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Japan's SoftBank acquires Puzzle & Dragons publisher GungHo
Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank is once again dipping its toes into the video game pool, acquiring Puzzle & Dragons publisher GungHo Online Entertainment.
March 26, 2013
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Square Enix president steps down following terrible year for the company
As Square Enix revises its full fiscal year forecasts, now predicting a swing to losses from the previously estimated profits, the company's president Yoichi Wada has resigned.
March 26, 2013
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GDC 2013 Day 1: Indies speak out
Highlights from the first day of GDC 2013 include Double Fine's Kipnis on the game jam inspired by @petermolydeux, Terry Cavanagh calling for indies to curate their own games, and Giant Sparrow on The Unfinished's Swan's journey to PSN.
March 26, 2013
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BlackBerry's game R&D lead: 'We want devs to make money, obviously'
Gamasutra spoke with BlackBerry game R&D lead Sean Paul Taylor about how the company plans to court mobile game devs with promises of easy ports, gamepad support, and more virality through BBM.
March 26, 2013
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Kongregate's 6 habits for keeping F2P players playing (and paying!)
Kongregate COO and co-founder Emily Greer has built her company on maintaining players for the long haul. At a GDC session she described the six pillars her company has identified for keeping players happy (and keeping the revenues flowing).
March 26, 2013
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Designing without a pitch - An FTL postmortem
FTL: Faster Than Light developers Matthew Davis and Justin Ma didn't bother with a design document -- after all, they expected it to be a three-month side project. But when development got serious, they had to adjust.
March 26, 2013
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How to use live events to promote your game
For all the talent that small, independent game developers may possess, they're not typically so skilled in the art of marketing and self-promotion. Antichamber dev Alexander Bruce and Double Fine's Greg Rice offer some tips.
March 26, 2013
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How Plague, Inc topped the mobile market
Ndemic Creations CEO James Vaughan outlines some of the business decisions that made mobile disease simulation game Plague, Inc one of the most successful and top-grossing mobile games of 2012.
March 26, 2013
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The five reasons freemium sucks (according to QWOP's developer)
The free-to-play business model has five big problems, says Bennett Foddy -- but being creative about solving them can result in a more meaningful application of free-to-play games.
March 26, 2013
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Triple Town devs on finding the fun in free-to-play game design
Rapid iteration, early releases, and a broad design space are key to building original successful free-to-play games, say Spry Fox (Triple Town) devs during a session at GDC's free-to-play summit.
March 25, 2013
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BioShock Infinite: What the critics are saying
This edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to Irrational Games' narrative-driven first-person shooter BioShock Infinite, which reviewers describe as "an amazing experience from beginning to end."
March 25, 2013
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Release This: BioShock Infinite, Luigi's Mansion 2 premiere stateside
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings BioShock Infinite and Luigi's Mansion 2 to North America and Europe, while Japan gets Game & Wario.
March 25, 2013