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Study: Youth Violent Video Game Play Affects Sympathy, 'Justified Violence' Perceptions
Study: Youth Violent Video Game Play Affects Sympathy, 'Justified Violence' Perceptions
A new study into the effect of violent video games on children's moral reasoning finds a limited correlation between the level of violent game play and certain viewpoints on real-world violence.
April 5, 2011
EA Tiburon Working On New Basketball Sim For Fall 2012
EA Tiburon Working On New Basketball Sim For Fall 2012
Electronic Arts' EA Sports division has announced it will follow up the troubled production and cancellation of NBA Elite 2011 with a new basketball simulation that will hit stores in Fall 2012.
April 5, 2011
Hawkins: Madden Royalty Suit Exaggerates Antonick's Role
Hawkins: Madden Royalty Suit Exaggerates Antonick's Role
EA founder and current Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins says a multi-million dollar lawsuit over Madden series royalt
April 5, 2011
Rockstar's Houser Down On Transmedia, Games As Art Debate
Rockstar's Houser Down On Transmedia, Games As Art Debate
Ahead of L.A. Noire becoming the first video game ever to be featured at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month,
April 5, 2011
Kalypso Licenses Trinigy's Vision For The Dark Eye: Demonicon
Kalypso Licenses Trinigy's Vision For The Dark Eye: Demonicon
Publisher Kalypso Media has licensed Trinigy's Vision Game Engine for multiple upcoming titles, including The Dark Eye: Demonicon, the latest entry in one of Germany's most popular RPG series, releasing for PC and Xbox 360 next year.
April 5, 2011
Zynga Buys Team At Online Poker Tracker MarketZero
Zynga Buys Team At Online Poker Tracker MarketZero
Social game developer Zynga announced its 11th acquisition in as many months, this time purchasing the team at MarketZero, developer of online poker stat tracking portal PokerTableRatings.
April 5, 2011
Gametech Business Conference Coming To Sydney
Gametech Business Conference Coming To Sydney
Connect Events announced its inaugural Gametech convention, a two-day business conference covering the video games and interactive entertainment industry, coming to Sydney's Luna Park on June 21st and 22nd.
April 5, 2011
Tretton Discusses Platform Pricing, PS3 Hitting Its Stride
Tretton Discusses Platform Pricing, PS3 Hitting Its Stride
SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton said in a new interview that he doesn't think that "price makes or kills a platform," and that Sony is "just hitting [its] stride" with its PlayStation 3 console.
April 5, 2011
GDC Vault Adds Free 'GDC 25' Video Lectures From Lantz, Cleveland
GDC Vault Adds Free 'GDC 25' Video Lectures From Lantz, Cleveland
The GDC Vault service has debuted more free video talks from GDC 2011, including Frank Lantz evocatively exploring poker and Go, and Natural Selection 2's Charlie Cleveland on 'The 1-Hour Video Game MBA'.
April 5, 2011
Analysis: How To Hack The World: The Strange History Of Hacker International
Analysis: How To Hack The World: The Strange History Of Hacker International
Gamasutra contributor Kevin Gifford documents the history of 'Japanese bad boy publisher' Hacker International, from the company's legal brush with Nintendo to the production of the Disk Hacker.
April 5, 2011
Feature: Dead Rising 2's Intelligent Tool Design Secrets
Feature: Dead Rising 2's Intelligent Tool Design Secrets
In Gamasutra's latest feature, Capcom Game Studio Vancouver technical director Tom Niwinski reveals the secrets of how the studio created tools that made open worl
April 5, 2011
Codeplay Launches Offload 2 Compiler
Codeplay Launches Offload 2 Compiler
Edinburgh-based technology company Codeplay announced the launch of Offload 2, a new version of its game acceleration and optimization toolkit for PlayStation 3 developers.
April 5, 2011