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Top iPhone game apps: Asphalt 7, Angry Birds Space trail Temple Run: Brave
Top iPhone game apps: Asphalt 7, Angry Birds Space trail Temple Run: Brave
Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Temple Run: Brave and Asphalt 7 to Flow Free and more.
June 25, 2012
Release This: Amazing Spider-Man, Spec Ops: The Line premiere stateside
Release This: Amazing Spider-Man, Spec Ops: The Line premiere stateside
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings The Amazing Spider-Man and Spec Ops: The Line to North America, while Europe gets Project Zero 2: Wii Edition.
June 25, 2012
Top Android game apps: Draw Something overtakes Temple Run: Brave
Top Android game apps: Draw Something overtakes Temple Run: Brave
Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free gaming applications on Google Play as of today, with Draw Something, Temple Run: Brave, and Jewels Legend currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
June 25, 2012
FFXI, Orochi 3, and more in this week's Japanese news roundup
FFXI, Orochi 3, and more in this week's Japanese news roundup
Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, including the release of Silicon Studio's Orochi 3 engine, high Pokemon Black and White 2 preorders, and more.
June 25, 2012
Analysis: How the 3DS XL update could boost Nintendo handheld sales
Analysis: How the 3DS XL update could boost Nintendo handheld sales
As Nintendo plans to release an XL version of its 3DS handheld, Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews looks at the previous fortunes of its predecessor the DS, and questions whether the 3DS XL can make an impact.
June 25, 2012
Nintendo's Fils-Aime: Gamers are impossible to satisfy
Nintendo's Fils-Aime: Gamers are impossible to satisfy
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is worried that the video game community is simply insatiable, and no matter what the publisher reveals in the future, gamers will never be fully satisfied.
June 25, 2012
Nexon aims for U.S. success with Steam free-to-play agreement
Nexon aims for U.S. success with Steam free-to-play agreement
Japan-headquartered online game publisher Nexon is looking to expand its North American business via a new agreement with Valve, which will see several of Nexon's free-to-play games launched via Steam.
June 25, 2012
Dragon's Dogma to become 'major franchise' for Capcom
Dragon's Dogma to become 'major franchise' for Capcom
Capcom said today that it plans to expand RPG Dragon's Dogma into a full franchise after the new IP managed to ship over 1 million units in a month.
June 25, 2012
Lego Batman 2 claims top of UK charts in opening week
Lego Batman 2 claims top of UK charts in opening week
Traveller’s Tales' Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes took to the top of the UK sales charts last week, knocking the previous week's number one, FIFA 12, down a place.
June 25, 2012
Final Fantasy veteran Tanaka leaves Square Enix
Final Fantasy veteran Tanaka leaves Square Enix
Japanese video game producer Hiromichi Tanaka, best known for his work on Final Fantasy XI, is leaving Square Enix after nearly 20 years at the company due, in part, to illness.
June 25, 2012
GDC Europe 2012 adds Google, Spec Ops, Daglow talks
GDC Europe 2012 adds Google, Spec Ops, Daglow talks
GDC Europe has debuted three new talks, featuring Google on the economics of the industry, Don Daglow on reaching North American audiences, and a look at Spec Ops: The Line's visual effects.
June 25, 2012
Kinect's next challenge is natural speech, says Rare engineer
Kinect's next challenge is natural speech, says Rare engineer
Microsoft first-party developer David Quinn, one of the foremost experts in the Kinect peripheral, tells Gamasutra that the next frontier for development for the device is including natural speech in games.
June 25, 2012