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Zynga's Empire & Allies Leads Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Zynga's Empire & Allies Leads Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Gamasutra's bi-weekly look at the fastest-growing Facebook titles examines the recent launch and immediate popularity of Zynga's latest social game, turn-based strategy title Empire & Allies.
June 13, 2011
Release This: Duke Nukem Forever Finally Arrives At Retail
Release This: Duke Nukem Forever Finally Arrives At Retail
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings Duke Nukem Forever, Child of Eden, and Alice: Madness Returns stateside, while the UK gets The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.
June 13, 2011
Top iPhone Game Apps: Words With Friends, Pocket God Sequels See Big Sales
Top iPhone Game Apps: Words With Friends, Pocket God Sequels See Big Sales
Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Hanging With Friends and Pocket God: Journey to Uranus to ShapeShift and more.
June 13, 2011
Zumba Fitness Fuels Growth In Majesco's Q2 Earnings
Zumba Fitness Fuels Growth In Majesco's Q2 Earnings
Majesco revealed a significant boost in revenue for its second fiscal quarter, attributing most of its growth to the success of the publisher's popular Zumba Fitness franchise.
June 13, 2011
Minecraft Surpasses 2.5 Million Sales
Minecraft Surpasses 2.5 Million Sales
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has revealed that his indie hit has surpassed 2.5 million sales, and that the title has sold more than 500,000 copies since late April.
June 13, 2011
NPD: May U.S. Retail Game Industry Sales Lowest Since Oct. '06
NPD: May U.S. Retail Game Industry Sales Lowest Since Oct. '06
Following a strong lift in April, NPD Group said Monday that total U.S. video game industry retail sales were down 14 percent for the month of May to $743.1 million, "the lowest month of sales for the industry since October 2006."
June 13, 2011
THQ Shutters UK Studio, Homefront Developer Kaos
THQ Shutters UK Studio, Homefront Developer Kaos
THQ confirmed to Gamasutra today that it is closing developers Digital Warrington and Kaos Studios as part of a "strategic realignment" less than three months after the release of Kaos shooter Homefront.
June 13, 2011
AFTRA Reaches Agreement For New Voice-Overs Contract
AFTRA Reaches Agreement For New Voice-Overs Contract
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has reached an agreement with video game industry representatives that will see the industry's first ever streaming payments for voice-over performers.
June 13, 2011
Analyst: Wii U 'Two Years Too Late,' Has 'Dumbest Name'
Analyst: Wii U 'Two Years Too Late,' Has 'Dumbest Name'
Michael Pachter, games industry analyst at Wedbush Securities, has given his verdict on last week's E3 show, expressing caution of the Wii U strategy while noting "sound business decisions" by Microsoft.
June 13, 2011
Nintendo 3DS Sells 1M Units In Japan
Nintendo 3DS Sells 1M Units In Japan
Japanese firm Enterbrain has confirmed that Nintendo has sold 1 million Nintendo 3DS units in Japan, taking thirteen weeks to reach that figure compared to the four weeks that it took the original DS.
June 13, 2011
Anonymous Attacks Spanish Police Site In Response To Sony Arrests
Anonymous Attacks Spanish Police Site In Response To Sony Arrests
The web site for Spain's national police force was briefly taken offline Sunday in an attack allegedly in response to the recent arrest of three
June 13, 2011
Microsoft Trademark Application Points To Kinect-Based Interactive Ad Platform
Microsoft Trademark Application Points To Kinect-Based Interactive Ad Platform
Microsoft has filed a trademark for the term NUADS, a term the application hints might refer to a new, interactive advertising platform that uses Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect camera controller.
June 13, 2011