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Apple Offers Timed Subscription Plans For iOS App Content
Apple Offers Timed Subscription Plans For iOS App Content
With in-app purchases becoming an increasingly important revenue stream, Apple announced today the wide availability of timed subscriptions for in-app content, allowing game makers a new way to distribute their downloadable content.
Feb. 15, 2011
First Amendment Protections For Games At Issue In EA Player Likeness Appeals
First Amendment Protections For Games At Issue In EA Player Likeness Appeals
First Amendment arguments once again took center stage during an appeals court discussion of two related lawsuits regarding the unauthorized use of player likenesses in EA Sports games.
Feb. 15, 2011
Riccitiello Talks Turning EA Around, Old Republic's Prospects
Riccitiello Talks Turning EA Around, Old Republic's Prospects
EA CEO John Riccitiello talks getting Electronic Arts on track, saying Star Wars: The Old Republic is "going right at" WoW's marketshare and discussing why the company "dropped the ball" in the console transition.
Feb. 15, 2011
Atari Revenues Down Significantly As Company Shifts To Online Focus
Atari Revenues Down Significantly As Company Shifts To Online Focus
Atari's (Champions Online) revenues for the 2010 holiday quarter were down by more than half, as the company focused on "selling fewer but more profitable games" and an online focus.
Feb. 15, 2011
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Handling Feature Creep To Crafting A Fair Fight
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Handling Feature Creep To Crafting A Fair Fight
In highlights from Gamasutra's Member Blogs, our bloggers write about diverse topics, including how to deal with feature creep, and how games don't always play fair.
Feb. 15, 2011
DeNA Rebrands MobageTown To Prepare For Global Expansion
DeNA Rebrands MobageTown To Prepare For Global Expansion
Japanese mobile social network operator and game developer DeNA announced a rebranding for its popular MobageTown service to just "Mobage", and unveiled a new logo with English text.
Feb. 15, 2011
APB: Reloaded Receives Over 100,000 Beta Registrations
APB: Reloaded Receives Over 100,000 Beta Registrations
GamersFirst subsidiary Reloaded Productions revealed that more than 100,000 gamers have registered to play the upcoming closed beta for the re-launch of beleaguered MMO third-person shooter All Points Bulletin.
Feb. 15, 2011
Feature: Sword & Poker And How Video Games Address Time
Feature: Sword & Poker And How Video Games Address Time
Former Edge magazine editor Margaret Robertson extracts five minutes of play with Gaia's iPhone game Sword & Poker, leading to a deeper examination of time in v
Feb. 15, 2011
In-Depth: Kajiya Productions On The Art Of Localizing Tactics Ogre
In-Depth: Kajiya Productions On The Art Of Localizing Tactics Ogre
In his Gamasutra interview, we catch up with veteran game and novel translator Alexander O. Smith to discuss his firm's work localizing Square Enix's just-debuted Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together for the PlayStation Portable.
Feb. 15, 2011
Two Key Execs Leave EA Playfish
Two Key Execs Leave EA Playfish
Two key Playfish executives, chief operating officer Sebastien de Halleux and development and tech head Sami Lababidi, will be leaving the company, although they are expected to remain on as consultants.
Feb. 15, 2011
RSA Security: Commtouch intros unified security engine
RSA Security: Commtouch intros unified security engine
It's day two of the RSA Conference in San Francisco and Commtouch has taken the wraps off what it claims is the industry's first unified engine that combines three internet security technologies.
Feb. 15, 2011
New York City hospital system admits to massive data breach
New York City hospital system admits to massive data breach
The New York City Health and Hospital Corp. (HHC) said that personal information of nearly 1.7 million hospital patients, staff, vendors, and contractors was stolen from a GRM Management Information Services van.
Feb. 15, 2011