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Opinion: The Value Of Education
Opinion: The Value Of Education
Researcher and video game developer Phil Carlisle shares why the game industry should embrace game education and help shape its direction, in this #altdevblogaday-reprinted opinion piece.
June 22, 2011
GameSalad Adds HTML5 Publishing To Game Creation Tool
GameSalad Adds HTML5 Publishing To Game Creation Tool
GameSalad announced today that users of its drag-and-drop game creation engine can now publish titles that work with the HTML5 standard, and embed those titles for play on any compatible web browser.
June 22, 2011
Interview: WBIE's Martin Tremblay On Cultivating Franchises From Licenses
Interview: WBIE's Martin Tremblay On Cultivating Franchises From Licenses
Looking into the maturing space of movie tie-ins and licensed games, Gamasutra talks with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment boss Martin Tremblay about pulling iconic IP like Batman into the top tier of games franchises.
June 22, 2011
Analysis: Option Availability And Loss Aversion in Game Design
Analysis: Option Availability And Loss Aversion in Game Design
In this analysis, Gamasutra contributor Connor Cleary examines players' "loss aversion" and stubborn insistence in keeping as many options available to them as possible in the games they play.
June 22, 2011
Best of GameSetWatch: From Sweet Home To Glow Artisan
Best of GameSetWatch: From Sweet Home To Glow Artisan
Gamasutra's sister site, alt video game blog GameSetWatch, rounds up this week's offbeat titles and news, including the unfortunate layoffs at Glow Artisan developer Powerhead, and a tribute to Sweet Home.
June 22, 2011
This Week In Console Digital Download: From Trenched To Donkey Kong '94
This Week In Console Digital Download: From Trenched To Donkey Kong '94
This week, Gamasutra rounds up the titles released for the major console and portable digital delivery services including Game Boy classic Donkey Kong '94 and Doublefine's Trenched.
June 22, 2011
Crytek's Expensive 'Gift' To Its High-End Players
Crytek's Expensive 'Gift' To Its High-End Players
Crytek's is set to release a substantial patch to graphically improve Crysis 2, telling Gamasutra that its strategy to make the sequel more accessible than its predecessor may have "backfired."
June 22, 2011
Casey's Contraptions Dev: Launch On All iOS Devices Simultaneously
Casey's Contraptions Dev: Launch On All iOS Devices Simultaneously
Noel Llopis, one of the developers behind Snappy Touch's successful iPad game Casey's Contraptions, said in a
June 22, 2011
Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Trion Worlds' Rift
Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Trion Worlds' Rift
Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine features a postmortem of Trion Worlds' fantasy MMO Rift, written by CCO Scott Hartsman -- highlights of what went right, wrong within.
June 22, 2011
Korea's GCF: Scientific Standards For Game Addiction Needed
Korea's GCF: Scientific Standards For Game Addiction Needed
South Korea's Game Culture Foundation, which opened a local game addiction clinic earlier this month, said there needs to be scientific standards for game addiction.
June 22, 2011
Mobile Veteran Ulf Waschbusch Joins Social Gaming Company MindJolt
Mobile Veteran Ulf Waschbusch Joins Social Gaming Company MindJolt
Google and MySpace veteran Ulf Waschbusch has joined MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe at his social gaming company MindJolt, where he will head the company's internal mobile game development.
June 22, 2011
Kaspersky uses cloud intelligence for automated PDF threat analysis
Kaspersky uses cloud intelligence for automated PDF threat analysis
Kaspersky Lab has announced that a new feature of its security software - File Advisor - will use cloud threat intelligence to verify the safety of Adobe PDF files.
June 22, 2011