By Kirk Hamilton
Someday, somewhere, someone will make a video game musical. Legendary game designer Warren Spector hopes it will be him. His latest game, Epic Mickey 2, is something of a video game musical, but it's still not a realization of Spector's ...
Kotaku
YetiZen launches the Innovation Lab, a 20000 square foot games center in the ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
7, 2012 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- YetiZen, a cornerstone of the game development community that organizes the wildly popular San Francisco Game Developer's Workshop series and runs the only games exclusive accelerator program, launched the YetiZen ...
Adult Video Game “Save the World or Not” Hits Market (Trailer Video)
TMR Zoo
To realize a familiar TV/movie-like visual experience, the developers have come up with new “Intelligent Dynamic Video” technology: Live-action HD video – that intelligently and continuously changes depending on the player and his actions – is...
TMR Zoo
'Wonderbook' is due to be cast this holiday season
Examiner.com
The development team behind Sony's upcoming augmented reality title "Wonderbook: Book of Spells" have unveiled more details on the concept and technology behind the game. The London Studio developers, including creative director Russell Harding, ...
Game Developer Complaints Paint Picture of Broken Industry
Hot Hardware
Working in game development isn't for the faint of heart. The industry is ...Glassdoor catalogs hundreds of companies, but Kotaku went to the trouble of looking up a huge number of game developers and reporting what the results looked like. While such ...
Hot Hardware
Community TV Show Gets a Video Game
Escapist Magazine
Fans of the quirky NBC comedy Community likely remember a season three episode in which the study group went digital in an 8-bit video game. Not surprisingly, some intrepid developershave been hard at work making this fake game a reality, and they've ...
The million dollar video game tournament: DOTA 2 International
ABC Technology and Games
The growth in MOBA - multiplayer online battle arena - games has been staggering, but it wasn't until PC developer Valve stepped in with a million-dollar prize pool for a beta version of a game that people from all corners of the gaming industry ...
ABC Technology and Games
Review: 'Planet Crashers'
Examiner.com
Since advancement in “Planet Crashers” is reliant on its quest system, some may find thegame's pacing to be a bit on the slow side. The need to navigate through several menus to find a quest, to then select a quest, and then finally accept the quest ...
Dishonored Developer Documentary “Inception”: Artists Assemble!
GamingBolt (blog)
50 Of The Greatest Video Game Memes Of 2012 · 50 Worst Video Game Box Covers Of All Time. Dishonored just got a new developer documentary, titled “Inception” wherein the team sit down and discuss the philosophy used while creating the game.
First review score revealed for Borderlands 2
Examiner.com
Gearbox Software is the returning developer while 2K Games will be publishing the open-world first-person shooting co-operative role-playing game. Borderlands 2 will be released for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming systems in North America on ...
Video Games Sales Slump Continues - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
We believe that the ongoing transition from the physical to the digital platform will ultimately benefit the video game industry over the long term. As compared to the physical platform, digitalgames are more profitable since they require minimum ...
Blasting Your Way Into the Fall
New York Times
If the Wii U delivers as advertised, Nintendo will have once again expanded the universe of the possible for video game players. So far there's no release date, other than a ... is actually the eighth Resident Evil game. The actual sixth one (Resident ...
New York Times
Violent Video Games Increase Pain Tolerance? Okay, Hit Me.
Kotaku
Violent Video Games Increase Pain Tolerance? Okay, Hit Me. Researchers at Keele University in England decided it would be neat if they had 40 volunteers play either a violent or non-violentvideo game for ten minutes and then submerge one of their ...
Number Of US Video Gamers Down 5% This Year
RedOrbit
The number of mobile and digital gamers grew this year compared to last, with mobile gamers surpassing core gamers as the largest segment of people who play video games. However, the NPD said video game playing declined ... family, children, light PC ...
RedOrbit
US Video Game Sales Stalled (GME, MSFT, SNE, DIS, ZNGA, FB)
DailyFinance
Traditional video game retail sales at outlets like GameStop Corp. ... In another report from NPD Group, the research firm said that 12 million gamers — about 5% of the estimated 211.5 million U.S. players — gave up video games in the past 12 months ...
DailyFinance
New Online Game 'Save The World Or Not' Serves Up Sex, Violence And Porn ...
Forbes
As a video game journalist I get a lot of press releases every day about newgames. But the one for the new online game, Save the World or Not from Singapore developer Kingdom Crafting is just plain bizarre. You can watch a “clean” YouTube trailer for ...
Forbes
Forget Video Game Movies—What About a Video Game TV Series?
Screened
The central difficultly in transposing games to other mediums, one supposes, is that that most video game stories are bad; specifically, they might contain good fundamental ideas, but they break down at the scriptwriting phase, or, alternatively, they ...
Screened
Video Games Are Cheapest On Monday According To Research Data
Cinema Blend
He also breaks down why it's cheaper to buy video games, accessories and consoles on a Monday as opposed to buying products on a Friday, where you could be paying up to 15% more. The data comes courtesy of a brief research packet ...I'm sure most big ...
Cinema Blend
Game on, eh? 4 upcoming video games from Canada
Daily Comet
Canada might be best known for these varied exports, but there's one more major one from our neighbors to the north: video games. Many of the world's critically acclaimed and commercially successful video games have been designed and developed north ...
Sexism in Video Games [Study]: There Is Sexism in Gaming
By JJ Hendricks
Influenced by the recent influx of gender and sex-related video game discussions within the community, I was interested in finding out how much of these are actually true and how much they affect gamers– both male and female – as well as the gaming community. For this reason, I designed a twenty-question survey to find ..... of women and 15.2% of men playing at this frequency. The average male gamer and the average female gamer both play video games for a few hours a week.
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Video Games Sales Slump Continues - Zacks.com
By Zacks Equity Research
Video game retail sales declined for the ninth consecutive month in August 2012. ... Consumer spending on subscriptions, mobile games, social network games, digital full game downloads and add-on content was $391.0 million. According to ...
Zacks Investment Research - All...
US Video Game Sales Stalled (GME, MSFT, SNE, DIS ... - 24/7 Wall St.
By Paul Ausick
Part of the problem facing the video game industry is that fewer people are playing video games. In another report from NPD Group, the research firm said that 12 million gamers — about 5% of the estimated 211.5 million U.S. players — gave ...
24/7 Wall St.
405 Video Games: Plants Vs Zombies for iOS Updates (Again!) | The ...
By The 405
405 Video Games: Plants Vs Zombies for iOS Updates (Again!) by Jacob Dennis, 07 September 2012. Share: Doing their level best to bring more awesome stuff into the world, PopCap have released yet another update for their iOS Plants Vs ...
The 405
Scottish games industry doesn't really exist, says government report ...
By Alexander Sliwinski
What likely occurred in the study is that video game companies were misidentified, either by themselves in government filings or in the course of the research. The data is based off information from 2010, when video games didn't have their ...
Joystiq
Coroner warns of Call of Duty video game danger after boy, 14, dies ...
Callum Green, pictured, from Stockport, played the 18 certificate game with its graphically realistic scenes of soldiers carrying out gruesome killings just before ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Coroner-warns-Call-Duty-video-game...
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Callum Green, pictured, from Stockport, played the 18 certificate game with its graphically realistic scenes of soldiers carrying out gruesome killings just before ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Coroner-warns-Call-Duty-video-game...
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