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Top iPad Game Apps: id's RAGE HD Leads in First-Day Sales
Top iPad Game Apps: id's RAGE HD Leads in First-Day Sales
Rounding up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming apps, we see RAGE HD, Smurfs' Village and GT Racing: Motor Academy ranking among the platform's top downloads.
Nov. 19, 2010
Saling The World: AC: Brotherhood Challenges Black Ops in U.S. and UK
Saling The World: AC: Brotherhood Challenges Black Ops in U.S. and UK
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled Amazon.com charts find Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood competing with reigning chart leader Call of Duty: Black Ops in North America and Europe.
Nov. 19, 2010
PSP Leads Japanese Charts, Wii Jumps To Number Two
PSP Leads Japanese Charts, Wii Jumps To Number Two
The PSP led the Japanese hardware sales charts this week, and Nintendo Wii sales saw a significant increase thanks to the release of the red 25th anniversary bundle.
Nov. 19, 2010
Gamasutra Expert Blogs: From Indie Highlights To Cutscene Essentials
Gamasutra Expert Blogs: From Indie Highlights To Cutscene Essentials
In highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs, industry notables write about diverse topics, including the Indie Game Winter Uprising, avoiding project crunch, and what is missing from modern cutscenes.
Nov. 19, 2010
Analysis: Xbox 360 Leads, Wii Slips Among Software Leaders
Analysis: Xbox 360 Leads, Wii Slips Among Software Leaders
Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews examines U.S. retail game revenues year to date, revealing Nintendo's overall revenues slipping, as Sony and Microsoft match or exceed last year's totals.
Nov. 19, 2010
Zattikka Acquires Monty Python License For Social Games
Zattikka Acquires Monty Python License For Social Games
London-based start-up Zattikka has acquired the Monty Python's Flying Circus license to create social games based on the revered brand with help from the original comedy group.
Nov. 19, 2010
Report: Facebook Testing 'Pay Later' Option For Credits Purchases
Report: Facebook Testing 'Pay Later' Option For Credits Purchases
Facebook has reportedly introduced a "Pay Later" option allowing users to spend Credits, its universal virtual currency system for social games and apps, that they don't have and pay for them later.
Nov. 19, 2010
Hollywood, Crime, And Vegas Cities Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Hollywood, Crime, And Vegas Cities Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Gamasutra's bi-weekly look at the fastest-growing Facebook titles examines the recent popularity of three sims: Funzio's Crime City, and Digital Chocolate's Hollywood City and Vegas City.
Nov. 19, 2010
Best Of Indie Games: High Five in Space
Best Of Indie Games: High Five in Space
This week's edition of 'Best Of Indie Games' takes a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week, including physics-based puzzlers No, Human and BrainSplode!.
Nov. 19, 2010
Analysis: U.S. Music Game Sales Have Dropped Fivefold Since 2008
Analysis: U.S. Music Game Sales Have Dropped Fivefold Since 2008
Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews charts and evaluates the severity of the music game genre's revenue shrinkage -- finding "sales of music games have dropped by more than a factor of five since 2008."
Nov. 19, 2010
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of November 19
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of November 19
In this week's latest postings, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Infinity Ward, Warner Bros., Gameloft, and more.
Nov. 19, 2010
Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
In this excerpt from the latest postmortem in Game Developer magazine, Beenox discusses how Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions played to the strengths of its license, and how its scope troubled the young design team.
Nov. 19, 2010