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Release This: Mass Effect 3, Street Fighter X Tekken premiere worldwide
Release This: Mass Effect 3, Street Fighter X Tekken premiere worldwide
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings Mass Effect 3 and Street Fighter X Tekken to store shelves alongside competing baseball sims from Sony and 2K Sports.
March 5, 2012
Top iPad game apps: Fancy Pants, Midway Arcade lead paid app charts
Top iPad game apps: Fancy Pants, Midway Arcade lead paid app charts
Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Midway Arcade, Fancy Pants, and Waking Mars currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
March 5, 2012
Tecmo Koei promotes Warriors producer to software head
Tecmo Koei promotes Warriors producer to software head
Tecmo Koei has promoted Hisashi Koinuma, producer for the company's Warriors series (e.g. Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors), as the new head of its software division.
March 5, 2012
Seven studios team up to deliver Assassin's Creed III this October
Seven studios team up to deliver Assassin's Creed III this October
Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin's Creed III, which brings its popular franchise to the American Revolutionary War, will release to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows, and Wii U beginning October 31.
March 5, 2012
Road to the IGF: Derek Yu's Spelunky
Road to the IGF: Derek Yu's Spelunky
As part of Gamasutra's Road to the IGF series, Derek Yu discusses how the XBLA version of Spelunky came about, and the changes that have occurred since the freeware version.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: Loom creator Brian Moriarty's 'sinister' school of game design
GDC 2012: Loom creator Brian Moriarty's 'sinister' school of game design
In an Education Summit talk at GDC 2012, Infocom and LucasArts veteran Brian Moriarty outlined some key principles of game design education, arguing that the best way to teach students is to force them to figure it out on their own.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: Don't be afraid to piss off your players
GDC 2012: Don't be afraid to piss off your players
During the Social and Online Games summit, Spry Fox Games CEO David Edery explained how making rapid changes was crucial to bullet-hell MMO Realm of the Mad God's success—even if it meant pissing off their most vocal players.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: Trimming down Atom Zombie Smasher's 'tumorous' design
GDC 2012: Trimming down Atom Zombie Smasher's 'tumorous' design
In a recent postmortem session at GDC 2012, Blendo Games' Brendon Chung detailed some of the critical problems -- and lessons learned -- from its hit strategy game Atom Zombie Smasher.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: AI programmers can be artists!
GDC 2012: AI programmers can be artists!
UC Santa Cruz developer Mike Treanor suggests that in order to make more interesting games, AI programmers should think of themselves more like artists, and code more like theories.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: Sims team's Graham says ambient AI tells better stories
GDC 2012: Sims team's Graham says ambient AI tells better stories
NPCs are stupid, says Sims lead AI programmer David Graham. He says ambient AI for NPCs is the next frontier for realistic game characters and stories on the whole.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: The benefits of self-publishing Flash games on the web
GDC 2012: The benefits of self-publishing Flash games on the web
QWOP and GIRP creator Bennett Foddy today urged GDC attendees to consider publishing their games on self-hosted websites, instead of working with traditional Flash game portals.
March 5, 2012
GDC 2012: Sword & Sworcery's Vella warns against making an iOS game for everyone
GDC 2012: Sword & Sworcery's Vella warns against making an iOS game for everyone
Capy's Nathan Vella today warned GDC attendees that creating iOS games to appeal to everybody all too often results in games that appeal to none, taking you "away from a game that is fresh or has soul."
March 5, 2012