LA to get economic boost from game developers' gatherings

LA to get economic boost from game developers' gatherings
Los Angeles Times
We also feel that the city is a great hub of digital games development." UBM runs a number of GDC-branded conferences, including a main annual conference that attracted ... in a survey of game developers who were asked which cities they would like to ...

Video Game Review: Mass Effect: Leviathan and Extended Cut DLCs
California Literary Review
What the fans did get was the ultimate middle finger from a video game developer: if they chose to attack the Star Child, the player suddenly found themselves in the worst of the possible endings, their efforts for the last three games a complete failure.

California Literary Review

Dragon Age III: Inquisition announced by EA
Examiner.com
EA announced a not so surprising bit of news this morning, revealing that a new Dragon Age gamehas been in development for over two years. Dragon Age III: ... It´s composed of both experienced BioWare veterans and talented new developers. We are ...

Angry Birds Sequel 'Bad Piggies' to Be Released Sept. 27 (VIDEO)
Christian Post
Game players that are familiar with "Angry Birds" will see the game reborn from a different point of view on Sept. 27. The game will feature the bad piggies, instead of merely killing them off. The game's developer, Rovio, who is also responsible for ...

Christian Post

LittleBigPlanet (PS Vita) Review
Just Push Start
When the first LittleBigPlanet game came out on the PS3 a few years ago, it opened doors for would-be video game developers thanks to its comprehensive “create-a-level” mode. LittleBigPlanet became so popular that it spawned a sequel and a PSP ...Much ...

Just Push Start

Freeplay begins in Melboune
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Those interested in learning how to design games, build from that design, and then market the finished product will want to participate in the Freeplay Developer Program on Thursday and Friday at ACMI. The packed two-day schedule features lectures ...

UK games jam breaks world record
BBC News
A games jam held at Bedfordshire University in Luton at the weekend has broken the world record for the largest number of people taking part. A games jam is a gathering ofvideo game developers. Participants are put into teams and challenged to build ...

BBC News

Have You Seen: Remember Me
TheGamersHub
Or be it the first hands on demo of a title still heavily on the cutting table, well I mean the programming… table (bearing the famous, 'this is product is still underdevelopment' heading), you get the point! Hmm, where am I going with this? What I ...

TheGamersHub

Freemium Rush: Free-To-Play Gaming Now Makes Up More Than Half Of ...
International Business Times
Freemium video games, the cheap and easily-accessible counterparts to premium console or PC games like "Skyrim" or "Call of Duty" that cost gamers upwards of $50 or $60 a sale, now make up more than half of the total market for all video games being ...

International Business Times

Arrested Arma Developers Leave a Message for Friends and Family
Kotaku
It's somewhat odd, though, that ArmA III's Creative Director was traveling in Lemnos, the game'ssetting, with a guy that makes video game maps of all people—and then both of them were arrested for supposedly filming and photographing Greek military ...

Middle East fully on board with FIFA 13's inclusion of Saudi Pro League
The National
At Games11, the region's biggest video games exhibition which last September took over The Dubai Mall ice-skating rink for three days, the hot news was that FIFA 12 was - for the first time in the hugely popular game's history - going to include Arabic ...

The National

Team Fortress 2 a 'Testbed' for Valve Software?
Gamenguide
American video game developer, Valve Software, has been using this game as a resource since its release in 2007. While the updates have been gratifying for the gamers, the company has been using it as a ... "Our secondary goal [with Team Fortress 2 ...

Gamenguide

Wii U, TVii and the Future of Nintendo
Student Life
The struggling video game manufacturer hopes that creativity in console design combined with more extensive streaming features than those of its competitors will allow it to retain a foothold the console gaming market. The Wii U shows potential, but it ...

Civilization V gets a touch-screen update
TG Daily
Firaxis, the developer of the franchise, recently showcased an updated version of the game at IDF 2012 in san Francisco that supports touchscreen gaming. It is clearly aimed at x86 tablets and touch-screen Ultrabooks expected to debut next year. Indeed ...

5 Reasons Why an Easy Mode Would Benefit Dark Souls
Gamersyndrome
I have to say that the amount of people on the Internet getting upset over the inclusion of such a mode is ridiculous, and a little disheartening – in fact, I think it could actually benefit the game. Here's why! You Don't Have to Play it. Do I really ...

Transformers Fall of Cybertron review: It's 1986 all over again
SideQuesting
The developer not only needs to interpret Bay's films into video game format, but also to pump out a secondary side series that keeps the license on retailer shelves in between film years. While their War for Cybertron was seen as a fun romp through ...

SideQuesting

London expo showcases gaming community
MetroNews Canada
The first of its kind in London, Sunday's Project Play offered video game fans the opportunity to stay in the Forest City, rather than leave the city for a gaming convention. The event at Fanshawe College featured a cosplay competition, a digital art ...

Can Incentives Make Students Secretly Hate Us?
Education Week News (blog)
I've written before that educators should study game design and listen to game designers, not so much because we should be making educational video games, but because educators have so much to learn from the evolving field of game design. So this old ...

How Hero Academy went big in China
Gamasutra
But even though China was the second biggest market for Hero Academy by downloads, it was still only reaching a fraction of China's potential iOS audience. After partnering with Robot Entertainment to create and release a new Chinese version of the...

Gamasutra

Expo provides perfect escape for gamers
N.C. State University Technician Online
Many felt that the convention was a roaring success with about 3,000 guests attending to compete invideo game tournaments, table-top gaming tournaments, live-action tournaments and to sit in onvideo game-related panels. “It's because of the sense of ...

FIFA 13: Predicting Player Ratings for Manchester United
Bleacher Report
I, like many of you I'm sure, am an avid fan of EA Sports' FIFA video game series. When Manchester City clinched Premier ... latest edition of the game is released. One point of interest that always captures fans' attention in the buildup to the ...

M&A Action: Akamai acquires FastSoft
Data Center Knowledge
AMD invests in cloud-based gaming provider. AMD announced an investment in CiiNOW, a provider of cloud gaming technology that enables game publishers, retailers and carriers to tap into the growing video game market. AMD and CiiNOW will work jointly ...

'Batman: Arkham City' and 'Zombies, Run!' nominated for writing award
The Verge
Developers Rocksteady, Six to Start, and Piranha Bytes are nominated for this year's UK Writers' Guild Awards 2012 in the Best Video Game Script category. Rocksteady's Paul Crocker is nominated for his work on Batman: Arkham City, Naomi Alderman is ...

The iControlPad 2 jumps on Kickstarter to get funding with a much better design
DroidGamers
One good thing about this Kickstarter campaign is that the developers, the same people behind the original iControlPad, already have a working prototype finished and that this new iteration of thegame controller is ready for mass production. With 25 ...

Comic pioneer Stan Lee shows off his first iOS game
Pocket Gamer
Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, and Fantastic Four co-creator Stan Lee is working with Dallas-baseddeveloper Chaos Media on a new iPhone and iPad game, and it's called Verticus. ... Check out thevideo below for a quick look at the action. Stan Lee's ...

SEGA Never Abandoned the Hardcore Gamer
TechnoBuffalo
Nintendo would launch a more powerful 16-bit console and reclaim the majority ofvideo game sales. Sony would work with CDs once they cost chump-change to create. Microsoft launched Xbox Live at a time when most Americans could afford broadband ...

TechnoBuffalo

Your Turn: The Genre Comfort Zone
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
It was during this period that a pivotal point in my gaming life, and the point of this long winded article, was played out. On August 24th of 2007, Japanese developer Mistwalker released their firstgame for the XBox 360, Blue Dragon. To me, this game ...

Ubersense Receives Funding to Change the Way We Learn Sports
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The TechStars Boston 2012 company has created a mobile video and collaboration platform that makes it easy for coaches at all levels, from parents to Olympic trainers, to help athletes in any sport get better - anytime, anywhere. Olympic teams ...

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Twitter / FastCompany: A former video game developer ...
A former video game developer launches @mural_ly, a new platform for creative brainstorming http://trib.al/htpInL via @FastCoCreate. Reply; Retweeted ...
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Indie Game - Steel Storm 2 new dev video | Gaming On Linux
motorsep Game Developer. We have a ... I must mention that I installed update for video ...
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Video game developer | The Late Night Gamer
I did today what I do every Sunday: lurk the internet from my bed for a few hours then get up and do my lurking in the basement. Because I have a penchant for ...
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Gree devours dinosaur mobile-game developer App Ant Studios ...
1 day ago Comic book guru Stan Lee moves into mobile games ... Clumsy Ninja's 10-year journey to make it to Apple's iPhone 5 launch stage (video interview) ...
venturebeat.com/.../gree-acquires-mobile-game-developer-app...

Project Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment — Kickstarter
We are an independent video game developer specializing in role-playing games. We were ...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

A former video game developer launches @mural_ly, a new - Frrole
It can be hard to impose order on the creative process, particularly when working in groups. Mural.ly, a new collaboration platform based in Buenos Aires, ...
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