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Keita Takahashi To Work On Glitch With Tiny Speck
Keita Takahashi To Work On Glitch With Tiny Speck
Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi will be helping with the development of Tiny Speck's casual massively-multiplayer online game Glitch, the Vancouver-based company announced today.
July 8, 2011
Report: 500M Internet-Connected TVs To Ship Worldwide By 2015
Report: 500M Internet-Connected TVs To Ship Worldwide By 2015
The era of needing a game console or other set top box to get interactive content on a TV may be coming to an end, as a new report predicts 500 million internet connected TVs will have been shipped by 2015.
July 8, 2011
Hideo Kojima, Suda51 Working on 'Sdatcher' Radio Drama
Hideo Kojima, Suda51 Working on 'Sdatcher' Radio Drama
The next project from Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda (a.k.a. Suda51) won't be a game, but a radio drama based on Kojima's classic adventure title Snatcher.
July 8, 2011
Iwata: Nintendo 3DS Launch Software 'Wasn't Strong'
Iwata: Nintendo 3DS Launch Software 'Wasn't Strong'
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted that the Nintendo 3DS launch software lineup wasn't very strong, noting that the company needs to think more carefully about the launch of the upcoming Wii U.
July 8, 2011
Sony Online Entertainment Unveils PlanetSide 2, Beta To Come
Sony Online Entertainment Unveils PlanetSide 2, Beta To Come
Sony Online Entertainment has unveiled PlanetSide 2, a follow-up to the original first-person shooter MMO that first launched in 2003, although no deals regarding business model or release date have yet been supplied.
July 8, 2011
Mad Catz Signs Publishing Agreement For Xbox 360
Mad Catz Signs Publishing Agreement For Xbox 360
Gaming peripherals and accessories company Mad Catz Interactive has entered into a publishing agreement with Microsoft that will allow it to release its upcoming War Wings series on the Xbox 360.
July 8, 2011
Ex-Bizarre Designer Forms Indie Studio Totem Games
Ex-Bizarre Designer Forms Indie Studio Totem Games
Matt Cavanagh, originally lead designer at Blur developer Bizarre Creations, has formed a new independent games studio called Totem Games with the missions to "make the world a happier place."
July 8, 2011
Outspark Launches MMO Platform Flint
Outspark Launches MMO Platform Flint
Free-to-play MMO company Outspark today announced Flint, a new digital distribution platform for developers to publish MMO free-to-play titles, with a potential audience of 200 million players by the end of summer.
July 8, 2011
Study: Games Most Popular Apps On Smartphones
Study: Games Most Popular Apps On Smartphones
Games are the most popular type of apps available for download from the various app stores, with 93 percent of downloaders in the U.S. happy to pay for content, according to analyst research.
July 8, 2011
Microsoft's Durkin: Entertainment 'Driving Platform Momentum' On Xbox 360
Microsoft's Durkin: Entertainment 'Driving Platform Momentum' On Xbox 360
Dennis Durkin, COO of Microsoft's IEB, tells Gamasutra, "Not only has gaming usage gone up [on Xbox 360], but non-gaming has as well," as the company evolves the console into a do-it-all entertainment box.
July 8, 2011
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of July 8
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of July 8
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Treyarch, OnLive, and Sony Computer Entertainment America.
July 8, 2011
This Week In Korean Online Gaming News: From NCsoft To Mobile Game Ratings
This Week In Korean Online Gaming News: From NCsoft To Mobile Game Ratings
Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online games market from local news site This Is Game, this time looking at NCsoft's likely acquisition of Ntreev, mobile game ratings, and
July 8, 2011