a vehicle like a battle mech—it's a seamless transition., and best of all, none of these missions feel tacked on, even a potentially risky foray into flight ...
Museum of Modern Art Adding Video Game Collection in 2013
Game Rant
In addition to deciding which games to display, the Museum also had the difficult task of figuring how best to encapsulate the experience of each video game either through interactivity, a brief demo, or a guided tour (created by the developer). Games ...
Game Rant
Charles Huang: Big-Screen Gaming From a Phone
Businessweek
As the PlayStation (SNE), Wii, and Xbox (MSFT) lose market share to smartphones and tablets,video game developers face problems, too. Playing ... Although that flopped, too, they kept the name and moved into game-hardware development. The Huang ...
Blizzard Developer Talks StarCraft II and eSports
PCWorld
The game publisher and developer brought the best StarCraft II gamers in the world together to award a true global champion. That honor went to PartinG. Blizzard also used the event to give attendees a look at the much-anticipated expansion, Heart of ...
Humble THQ Bundle released amid the companies financial troubles
Examiner.com
The Humble THQ Bundle still follows the normal Humble Bundle outline: you can give money to thedeveloper, charities, the Humble Bundle staff, or a mixture of the three. The games themselves are well worth a few dollars, but they can all be had (save ...
Red Storm Sponsors Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Tournament
MPOGD.com
... Creative Director for the Carolina Games Summit. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person video game published by Ubisoft and jointly developed by Ubisoft Paris, Red Storm Entertainment, and Ubisoft Bucharest. ... "Red Storm is ...
Jenn Savedge: Cheesy video game teaches young girls how to be socialites
Luray Page Free Press
A new video game called Upper East Side Makeover wants to teach your little girls how to be backstabbing socialites. According to the video game website, Upper East Side Makeover is aimed at girls ages 8-15 who must complete tasks including exfoliation ...
Luray Page Free Press
Exclusive DLC will kill your franchise, learn from Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Gaming Examiner
Exclusive titles can sometimes be a hot-topic during video-game discussions. I personally understand the reasoning and the benefits that exclusive titles can bring ... Sony did however, and the deal brought three amazingly creative titles to ...
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after ...
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after exclusive deal ..... Britney Spears steals the show in sultry new dance video for will.i.am's new ...
Deadpool Bugle: Interview with Deadpool Video Game Developer ...
Interview with Deadpool Video Game Developer Terry Spier. Posted at: ...TV has posted a ...
HeroEngine 2 Empowers Indie Game Developers' To Focus on ...
HeroEngine 2 Empowers Indie Game Developers' To Focus on Creativity and Game Design Idea Fabrik Unveils New Cutting-edge Features to its Popular ...
MoMA Video Game Collection Sees New York Museum Of Modern Art Embrace ...
Huffington Post
Designed in a pixel art style, the creator spent four years working on this 2D-game, conceived in three dimensions. Using the language of early video game styles, "Rez" is spare, to the point and noted for the music that's sparked when a player ...
10 Unintentionally Creepy Video Game Characters
WhatCulture!
When a video game is being made, design is crucial, to ensure that on a basic aesthetic level, agame is going to appeal to the target audience and seem appropriate. For various reasons, the following characters just didn't suit their purposes; the ...
2013 Is 10th Aniversery of NASCARs Greatest Video Game!
Beyond the Flag
NR2003 was released by Papyrus Design Group and is a racing game released for the PC only. What makes the game so great are nurmurous things. For startrers the games physics are absalutly stunning. When a car flips it barrell rolls EXACTLY like race ...
Follow @sobeq
Techdirt (blog)
But one bit that might be interesting to folks around here: this game, which nearly everyone agrees launched the entire video game industry (now pushing $80 billion per year), was based on infringement. Actually, it looks ... Other developers, big and ...
Wii U review
Telegraph.co.uk
It was the Wii that, for many, catapulted video games to the heart of the living room. Its motion-control revolution appealing to those who had never played a video gamebefore with an easy to understand concept: swing the remote, and your character on ...
Telegraph.co.uk
What will a video games industry run by Apple look like?
Australian Macworld (blog)
“Upon approval of the game concept and successful evaluation of the developer, thegame creators work closely with the Arcade team on everything from game design and testing to ratings, localisation and certification. Notice the casual air that Canessa...
Australian Macworld (blog)
Video Games Embrace the Permanence of Death
Patheos (blog)
However, if you know that your character can be reborn after even the nastiest and most gruesome of demises — if there's no sense of danger or loss — what does that do to a video game's potential for drama, storytelling, and emotional effect ...
LA Game Space Aims to Explore the True Potential of Games
G4 TV (blog)
It's a video game space," he explained. "I think mainstream studios and developerswill play just as big a role as the indie developers." And though he doesn't want it to turn into yet another glorified launch party venue, he said that triple-A ...
G4 TV (blog)
LA Game Space Helps Video Games Grow Up
Forbes
More than helping fledgling developers get into the industry it wants to create a hot bed of creativity that redefines what a video game is — something more cultural, engaging, socially aware, something more grown up maybe? This kind of rhetoric was ...
Guillermo Del Toro's Horror Video Game 'inSane' May Have Found A New ...
Geeks of Doom
Unlike his massive R-rated H.P. Lovecraft project, At the Mountains of Madness, which still seeks a new home as he finishes work on his upcoming blockbuster, Pacific Rim, it appears that the video game, titled inSane, may already have a new home ...
Geeks of Doom
Skrillex releasing video game
10News
Hitmaker SKRILLEX is set to launch his own video game. The electronic dance music superstar teamed up with developer Jason Oda to create Skrillex Quest, which is set to the 24 year old's music and requires players to fight off a technology virus or ...
10News
Meet Loot Crate, a New Hollywood Startup That Sends You Video Game Swag
LA Weekly (blog)
Meet Loot Crate, a Hollywood-based startup that's a subscription service for boxes of tech and video game-themed stuff. ... L.A. has an amazing collection of advisors, entrepreneurs [and] developers, [who are] important to our specific marketing. As ...
LA Weekly (blog)
Battlefront III Died Just Inches From the Finish Line
Escapist Magazine
But a recent interview by gamesTM with Steve Ellis, co-founder of the game's developer Free Radical Design, gives the story of Battlefront III an even more tragic twist. Along with revealing a few... Earlier this year a lengthy gameplay video was ...
Norman Reedus & Michael Rooker Confirmed for The Walking Dead Video Game
ComingSoon.net
Activision and developer Terminal Reality announced today that actors Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker will reprise their roles as Daryl and Merle Dixon for the upcoming game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. In the game, players assume the role of ...
Video game sequels must stay innovative while maintaining signature styles
SRU The Online Rocket
This brings me to my first video game series, one of the many that are changing the landscape of digital entertainment: Call of Duty. The Call of Duty series has been around since 2003, and back then the game didn't bring nearly as much ... With San ...
GameFly enters the world of mobile game publishing with Writer Rumble
tuaw.com
GameFly is a company that works like Netflix for video games -- you give them a subscription fee every month, and in return, they send you out a video game at a time, which you can send back when you're done to get another. It's a very popular service ...
UK games industry "in trouble" if it can't recruit more women, says trade body
The Guardian (blog)
"If we are to satisfy the growing diversity of the UK population who play games, then we need diverse creators with different stories to tell, different perspectives to bring to creative products to appeal to a diverse game playing audience". ... "Our ...
Why Video Games Want to Look Like Movies—Not Real Life
The Atlantic
Working on their latest, Crysis 3, they incorporate lens flares -- a visual phenomenon we only experience in movies and photos -- and bring movement to every detail of the world in the game. "The whole thing needs to feel very alive," one developer ...
The Atlantic
Video game firms iEntertainment, Great Outdoors merge
WRAL Tech Wire
Cary, N.C. — Cary-based iEntertainment, a developer of video games such as WarBirds and other combat simulation titles, is merging with Great Outdoors, LLC. As part of the merger ... He also has been involved in development of numerous outdoors games.
Indie Game Legends Will Judge Two-Day Game Creations in the 2012 Indie ...
Complex.com (blog)
It can take years for a team of hundreds to create a single video game—or it can take two days for a small indie team to do the same. It's all about context, right? In the 2012 Indie Speed Run, the context is that teams of one to four developers will ...
Complex.com (blog)
3 Lessons In Game Design, From A Cutting-Edge Developer
Co.Design
You probably haven't heard of the Vienna-based indie game studio Broken Rules. But with just five full-time staff (and three part-timers), it's managed to become one of a handful of exclusive developers to have a launch title on Nintendo's Wii U. A ...
Co.Design
A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone
Businessweek
With interest in social games showing signs of waning—the number of video game players in the U.S. declined by 5 percent in the last year, according to researcher NPD Group—Zynga and other developers don't want to wait. Betable, funded by ... Paul ...
The Epic Perfection of Halo 4 [REVIEW]
Men's Fitness
When the game veers away from being a first-person shooter—as it does when you hop into a vehicle like a battle mech—it's a seamless transition., and best of all, none of these missions feel tacked on, even a potentially risky foray into flight ...
Museum of Modern Art Adding Video Game Collection in 2013
Game Rant
In addition to deciding which games to display, the Museum also had the difficult task of figuring how best to encapsulate the experience of each video game either through interactivity, a brief demo, or a guided tour (created by the developer). Games ...
Game Rant
Charles Huang: Big-Screen Gaming From a Phone
Businessweek
As the PlayStation (SNE), Wii, and Xbox (MSFT) lose market share to smartphones and tablets,video game developers face problems, too. Playing ... Although that flopped, too, they kept the name and moved into game-hardware development. The Huang ...
Blizzard Developer Talks StarCraft II and eSports
PCWorld
The game publisher and developer brought the best StarCraft II gamers in the world together to award a true global champion. That honor went to PartinG. Blizzard also used the event to give attendees a look at the much-anticipated expansion, Heart of ...
Humble THQ Bundle released amid the companies financial troubles
Examiner.com
The Humble THQ Bundle still follows the normal Humble Bundle outline: you can give money to thedeveloper, charities, the Humble Bundle staff, or a mixture of the three. The games themselves are well worth a few dollars, but they can all be had (save ...
Red Storm Sponsors Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Tournament
MPOGD.com
... Creative Director for the Carolina Games Summit. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person video game published by Ubisoft and jointly developed by Ubisoft Paris, Red Storm Entertainment, and Ubisoft Bucharest. ... "Red Storm is ...
Jenn Savedge: Cheesy video game teaches young girls how to be socialites
Luray Page Free Press
A new video game called Upper East Side Makeover wants to teach your little girls how to be backstabbing socialites. According to the video game website, Upper East Side Makeover is aimed at girls ages 8-15 who must complete tasks including exfoliation ...
Luray Page Free Press
Exclusive DLC will kill your franchise, learn from Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Gaming Examiner
Exclusive titles can sometimes be a hot-topic during video-game discussions. I personally understand the reasoning and the benefits that exclusive titles can bring ... Sony did however, and the deal brought three amazingly creative titles to ...
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after ...
Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER CENT after exclusive deal ..... Britney Spears steals the show in sultry new dance video for will.i.am's new ...
Deadpool Bugle: Interview with Deadpool Video Game Developer ...Interview with Deadpool Video Game Developer Terry Spier. Posted at: ...TV has posted a ...
HeroEngine 2 Empowers Indie Game Developers' To Focus on ...
HeroEngine 2 Empowers Indie Game Developers' To Focus on Creativity and Game Design Idea Fabrik Unveils New Cutting-edge Features to its Popular ...
MoMA Video Game Collection Sees New York Museum Of Modern Art Embrace ...
Huffington Post
Designed in a pixel art style, the creator spent four years working on this 2D-game, conceived in three dimensions. Using the language of early video game styles, "Rez" is spare, to the point and noted for the music that's sparked when a player ...
10 Unintentionally Creepy Video Game Characters
WhatCulture!
When a video game is being made, design is crucial, to ensure that on a basic aesthetic level, agame is going to appeal to the target audience and seem appropriate. For various reasons, the following characters just didn't suit their purposes; the ...
2013 Is 10th Aniversery of NASCARs Greatest Video Game!
Beyond the Flag
NR2003 was released by Papyrus Design Group and is a racing game released for the PC only. What makes the game so great are nurmurous things. For startrers the games physics are absalutly stunning. When a car flips it barrell rolls EXACTLY like race ...
Follow @sobeq
Xbox Co-Creator On How Apple Has Changed The Video Game Landscape
Xbox Co-Creator On How Apple Has Changed The Video Game Landscape
Gameranx
Ed Fries, in an interview conducted by Game Informer, the man who helped to create the original Xbox and is currently helping to shape the Ouya, recently touched upon Apple's influence on the current video game landscape. Specifically, how the old ...
Gameranx
Gameranx
Ed Fries, in an interview conducted by Game Informer, the man who helped to create the original Xbox and is currently helping to shape the Ouya, recently touched upon Apple's influence on the current video game landscape. Specifically, how the old ...
Gameranx
TorrentFreak
... free versions too, leading to game developers losing their work and valuable time. Around for more than a decade, GameMaker is a neat piece of software that gives users the ability to create decent video games without prior game programming knowledge.
Women use Twitter to expose video game industry sexism
NBCNews.com
Hundreds of female game developers, designers, publicists, journalists and other professionals are in the midst of detailing the sexism they've experienced in the workplace, encountered while playingvideo games and found in the gaming community at ...
Video Game Industry Has Twitter Powwow on Sexism With #1ReasonWhy
Slate Magazine (blog)
There is no doubt that sexism plagues the video game industry. Last night, however, members of the community—including players, journalists, and game developers—began an incisive, honest conversation about the issue, using the hashtag #1reasonwhy.
Slate Magazine (blog)
F2P MMO GunSwords launches into beta
News10.net
FILED UNDER; Game Guys · Game Guys: PC. One Button Studio, a small independent video game developer, today announced the beta launch of GunSwords, a free-to-play online squad-based, turn-based strategy (TBS) game for PC and Mac. ... said Dmitry ...
News10.net
ZombiU developer diary shows asymmetrical multiplayer
GamingBolt (blog)
... the game. The game has been receiving mixed reaction from critics but overall it seems it's agame a lot of people like. Its multiplayer features are detailed in this video where the game developers talk about the design choices they implemented in ...
Hit List Q&A: Jesse Schell, Schell Games CEO
Joystiq
on Nov 28th 2012 3:00PM. 0. In the "Hit List" from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, thevideo game industry's top talents describe their current gaming addictions, their most anticipated releases and more. This week: Schell Games CEO Jesse ...
Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney's 2nd Promo Video Posted
Anime News Network
The Japanese game developer Level 5 began streaming a the second promotional video for the upcoming Layton-kyōju vs. Gyakuten Saiban (Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney) Nintendo 3DS crossover game on Wednesday. The video features some of the ...
Angry Birds defectors latest to score in Finnish game investment boom
Gamasutra
The Finnish video game industry has grown 57 percent year-on-year, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. In addition to Boomlagoon and Supercell, Shadow Citiesdeveloper Grey Area, mobile game ad network Applifier and Rovio itself have also ...
Gamasutra
#1reasonwhy tweets expose sexism in the video-game industry
Straight.com
Overnight, video-game developers took to Twitter to provide a myriad of answers to this question. Using the #1reasonwhy hashtag, women spoke out about the sexist attitudes and treatment and even sexual harassment they have faced in work situations.
Straight.com
Bungie's Destiny video game details leak online
BBC News
It has a 10-year exclusive arrangement with the development studio. Activision has previously told investors that the game would be "genre-defining" and prove to be one of its two "largest growth opportunities" over coming years, alongside the Call of ...
Marvel Super Hero Deadpool Comes To Life In Activision Video Game
Forbes
Fans won't have to wait for Hollywood to figure Deadpool out because Activision has acclaimed developer High Moon Studios (the studio behind the excellent Transformers games) working on an original video game. If you're not familiar with this super ...
Forbes
Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation: A Race Conscious Game Review
Politic365
I had hoped that Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation the first video game to ever feature a minority woman as a main playable character was a sign of progress, instead it was one of the most offensive and blatant examples of just how little things have ...
Dungeonland - New video developers' diary released
News10.net
According to Paradox Interactive, there are two good reasons to watch the latest Critical Studio developer diary. Firstly, the video provides players with an in-depth examination and explanation of PC game Dungeonland's Dungeon-Master mode, laying bare ...
News10.net
'#1ReasonWhy' Hashtag Explains Why There Are Few Female Games Developers
Forbes
Caryn Vainio, a video game UI/UX designer, tweeted, “Because I'm still referred to as a 'girl' gamer or developer, instead of a woman. At age 40.” - Mattie Brice, game critic and designer, tweeted, “I had to make my own game in order to see someone ...
Ogmento President Brian Selzer Explains Why Halo 4 King Of The Hill Is A ...
Forbes
Mobile video game company Ogmento has focused on augmented reality and location-based gaming for years. The developer made the headlines earlier this month when its Halo 4 King of the Hill game, which was developed in conjunction with Mountain ...
Forbes
James Bond game developer hit by major redundancies - Latest ...
British game developer Eurocom has taken a major blow announcing a number of redundancies as part of ... Video: Our Australian Wii U is here, time to unbox it ...
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BioWare Start A Losing Game With "Star Wars: The Old Republic"?
Did BioWare Start A Losing Game With "Star Wars: The Old Republic"?
Fast Company
One year ago, video-game developer BioWare was prepping for the release of its big-budget massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. In our December 2011/January 2012 story, "A Force to Be Reckoned With," both analysts and ...
Fast Company
Skybound Entertainment Founder Robert Kirkman Talks Comics, Video Games ...
Forbes
Thanks to a hit AMC TV series that continues to break audience records, a critically acclaimed episodic video game from Telltale Games, a hit Facebook game and a new prequel game from Activision, as well as new comics, The Walking Dead is the hottest ...
Forbes
Nintendo integrates Hackensack-based company's video technology into Wii U ...
Businessweek
Vidyo's open platform, making it easier for developers to incorporate the technology into their applications, and its lower costs were part of the reason Nintendo sought out Vidyo to be added to its first new video game system in six years, Noble said ...
OBJE: Digital Gaming Leads Sales Growth
DailyFinance
... for the launch. According to the recently published Q3 2012 Games Market Dynamics: U.S. report leading market research company The NPD Group, consumer spending on digital video gamecontent generated $1.40 billion between July and September ...
Minecraft is headed to the Raspberry Pi!
TG Daily
If you're a fan of the popular video game Minecraft and just happen to have a little Pi developerboard sitting around, well, you'll be particularly glad to hear the title will soon be available to install and play on your uber-mini Raspberry. So, if ...
Playstation game brings together cast of characters
UNLV The Rebel Yell
All-Stars does look similar, and there is no doubt that it pulls inspiration from Smash Bros. in its leveldesign, but the actual gameplay is quite different. ... It forces player interaction, and adds an element of risk/reward, since level one supers ...
Wrong path leads to right strategy for local game developer ...
This assertion comes from local game developer Ara Shirinian whose own story. ... Shirinian acted as design lead for this sidescrolling adventure game ...
Gamer To Game Developer Multiplayer Video Tutorial Series on YouTube
Like most hard of hearing people, I don't have any interest in videos and can't use them since there's no subtitles, so additional text based material or subs is a ...
Video Game Developer Interview by WorldIrish on SoundCloud
Video Game Developer Interview by WorldIrish on SoundCloud ...
Listen to Video Game Developer Interview by WorldIrish: WorldIrish's Eamonn Bell caught with Owen of bitSmith Games, Edward, Mariano and Zafar from Bright ...
Listen to Video Game Developer Interview by WorldIrish: WorldIrish's Eamonn Bell caught with Owen of bitSmith Games, Edward, Mariano and Zafar from Bright ...
Social game developer Outplay Entertainment reels in USD4m ...
The firm develops social games, and counts among its offering Word Trick and Bubble ... Videogame sales in brick-and-mortar US retail outlets fell 11% year ...
Gamasutra: Sina Mackay's Blog - EEG in video games
I'd like to discuss the possibility of integrating brain waves into video games. I should mention that I'm not an expert game developer, I'm a researcher working ...
Game Developer - The Student Room
Video interview: how Retail Ready People trains young people to run their own shops ... So can somebody tell me what exactly game developer learn in Uni?
Game Developer - Android Application Development, iOS Applicatio ...
Thank you for your interest in the Game Developer - Android Application ... 3+ years of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design development experience ...
Lawsuit: Video Game Developer Blizzard Faces Consumer Fraud ...
Los Angeles, CA: A consumer fraud class action lawsuit has been filed against video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its parent company, ...
What they don't tell you about being a game developer | Hacker News
If you like playing video games but would hate running a taco truck, you should probably not get into business as a game developer. n.b. This is broadly true of ...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821152
Gamasutra - News - Can video games judge the creativity of players?
No existing video game could. Even fellow human beings are sometimes very poor at assessing another person's ideas -- as developers, you probably know ...
www.gamasutra.com/.../Can_video_games_judge_the_creativi...
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – VIDEO GAME NEWS
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Aled Lewis has put his own personal appreciation of video gaming into the pieces. He commented: “I was thrilled to be asked to design three pieces for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – I've always been an avid video game player and a huge fan of ...
New Game Development and Design Program Available at CDI College in Toronto
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Nov 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- In response to the growth of Canada's video game industry, CDI College is launching the Game Development and Designprogram at its campus in Toronto. "Canada's video game industry ...
Colleges Offering Degrees in Video Game Design
The video game design industry was a $20 billion sector in 2012. A number of colleges, art schools and technological schools offer coursework and degrees in ...
The firm develops social games, and counts among its offering Word Trick and Bubble ... Videogame sales in brick-and-mortar US retail outlets fell 11% year ...
Gamasutra: Sina Mackay's Blog - EEG in video games
I'd like to discuss the possibility of integrating brain waves into video games. I should mention that I'm not an expert game developer, I'm a researcher working ...
Game Developer - The Student Room
Video interview: how Retail Ready People trains young people to run their own shops ... So can somebody tell me what exactly game developer learn in Uni?
Game Developer - Android Application Development, iOS Applicatio ...
Thank you for your interest in the Game Developer - Android Application ... 3+ years of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design development experience ...
Lawsuit: Video Game Developer Blizzard Faces Consumer Fraud ...
Los Angeles, CA: A consumer fraud class action lawsuit has been filed against video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its parent company, ...
What they don't tell you about being a game developer | Hacker News
If you like playing video games but would hate running a taco truck, you should probably not get into business as a game developer. n.b. This is broadly true of ...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821152
Gamasutra - News - Can video games judge the creativity of players?
No existing video game could. Even fellow human beings are sometimes very poor at assessing another person's ideas -- as developers, you probably know ...
www.gamasutra.com/.../Can_video_games_judge_the_creativi...
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – VIDEO GAME NEWS
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Aled Lewis has put his own personal appreciation of video gaming into the pieces. He commented: “I was thrilled to be asked to design three pieces for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – I've always been an avid video game player and a huge fan of ...
New Game Development and Design Program Available at CDI College in Toronto
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Nov 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- In response to the growth of Canada's video game industry, CDI College is launching the Game Development and Designprogram at its campus in Toronto. "Canada's video game industry ...
Colleges Offering Degrees in Video Game Design
The video game design industry was a $20 billion sector in 2012. A number of colleges, art schools and technological schools offer coursework and degrees in ...
Indie mobile game developer Plain Vanilla Games, to develop an official Twilight Saga mobile game
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 – QuizUp Video Game News
ringsidereport.com (blog)
... QuizUp Video Game News. November 17th, 2012 VinMan. Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE® company, has chosen independent mobile game developer Plain Vanilla Games, to develop an official Twilight Saga mobile game, Twilight Saga QuizUp.
Car Town Streets – VIDEO GAME NEWS & UPDATE
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Cie Games, a successful social game developer and creator of the leading automotive-based Facebook game, Car Town, today announced the global launch of Car Town Streets, now available for free on the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. In Car ...
Video Game Review: Assassin's Creed 3
New York Daily News
This is a different brand of Assassin's Creed game, and you — as the new protagonist Connor — will learn that quickly. The true intentions of the main story take hours — yes, ... As usual, developer Ubisoft Montreal does its homework, crafting two ...
New York Daily News
Forza Horizon – VIDEO GAME NEWS – XBOX 360 UPDATE
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Outlining the extensive post-launch support available in “Forza Horizon,” the video gives Forza fans an inside look at how the developers behind the game continue to build engagement and content for “Forza” fans on the open roads of Colorado. This ...
Talisman Board Game To Roll Out Video Game Version
Gamenguide
Talisman: Prologue. (Photo : Talisman-Game) Talisman board game will launch avideo game in two weeks. Talisman board game will be launching a video game in two weeks said its developer Nomad Games, Eurogamer reported. Nomad Gameswill ...
Gamenguide
Review: Nintendo blows up dual-screen video gaming with Wii U
Newser
Yet the handheld DS, blending one touch-sensitive screen with a slightly larger video display, became a runaway hit. Article continues below. FILE - In this June 5, 2012 publicity file photo provided by Nintendo of America, Katsuya Eguchi, Producer of ...
New 'GTA 5' graphics, lead platform, game length and other details revealed
Examiner.com
The open-world action-adventure video game is set in Los Santos, a fictional city which is based on Los Angeles. It will feature three main playable characters that can be switched. Rockstar North and Rockstar Gamers are the developer and publisher ...
CryEngine 3 SDK Improvements Detailed
GamingBolt (blog)
... CryEngine 3 improvements for developers. It seems the people who have licensed the engine can avail of these features, and they have also released a free development tool. It was also the week where Crytek first released its visually stunning FPS ...
Hulu's New Video Game Channel Lets You Watch All the Latest Trailers
TechnoBuffalo
Clicking on a game will bring up a short description, including developer, genre, platforms and release date. It's not super flushed out yet, but it's a pretty cool destination to see trailers and the like. Perhaps it'll one day become a place Hulu ...
The Game Archaeologist: Steve Nichols' The Realm Online debriefing, part 1
Joystiq
The Game Archaeologist: Can you take us on a quick journey through your personal history as a player and developer leading up to your assignment on The Realm? Stephen Nichols: Sure! I've been making video games professionally for over 20 years now.
Warren Spector, Disney Epic Mickey, and Making Games That Matter
IGN
Most video game luminaries have charisma, but Warren Spector's ability to captivate is innate. ... These ideals are what the man sees as important, and are the design philosophies he'll continue supporting. “And if ... That is what I care about as a ...
IGN
Editorial: On the Rise of Independent Video Game Development
The Trades
This exponential increase in development cost has resulted in a loss of jobs throughout the industry on a regular basis, a sincere lack of risk-taking on a large scale in the mainstream game market, and has led to the rise of independent game design...
The Trades
Date 149 girls at once in new PS Vita game 'AKB1/149 Romance Election'
Bitbag
Just when you thought it was safe to talk about the portrayal of females in video games again, Japan proves us all wrong with this new game from Bandai Namco for PS Vita and PSP. AKB1/149 romance election is the third in a series of pseudo-perverted ...
From NES to WII U: A Look Back at Nintendo Game Consoles
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Game Boy (1989). A brick-like device in its original form, this handheld brought Nintendo's game-development prowess to a small grayscale screen powered by AA batteries. It became the best-selling handheld ... motion-controlled video games. Microsoft ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
State becoming a home for the gaming industry
WWL
NEW ORLEANS -- Video games are nothing new to New Orleans, just ask any gamer who's mastered "Left for Dead 2" or "Assassin's Creed 3." The city has now gone from being a backdrop to a producer of digital media. “So now it's flipped the script a little ...
Nintendo seeks to shake up gaming again
San Jose Mercury News
The touchscreen controller can also serve as a makeshift TV remote control and online videoaggregator for services like Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon Instant Video. (Nintendo cheekily ... The abilities of the GamePad are most notably showcased by Nintendo ...
American Creed
National Review Online
Every video-game company dreams of owning a Money-Printing Annual Franchise — one of those series whose fans will turn out in droves to pay $60 for a fresh game every single year. There aren't many members of this elite club: Call of Duty, Need for ...
The future of the Western role-playing game
Joystiq
Video game tech seems to be getting shinier, faster, and smaller, but I don't see anything potentially disruptive in the way that CD storage was on the horizon. Moreover, I'd say that in general, the pace of change has slowed. Today's games are closer ...
New Wii may do well, but tablets et al threaten game units
Hamilton Spectator
The long-term outlook for the home console and its software isn't so promising as the world's biggest maker of video-game machines faces surging sales of smartphones and tablets, which can give players access to free games. Pressure is mounting ...
Nintendo seeks to shake up gaming again with Wii U
The Associated Press
about it, they say it's going to change the way video games are made and played. "You can't manufacture buzz," ... "Nintendo Land" turns the GamePad into several different tools, such as the dashboard of a spaceship or the ultimate advantage in a game ...
Early Retrospective
GameDev.net (blog)
Plus, I was unsatisfied with some of the functionality of my console game library and ultimately decided to port it to SFML, improving it along the way. Essentially ... But to kick things off, I wanted to share some observations I've made as an amateur ...
OXM Breakdown – how an official Microsoft magazine has challenged the ...
The Guardian (blog)
News sites speculate endlessly – and with sombre gravity – over the latest jingoistic military shooters, while video reports usually consists of re-packaged game trailers and flatteringdeveloper interviews. Believe me, once you've seen one clip of a ...
Studio Tour: Keiji Inafune, legendary Mega Man creator, shows us his HQ
Computerandvideogames.com
In the reception room, near the elevator, a TV screen shows an endless loop of trailers for Yaiba and 3DS game KAIO: King Of Pirates. A display case holds framed artwork for some of Comcept'sgames - including J.J. Rockets, a smartphone game made by ...
Two free DLC characters for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale announced
Examiner.com
But that hasn't stopped developer SuperBot from going ahead and announcing thegame's first two DLC character additions: Kat, the heroine of PlayStation Vita darling Gravity Rush, and Emmett Graves, Starhawk's protagonist. Development on the characters ...
Examiner.com
'New Super Mario Bros. U' Review – A Mario For U
MTV.com (blog)
A new Nintendo console means a new playground for some of the most innovative minds in the video game industry to create new experiences. Keeping gamers glued to their TV's at home and staring down at their Game Boys and DSes out in the wild has ...
MTV.com (blog)
Can Sony and Nintendo's next-gen consoles escape Japan's stifling cultural ...
ExtremeTech
Japan has long been a dominant driving force in the video game industry. Decades ago, western brands like Atari and Coleco did well. After the video game crash in the '80s, Japan really stepped up. Nintendo, Sega, and Sony were really the only ...
ExtremeTech
'State of Decay' brings zombies one step closer to Xbox Live
Examiner.com
Undead Labs also spoke in length about the design philosophy behind making “State of Decay”. Thedeveloper chose to make the game, which is centered on a zombie apocalypse, actually be more about survival than pure combat. That isn't to say that the ...
DmC Devil May Cry Fighting The Power Video Dev Diary
Gamers Hell
We have the second video developer diary for DmC Devil May Cry, a game that sees the team at Ninja Theory joined by key staff from Capcom's R&D division. Set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC will depict a duplicitous world where nothing is ever as ...
Epic Mickey 2: The Power Of Two Review
Gaming Examiner
Everything from Dishonored to God of War: Ascension was targeted, and many people started to agree that video games were indeed becoming increasingly more violent. I'm not going to lie; ... You can always tell when a developer loves the subject matter ...
REVIEW: "Halo 4" Bridges The Gap Between Old And New; Delivers A Classic
Vibe
Now, after developer Bungie Games moved on to create a new IP, 343 Industries attempts to maintain the allure of the iconic franchise with "Halo 4" for the Xbox 360. A more polished presentation than we've ... The first biggest improvement in "Halo 4 ...
Vibe
Team Ninja On Working With Inafune And Making Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Siliconera
... Edge, we asked Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi questions about Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. First revealed through a teaser video, Yaiba is a zombie killing ninja game developed by Comcept, Team Ninja, and Lost Planet 3 developer Spark Unlimited.
Daily iPhone App: Micro Miners combines Lemmings and mining in a cute brew
tuaw.com
Another developer named Jean-Philippe Sarda later decided to take that idea and run with it on Apple's iOS platform, and the result is this game, Micro Miners, out this week on the App Store. You can see the basic gameplay idea in the video below: The ...
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ringsidereport.com (blog)
... QuizUp Video Game News. November 17th, 2012 VinMan. Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE® company, has chosen independent mobile game developer Plain Vanilla Games, to develop an official Twilight Saga mobile game, Twilight Saga QuizUp.
Car Town Streets – VIDEO GAME NEWS & UPDATE
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Cie Games, a successful social game developer and creator of the leading automotive-based Facebook game, Car Town, today announced the global launch of Car Town Streets, now available for free on the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. In Car ...
Video Game Review: Assassin's Creed 3
New York Daily News
This is a different brand of Assassin's Creed game, and you — as the new protagonist Connor — will learn that quickly. The true intentions of the main story take hours — yes, ... As usual, developer Ubisoft Montreal does its homework, crafting two ...
New York Daily News
Forza Horizon – VIDEO GAME NEWS – XBOX 360 UPDATE
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Outlining the extensive post-launch support available in “Forza Horizon,” the video gives Forza fans an inside look at how the developers behind the game continue to build engagement and content for “Forza” fans on the open roads of Colorado. This ...
Talisman Board Game To Roll Out Video Game Version
Gamenguide
Talisman: Prologue. (Photo : Talisman-Game) Talisman board game will launch avideo game in two weeks. Talisman board game will be launching a video game in two weeks said its developer Nomad Games, Eurogamer reported. Nomad Gameswill ...
Gamenguide
Review: Nintendo blows up dual-screen video gaming with Wii U
Newser
Yet the handheld DS, blending one touch-sensitive screen with a slightly larger video display, became a runaway hit. Article continues below. FILE - In this June 5, 2012 publicity file photo provided by Nintendo of America, Katsuya Eguchi, Producer of ...
New 'GTA 5' graphics, lead platform, game length and other details revealed
Examiner.com
The open-world action-adventure video game is set in Los Santos, a fictional city which is based on Los Angeles. It will feature three main playable characters that can be switched. Rockstar North and Rockstar Gamers are the developer and publisher ...
CryEngine 3 SDK Improvements Detailed
GamingBolt (blog)
... CryEngine 3 improvements for developers. It seems the people who have licensed the engine can avail of these features, and they have also released a free development tool. It was also the week where Crytek first released its visually stunning FPS ...
Hulu's New Video Game Channel Lets You Watch All the Latest Trailers
TechnoBuffalo
Clicking on a game will bring up a short description, including developer, genre, platforms and release date. It's not super flushed out yet, but it's a pretty cool destination to see trailers and the like. Perhaps it'll one day become a place Hulu ...
The Game Archaeologist: Steve Nichols' The Realm Online debriefing, part 1
Joystiq
The Game Archaeologist: Can you take us on a quick journey through your personal history as a player and developer leading up to your assignment on The Realm? Stephen Nichols: Sure! I've been making video games professionally for over 20 years now.
Warren Spector, Disney Epic Mickey, and Making Games That Matter
IGN
Most video game luminaries have charisma, but Warren Spector's ability to captivate is innate. ... These ideals are what the man sees as important, and are the design philosophies he'll continue supporting. “And if ... That is what I care about as a ...
IGN
Editorial: On the Rise of Independent Video Game Development
The Trades
This exponential increase in development cost has resulted in a loss of jobs throughout the industry on a regular basis, a sincere lack of risk-taking on a large scale in the mainstream game market, and has led to the rise of independent game design...
The Trades
Date 149 girls at once in new PS Vita game 'AKB1/149 Romance Election'
Bitbag
Just when you thought it was safe to talk about the portrayal of females in video games again, Japan proves us all wrong with this new game from Bandai Namco for PS Vita and PSP. AKB1/149 romance election is the third in a series of pseudo-perverted ...
From NES to WII U: A Look Back at Nintendo Game Consoles
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Game Boy (1989). A brick-like device in its original form, this handheld brought Nintendo's game-development prowess to a small grayscale screen powered by AA batteries. It became the best-selling handheld ... motion-controlled video games. Microsoft ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
State becoming a home for the gaming industry
WWL
NEW ORLEANS -- Video games are nothing new to New Orleans, just ask any gamer who's mastered "Left for Dead 2" or "Assassin's Creed 3." The city has now gone from being a backdrop to a producer of digital media. “So now it's flipped the script a little ...
Nintendo seeks to shake up gaming again
San Jose Mercury News
The touchscreen controller can also serve as a makeshift TV remote control and online videoaggregator for services like Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon Instant Video. (Nintendo cheekily ... The abilities of the GamePad are most notably showcased by Nintendo ...
American Creed
National Review Online
Every video-game company dreams of owning a Money-Printing Annual Franchise — one of those series whose fans will turn out in droves to pay $60 for a fresh game every single year. There aren't many members of this elite club: Call of Duty, Need for ...
The future of the Western role-playing game
Joystiq
Video game tech seems to be getting shinier, faster, and smaller, but I don't see anything potentially disruptive in the way that CD storage was on the horizon. Moreover, I'd say that in general, the pace of change has slowed. Today's games are closer ...
New Wii may do well, but tablets et al threaten game units
Hamilton Spectator
The long-term outlook for the home console and its software isn't so promising as the world's biggest maker of video-game machines faces surging sales of smartphones and tablets, which can give players access to free games. Pressure is mounting ...
Nintendo seeks to shake up gaming again with Wii U
The Associated Press
about it, they say it's going to change the way video games are made and played. "You can't manufacture buzz," ... "Nintendo Land" turns the GamePad into several different tools, such as the dashboard of a spaceship or the ultimate advantage in a game ...
Early Retrospective
GameDev.net (blog)
Plus, I was unsatisfied with some of the functionality of my console game library and ultimately decided to port it to SFML, improving it along the way. Essentially ... But to kick things off, I wanted to share some observations I've made as an amateur ...
OXM Breakdown – how an official Microsoft magazine has challenged the ...
The Guardian (blog)
News sites speculate endlessly – and with sombre gravity – over the latest jingoistic military shooters, while video reports usually consists of re-packaged game trailers and flatteringdeveloper interviews. Believe me, once you've seen one clip of a ...
Studio Tour: Keiji Inafune, legendary Mega Man creator, shows us his HQ
Computerandvideogames.com
In the reception room, near the elevator, a TV screen shows an endless loop of trailers for Yaiba and 3DS game KAIO: King Of Pirates. A display case holds framed artwork for some of Comcept'sgames - including J.J. Rockets, a smartphone game made by ...
Two free DLC characters for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale announced
Examiner.com
But that hasn't stopped developer SuperBot from going ahead and announcing thegame's first two DLC character additions: Kat, the heroine of PlayStation Vita darling Gravity Rush, and Emmett Graves, Starhawk's protagonist. Development on the characters ...
Examiner.com
'New Super Mario Bros. U' Review – A Mario For U
MTV.com (blog)
A new Nintendo console means a new playground for some of the most innovative minds in the video game industry to create new experiences. Keeping gamers glued to their TV's at home and staring down at their Game Boys and DSes out in the wild has ...
MTV.com (blog)
Can Sony and Nintendo's next-gen consoles escape Japan's stifling cultural ...
ExtremeTech
Japan has long been a dominant driving force in the video game industry. Decades ago, western brands like Atari and Coleco did well. After the video game crash in the '80s, Japan really stepped up. Nintendo, Sega, and Sony were really the only ...
ExtremeTech
'State of Decay' brings zombies one step closer to Xbox Live
Examiner.com
Undead Labs also spoke in length about the design philosophy behind making “State of Decay”. Thedeveloper chose to make the game, which is centered on a zombie apocalypse, actually be more about survival than pure combat. That isn't to say that the ...
DmC Devil May Cry Fighting The Power Video Dev Diary
Gamers Hell
We have the second video developer diary for DmC Devil May Cry, a game that sees the team at Ninja Theory joined by key staff from Capcom's R&D division. Set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC will depict a duplicitous world where nothing is ever as ...
Epic Mickey 2: The Power Of Two Review
Gaming Examiner
Everything from Dishonored to God of War: Ascension was targeted, and many people started to agree that video games were indeed becoming increasingly more violent. I'm not going to lie; ... You can always tell when a developer loves the subject matter ...
REVIEW: "Halo 4" Bridges The Gap Between Old And New; Delivers A Classic
Vibe
Now, after developer Bungie Games moved on to create a new IP, 343 Industries attempts to maintain the allure of the iconic franchise with "Halo 4" for the Xbox 360. A more polished presentation than we've ... The first biggest improvement in "Halo 4 ...
Vibe
Team Ninja On Working With Inafune And Making Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Siliconera
... Edge, we asked Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi questions about Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. First revealed through a teaser video, Yaiba is a zombie killing ninja game developed by Comcept, Team Ninja, and Lost Planet 3 developer Spark Unlimited.
Daily iPhone App: Micro Miners combines Lemmings and mining in a cute brew
tuaw.com
Another developer named Jean-Philippe Sarda later decided to take that idea and run with it on Apple's iOS platform, and the result is this game, Micro Miners, out this week on the App Store. You can see the basic gameplay idea in the video below: The ...
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