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Report: Take-Two shies away from its MLB 2K franchise
Report: Take-Two shies away from its MLB 2K franchise
With Take-Two's contract with the MLB about to expire, the publisher is not taking any action to renew the license for its MLB 2K titles, suggesting that it's done with that sports franchise altogether.
May 22, 2012
Most of Infinity Ward's top-paid staff jumped ship to Respawn Entertainment
Most of Infinity Ward's top-paid staff jumped ship to Respawn Entertainment
New court documents have revealed that Activision had a whopping $73 million bonus pool for Infinity Ward's staff in 2009, and most of the top-compensated staff have since joined Respawn Entertainment.
May 22, 2012
First-person shooter design: What to save, and what to frag
First-person shooter design: What to save, and what to frag
Six independent devs working on first-person shooters give Gamasutra sister site IndieGames.com their take on where the genre needs to head to avoid creative stagnation.
May 22, 2012
In-depth: Playing (with) video
In-depth: Playing (with) video
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, BitSquid co-founder Niklas Frykholm looks at the different options developers have for playing video in their games, and their pros and cons.
May 22, 2012
How to preserve games for the future? Recreate them
How to preserve games for the future? Recreate them
In a new Gamasutra feature, Stanford curator Henry Lowood admits while many games were not adequately preserved, or can never be, recreating data that they need to run is an option.
May 22, 2012
GDC Europe 2012 debuts new Mafia II, hacking, fundraising talks
GDC Europe 2012 debuts new Mafia II, hacking, fundraising talks
GDC Europe 2012 organizers have unveil new talks covering the multi-year development of 2K Czech's Mafia II, how to prevent online game hacking, and how to successfully raise the funds for your next game.
May 22, 2012
Bomb threat halts construction of NSA top-secret cybersecurity center
Bomb threat halts construction of NSA top-secret cybersecurity center
A bomb threat halted construction of the National Security Agency's top-secret cybersecurity intelligence center being built at Camp Williams, Utah.
May 22, 2012
Diablo III gaming accounts hacked, servers taken offline
Diablo III gaming accounts hacked, servers taken offline
Blizzard Entertainment’s newly launched Diablo III video game was hacked within a few days of its launch, and servers in Europe were taken offline for four hours on Sunday.
May 22, 2012
Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.5 adds playback studio, face tracking
Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.5 adds playback studio, face tracking
Microsoft has released the latest version of Kinect for Windows Runtime and SDK, featuring record and playback functionality and a face-tracking SDK that provides a real-time 3D mesh of facial features.
May 21, 2012
How Epic Games' week-long game jam gave birth to Infinity Blade: Dungeons
How Epic Games' week-long game jam gave birth to Infinity Blade: Dungeons
Epic Games executive producer Rod Fergusson tells Gamasutra about how an internal studio game jam last summer produced Epic’s first in-house mobile game, Infinity Blade: Dungeons.
May 21, 2012
Payday dev Overkill working with Valve on Left 4 Dead-styled collaboration
Payday dev Overkill working with Valve on Left 4 Dead-styled collaboration
Payday: The Heist developer Overkill Software is working on a collaboration with Valve, that it says will be a blend of Payday and Valve's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead.
May 21, 2012
Top iPhone game apps: Clear Vision takes on Flick Home Run
Top iPhone game apps: Clear Vision takes on Flick Home Run
Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Clear Vision and Flick Home Run to PipeRoll and more.
May 21, 2012