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Angry Birds Space hits 50M downloads in just over a month
Angry Birds Space hits 50M downloads in just over a month
Rovio's Angry Birds is showing no signs of slowing down in terms of popularity, as the latest in the series, Angry Birds Space, is now the fastest-selling game in the series.
April 30, 2012
Australian government to question game publishers over high download prices
Australian government to question game publishers over high download prices
A number of software companies, including video game publishers, will be asked to explain to the Australian Parliament why downloads of music and games cost much more in Australia than compared to overseas.
April 30, 2012
Sega West CEO Mike Hayes leaving the company this summer
Sega West CEO Mike Hayes leaving the company this summer
Sega West president Mike Hayes is set to leave the company later this year, moving into advisory roles both at Sega and outside of the company, while Jurgen Post, the company's current COO, will replace him.
April 30, 2012
Creative Assembly's 'fairly brutal' approach to achieving high Metacritic scores
Creative Assembly's 'fairly brutal' approach to achieving high Metacritic scores
Total War developer Creative Assembly shoots for a 90 percent Metacritic score for its games, and has a "brutal" approach to getting there, the studio tells Gamasutra in our latest feature.
April 30, 2012
Reminder: GDC Online 2012's call for submissions ends Wednesday, May 2
Reminder: GDC Online 2012's call for submissions ends Wednesday, May 2
If you're looking to submit a proposal for this October's Game Developers Conference Online in Austin, Texas, there's still time, as the call for submissions ends this Wednesday, May 2.
April 30, 2012
42 blackmail sites -posing as news sites - shut down in China
42 blackmail sites -posing as news sites - shut down in China
Genuine news sites publish information on events – these sites, say the Chinese authorities, promised not to publish information for a fee.
April 30, 2012
Columbia posts faculty social security numbers on the internet
Columbia posts faculty social security numbers on the internet
Columbia University has notified 3,000 faculty members that their names, addresses, social security numbers, and bank account numbers were available on the internet for two years.
April 30, 2012
Europeans exhibit more caution regarding BYOD
Europeans exhibit more caution regarding BYOD
BT conducted a survey of over 2000 IT users and decision makers across 11 countries. The research, released during last week’s Infosecurity Europe show in London, showed that Western European organizations tend to take a more guarded approach to BYOD implementation when compared to their global counterparts.
April 30, 2012
Intruder alert: Star Trek Online account database compromised
Intruder alert: Star Trek Online account database compromised
The studio behind the Star Trek Online game had its user account database breached over a year ago, but is only reporting it now.
April 30, 2012
In-depth: Kevin Bacon in video games
In-depth: Kevin Bacon in video games
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Visual Outbreak creative director Alex Norton explains how actor Kevin Bacon played a part in the development of his team's procedurally generated world.
April 27, 2012
Nexon tops 2011 sales, this week in Korean news
Nexon tops 2011 sales, this week in Korean news
Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online games market from local news site This Is Game, including Nexon making more than any other company in the country last year.
April 27, 2012
Top iPad game apps: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 takes on Angry Birds Space
Top iPad game apps: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 takes on Angry Birds Space
Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Angry Birds Space, and Smash Cops currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
April 27, 2012