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Top iPad game apps: Sky Gamblers, Coco Loco report strong first-week sales
Top iPad game apps: Sky Gamblers, Coco Loco report strong first-week sales
Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Sky Gamblers, Draw Something, and Flight Control: Rocket currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
March 16, 2012
Game companies eager to support new iPad's launch today
Game companies eager to support new iPad's launch today
Apple fans aren't the only ones lining up for the new iPad -- Namco Bandai, Chair, Gameloft, Electronic Arts and others have made sure to have games ready for today's big hardware launch.
March 16, 2012
Your game industry in your words: Week of March 16
Your game industry in your words: Week of March 16
Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from industry figures such as Valve Software's Chet Faliszek, Capcom's Christian Svensson, Ubisoft Toronto's Jade Raymond, and many others in this new weekly roundup.
March 16, 2012
Omgpop's Draw Something now Facebook's most popular game
Omgpop's Draw Something now Facebook's most popular game
Omgpop's mobile and social overnight hit Draw Something is now the most popular game on Facebook, based on its daily active user count, after launching on the social network a few weeks ago.
March 16, 2012
How freelancing on the side let Auditorium dev Cipher Prime follow a dream
How freelancing on the side let Auditorium dev Cipher Prime follow a dream
"The first year was extremely rough and scary," Will Stallwood, creative director of Auditorium developer Cipher Prime tells Gamasutra. But his studio found ways to make a bootstrap operation an indie success.
March 16, 2012
Minecraft's Persson: It's 'dangerous' to allow Steam to own digital PC gaming market
Minecraft's Persson: It's 'dangerous' to allow Steam to own digital PC gaming market
Minecraft developer Markus "Notch" Persson has said that it is "a bit dangerous" to allow digital distribution service Steam to own the PC game download space without competition.
March 16, 2012
Channel 4 announces new round of funding for educational games
Channel 4 announces new round of funding for educational games
UK TV broadcaster Channel 4 is set to participate in a new round of funding for educational games, with the aim to support the video game industry in the UK.
March 16, 2012
Lifetime Metal Gear sales hit 31 million units
Lifetime Metal Gear sales hit 31 million units
Konami and Kojima Productions on Friday revealed that the popular stealth action Metal Gear franchise has sold more than 31.1 million copies in its 25 year lifespan.
March 16, 2012
Portal 2 earns top honors at 2012 BAFTA game awards
Portal 2 earns top honors at 2012 BAFTA game awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has revealed the winners for its 2012 British Academy Video Games Awards, with standout titles including Portal 2, Battlefield 3, and LittleBigPlanet 2.
March 16, 2012
GDC Podcast: A couple Insomniacs, a PopCap, a Jon Blow
GDC Podcast: A couple Insomniacs, a PopCap, a Jon Blow
Lots of big guests on this final official GDC podcast with Gamasutra and One Life Left: Dwight Okahara and Chris Olander from Insomniac, PopCap's Joe McDonagh, an indie named Jon Blow, and more.
March 16, 2012
Six major challenges to game preservation for indies
Six major challenges to game preservation for indies
In Gamasutra's latest feature, two indie developers, Dejobaan's Ichiro Lambe and Bigpants' Jim McGinley, share what they consider the three biggest hurdles to indies preserving their work for the future.
March 16, 2012
Mobile studios ready to tackle the new iPad's development challenges
Mobile studios ready to tackle the new iPad's development challenges
Apple's latest iPad hits stores today with new features that promise to improve the platform's gaming capabilities. But how will these new features affect mobile developers already working on iOS?
March 16, 2012