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Gaikai Completes $30M Funding Round
Gaikai Completes $30M Funding Round
Streaming video game demo service Gaikai announced today the completion of a $30 million round of Series C funding, including investment from mobile giant Qualcomm.
July 20, 2011
Ubisoft Q1 Sales Fall Over One-Third Year-Over-Year
Ubisoft Q1 Sales Fall Over One-Third Year-Over-Year
Ubisoft announced today sales for its fiscal first quarter were €103 million ($146.3 million), down 36.3 percent from a year ago, though above company expectations of €90 million ($126.9 million) for the period.
July 20, 2011
Shadows Of The Damned Director Leaves Grasshopper
Shadows Of The Damned Director Leaves Grasshopper
Massimo Guarini, director of recent third-person thriller Shadows of the Damned, has left developer Grasshopper Manufacture to set up his own company called Ovosonico Productions, with the slogan "the sound of bold ideas."
July 20, 2011
Best of GameSetWatch: From Earthbound To World Joyland
Best of GameSetWatch: From Earthbound To World Joyland
Gamasutra's newly redesigned sister site, alt video game blog GameSetWatch, rounds up this week's offbeat titles and news, including fun discoveries in EarthBound, China's Warcraft/StarCraft amu
July 20, 2011
Develop: LittleBigPlanet Was Originally Free-To-Play Reveals Media Molecule
Develop: LittleBigPlanet Was Originally Free-To-Play Reveals Media Molecule
Speaking as part of a Gamasutra-attended group interview keynote at the Develop 2011 conference in Brighton, three of the Media Molecule founders discussed the history of LittleBigPlanet, including some surprising revelations.
July 20, 2011
Develop: WB Games' Fryer Calls Slash And Burn Management 'Unsustainable'
Develop: WB Games' Fryer Calls Slash And Burn Management 'Unsustainable'
Laura Fryer, VP and General Manager of WB Games and former executive producer on the Gears of War franchise, said today that "slash and burn" management styles are harming the industry.
July 20, 2011
Opinion: Debugging C++ with Visual Studio
Opinion: Debugging C++ with Visual Studio
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, graphics programmer Daan-Nijs shares several obscure techniques for debugging with Visual Studio, like changing a value/type in the Watch Window, and more.
July 20, 2011
GDC China 2011 Registration Now Open, First Talks Revealed
GDC China 2011 Registration Now Open, First Talks Revealed
Registration for November's GDC China is now live, and the first sessions includes speakers from the show's notable Summits, including Ubisoft Chengdu and Coconut Island-authored lectures.
July 20, 2011
Former Harvard student charged with hacking into MIT network
Former Harvard student charged with hacking into MIT network
Federal prosecutors are charging a former Harvard University student with hacking into a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) computer network and stealing 4.8 million academic journal articles.
July 20, 2011
Interview: Ubisoft's Guillemot Talks Early Adoption Of Wii U
Interview: Ubisoft's Guillemot Talks Early Adoption Of Wii U
Ubisoft's chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot talks to Gamasutra about his company's early adoption of the upcoming Nintendo Wii U, and about how the new transition means that Sony and Microsoft need "new machines soon."
July 19, 2011
Best of iOS News: From Blobster to Pocket RPG
Best of iOS News: From Blobster to Pocket RPG
Gamasutra rounds up the latest news in the world of App Store gaming, featuring standout releases like Blobster, Pocket RPG, 9mm, and Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure on the iPad.
July 19, 2011
Deepak Chopra Details Leela Meditation Game For Kinect, Wii
Deepak Chopra Details Leela Meditation Game For Kinect, Wii
Spirituality expert and alternative medicine proponent Dr. Deepak Chopra has revealed details of his upcoming release Leela, an interactive meditation aid without set goals.
July 19, 2011