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Japanese video game market revenues declined 8% in 2011
Japanese video game market revenues declined 8% in 2011
Total revenue from the Japanese video game retail market fell 8 percent in 2011 year-over-year, despite increased hardware sales from the launches of the Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation Vita.
Jan. 5, 2012
House of the Dead 3, 4 HD remakes coming to PSN
House of the Dead 3, 4 HD remakes coming to PSN
Sega revealed today that HD versions of House of the Dead 3 and House of the Dead 4 are both coming to the PlayStation Network in the next few months.
Jan. 5, 2012
Heroes of Newerth expands to CIS regions with localized clients
Heroes of Newerth expands to CIS regions with localized clients
Heroes of Newerth developer S2 Games has signed a partnership with Garena, with the aim to provide users in the CIA regions with dedicated, localized clients for its popular real-time strategy title.
Jan. 5, 2012
Mario Kart 7 holds onto top of Japanese software charts
Mario Kart 7 holds onto top of Japanese software charts
Mario Kart 7 topped the Japanese weekly software sales charts last week, with over 109,000 sales bringing the game's total Japanese sales to over 1.1 million.
Jan. 5, 2012
A new head of player analytics for social dev Kixeye
A new head of player analytics for social dev Kixeye
"Core"-focused social game developer Kixeye is putting more focus into analyzing its players' behaviors with the appointment of a new VP of Customer Insights.
Jan. 5, 2012
GDC 2012 details new AI Summit highlights
GDC 2012 details new AI Summit highlights
GDC 2012 has debuted a trio of new talks in the show's AI Summit, featuring a look at some esoteric AI techniques, spanning games from Thief 4 through Double Fine's Happy Action Theater to Hitman: Absolution and beyond.
Jan. 5, 2012
Opinion: Game Pre-Mortem
Opinion: Game Pre-Mortem
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Nlogn Information's Charilaos Kalogirou discusses the value of game pre-mortems, and shares lessons he learned from developing his indie iOS title.
Jan. 5, 2012
Portal 2, Skyrim, Bastion lead finalists for 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards
Portal 2, Skyrim, Bastion lead finalists for 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards
Organizers have revealed the finalists for the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, with Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Bastion leading the list of nominees.
Jan. 5, 2012
The best defense against copycat games? Innovate!
The best defense against copycat games? Innovate!
Gamasutra's latest feature takes a look at just what response developers can -- and should -- have when their successful mobile and social games are cloned.
Jan. 5, 2012
Leveson Inquiry shows government should concentrate RIPA reforms on the media
Leveson Inquiry shows government should concentrate RIPA reforms on the media
A UK lawyer has called on the government to redirect its reforms of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) away from local authorities and toward journalism.
Jan. 5, 2012
Stuxnet and Duqu were produced by the same malware team
Stuxnet and Duqu were produced by the same malware team
Kaspersky’s lengthy investigation into the Duqu worm concludes that it comes from the same developers as Stuxnet. This, potentially, has serious implications.
Jan. 5, 2012
WordPress 3.3 has XSS vulnerability, say Indian researchers
WordPress 3.3 has XSS vulnerability, say Indian researchers
Indian researchers Aditya Modha and Samir Shah have uncovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress 3.3.
Jan. 5, 2012