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This Week In Video Game Criticism: From Cruel Mathematics To The Wire
This Week In Video Game Criticism: From Cruel Mathematics To The Wire
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Ian Miles Cheong on topics including who killed video games, comparisons between The Wire and Demon's Souls
Oct. 4, 2011
DeNA Expands Into Latin America With Latest Acquisition
DeNA Expands Into Latin America With Latest Acquisition
Tokyo-based social and mobile gaming giant DeNA announced today that it has acquired Chile-based developer Atakama Labs, best known for Facebook RPG Little Cave Hero.
Oct. 4, 2011
NPD: Kids' Digital Game Spending Up 17% In Last Two Years
NPD: Kids' Digital Game Spending Up 17% In Last Two Years
A report released Tuesday from market research company NPD Group has found that digital spending on video games by kids has increased by 17 percent over the last two years.
Oct. 4, 2011
Movie Game Tie-In Helps Future Games Of London To 25M User Base
Movie Game Tie-In Helps Future Games Of London To 25M User Base
Mobile developer Future Games of London revealed today that it userbase has increased by 25 percent in the last eight weeks, up from 20 million to 25 million users, due in part to the launch of Hungry Shark Night.
Oct. 4, 2011
MocoSpace Acquires Location-Based Games Platform Geocade
MocoSpace Acquires Location-Based Games Platform Geocade
Mobile game community MocoSpace has acquired location-based social games platform Geocade, and will now see Geocade founder Jim Caralis joining as its HTML5 game platform vice president.
Oct. 4, 2011
Opinion: A Pre-commit Checklist
Opinion: A Pre-commit Checklist
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Haemimont Games' technical director Ivan-Assen Ivanov offers a useful checklist full of important questions programmers should ask themselves when bugfixing.
Oct. 4, 2011
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Singularity To Game Artists
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Singularity To Game Artists
In highlights from Gamasutra's Member Blogs, our bloggers write about diverse topics, such as choice and singularity, seven things you should never say to a game artist, what indies can learn from
Oct. 4, 2011
FIFA 12 Breaks Sports Games Records With 3.2M First Week Sell-Through
FIFA 12 Breaks Sports Games Records With 3.2M First Week Sell-Through
Electronic Arts' latest soccer simulation FIFA 12 broke previous launch records for sports games in its first week on the market, with a sell through of 3.2 million units, the company said.
Oct. 4, 2011
EA Sues EA
EA Sues EA
Florida-based fitness supply company Energy Armor is intentionally deceiving consumers with a trapezoidal "EA" logo similar to that used by Electronic Arts, the game publisher recently told a California court.
Oct. 4, 2011
Braben: Don't Underestimate Power Of Focus Testing
Braben: Don't Underestimate Power Of Focus Testing
In support of focus testing, David Braben, head of Kinectimals studio Frontier tells Gamasutra, "As soon as your audience includes people who aren't you, you absol
Oct. 4, 2011
Resident Evil: Raccoon City Dev Licenses Donya's LOD Tool
Resident Evil: Raccoon City Dev Licenses Donya's LOD Tool
Slant Six Games, the Vancouver, BC studio developing the upcoming Resident Evil: Raccoon City, has licensed Donya's level of detail (LOD) solution Simplygon to increase graphical performance.
Oct. 4, 2011
Microsoft Officially Cans Zune Media Player
Microsoft Officially Cans Zune Media Player
After a steep uphill battle against Apple's dominant iPod line and iOS devices, Microsoft officially confirmed that it will "no longer be producing Zune players," instead focusing game, music and video strategy on Windows Phone.
Oct. 4, 2011