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2011 Canadian Games Conference Calls For Papers
2011 Canadian Games Conference Calls For Papers
The Canadian Game Conference has announced a call for papers to present at its 2011 conference, taking place May 19 and 20 at the Vancouver Convention Centre in British Columbia.
Dec. 10, 2010
Ubisoft Faces UFC Trademark Lawsuit Over Fighters Uncaged Marketing
Ubisoft Faces UFC Trademark Lawsuit Over Fighters Uncaged Marketing
The organization behind the Ultimate Fighting Championship has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft for a promotional phrase used on the back of the box for its recently released Kinect game Fighters Uncaged.
Dec. 10, 2010
Exclusive: Black Ops For Xbox 360 Sells Nearly 5 Million In U.S.
Exclusive: Black Ops For Xbox 360 Sells Nearly 5 Million In U.S.
Exclusive NPD Group data provided to Gamasutra has revealed 4.9 million units of Call Of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox 360 in the U.S. in November, while the PS3 version accounted for 3.1 million units.
Dec. 10, 2010
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of December 10
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of December 10
In the latest postings over the last week, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Rockstar North, Gazillion Entertainment, Tencent
Dec. 10, 2010
Monaco's Schatz On Building An IGF Grand Prize Winner In One Month
Monaco's Schatz On Building An IGF Grand Prize Winner In One Month
At GDC China, Andy Schatz shares the inspiring story behind his 2010 IGF Grand Prize-winning Monaco -- which he built on his own in four months, and submitted just one month after starting.
Dec. 10, 2010
Chahi: God Game From Dust's Tech Determined Game's Direction
Chahi: God Game From Dust's Tech Determined Game's Direction
Ubisoft's From Dust, the upcoming game from Out of this World/Another World creator Eric Chahi, originally was a strategy game, but the tech for the simulatio
Dec. 10, 2010
GDC 2011 To Feature StarCraft II Postmortem, Dance Central, Valve Talks
GDC 2011 To Feature StarCraft II Postmortem, Dance Central, Valve Talks
Organizers of GDC 2011 have debuted game design and programming lectures spanning a Starcraft II postmortem, Harmonix's Dance Central dissected, and Valve on forensic debugging.
Dec. 10, 2010
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 Surprises
Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 Surprises
Gamasutra continues its 2010 retrospectives with this year's top five game industry surprises, from unexpected deals to new kinds of hardware reveals that few could have predicted.
Dec. 10, 2010
Dance Central Tops Kinect Game Sales
Dance Central Tops Kinect Game Sales
Harmonix's Dance Central was the most popular Kinect title in November, NPD Group said, revealing the game's chart placement along with two other popular games.
Dec. 10, 2010
Nordic Game Program Reveals New Round Of Game Grants
Nordic Game Program Reveals New Round Of Game Grants
The Nordic Game Program has chosen its second round of grantees for 2010, planning to distribute 3 million DKK ($532,917) among seven winning indie developers, including IGF winner Eric Svedang.
Dec. 10, 2010
Gran Turismo 5 Ships 5.5 Million
Gran Turismo 5 Ships 5.5 Million
Sony shipped 5.5 million copies worldwide of its PlayStation 3 racing simulator Gran Turismo in the 12 days following that game's launch, bringing the total number of sales across the series to more than 60 million units.
Dec. 10, 2010
This Week In Video Game Criticism: Gender, Storytelling, And The Science Of Nostalgia
This Week In Video Game Criticism: Gender, Storytelling, And The Science Of Nostalgia
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us a roundup of links on gaming topics including gender, moral ambiguity, and a scientific look at our reverence for games of yore.
Dec. 9, 2010