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Saling The World: LittleBigPlanet 2 Heads Worldwide Charts
Saling The World: LittleBigPlanet 2 Heads Worldwide Charts
Gamasutra's custom compiled Amazon.com charts find LittleBigPlanet 2 and Just Dance 2 leading multiplatform sales in the West, while Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Final Mix nears the top spot in Japan.
Jan. 21, 2011
Top iPad Game Apps: World of Goo, Angry Birds Continue to Lead Charts
Top iPad Game Apps: World of Goo, Angry Birds Continue to Lead Charts
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the most popular iPad games on the App Store, with World of Goo, Pro Zombie Soccer, RobotNGun HD, and Ski Jumping 2011 currently ranking among the platform's top downlo
Jan. 21, 2011
Berlin Game Museum Opens in New Location
Berlin Game Museum Opens in New Location
A new video game history museum opens in Berlin today with the support of patron and Magnavox Odyssey designer Ralph Baer, claiming over 300 exhibits and an archive of over 14,000 games.
Jan. 21, 2011
Microsoft Offers To Work With Potential Windows Phone 7 Hacker Hotz
Microsoft Offers To Work With Potential Windows Phone 7 Hacker Hotz
Microsoft has publicly extended its hand to iPhone and PS3 hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz after he recently expressed interest in trying to crack Microsoft's new Windows Phone platform.
Jan. 21, 2011
Consumer Group Reporting Activision To UK Fair Trade Office Over Black Ops Glitches
Consumer Group Reporting Activision To UK Fair Trade Office Over Black Ops Glitches
An independent British consumer group is preparing to submit a formal complaint to the UK's Office of Fair Trading over alleged glitches in the PS3 and PC versions of Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Jan. 21, 2011
Pinball Construction Set Creator Bill Budge To Receive AIAS Pioneer Award
Pinball Construction Set Creator Bill Budge To Receive AIAS Pioneer Award
Bill Budge, creator of classics including Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set, has been named the second recipient of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Pioneer Award.
Jan. 21, 2011
PS3 Leads Japanese Charts As Sales Decline For Multiple Platforms
PS3 Leads Japanese Charts As Sales Decline For Multiple Platforms
In a week of declining sales across multiple platforms, Sony's PlayStation 3 led the Japanese hardware charts, while Nintendo platforms experiences the largest overall sales drop.
Jan. 21, 2011
Paradox Announces Salem, Free-To-Play MMORPG With Permadeath
Paradox Announces Salem, Free-To-Play MMORPG With Permadeath
Publisher Paradox Interactive announced Salem (tentative title), an upcoming free-to-play MMORPG that will feature Minecraft-like sandbox elements and permanent death for characters, releasing this year.
Jan. 21, 2011
Best Of Indie Games: Dreaming of Mystical Ninjas
Best Of Indie Games: Dreaming of Mystical Ninjas
IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. sums up some of the top indie games for the week, this time highlighting Mega Man-styled Ninja Senki, adventure game The Dream Machine and more.
Jan. 21, 2011
Bogost Aggressively Expands Cowclickification Platform
Bogost Aggressively Expands Cowclickification Platform
Building upon his popular social game satire Cow Clicker, Ian Bogost has launched a Cow Clicker platform offering a programmable API, a new Facebook game, an iPhone app, a Moogle search engine, and more.
Jan. 21, 2011
ThinkFun: Beat App Store Clones With Quality
ThinkFun: Beat App Store Clones With Quality
ThinkFun has had its games cloned on the iOS App Store, but has had little success getting the cloners to stop -- and instead aims to beat them with quality, company founder Bill Ritchie
Jan. 21, 2011
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of January 21
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of January 21
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Activision, Arkane Studios, Turbine, Inc.,
Jan. 21, 2011