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With the App Store flooded, is partnering with a publisher becoming necessary?
With the App Store flooded, is partnering with a publisher becoming necessary?
The days of developers releasing their mobile or social games without publishers and finding success are over, argues Electronic Arts founder and Digital Chocolate head Trip Hawkins.
May 4, 2012
Your game industry in your words: Week of May 4
Your game industry in your words: Week of May 4
Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from industry figures such as Creative Assembly's Tim Heaton, Sony Santa Monica's Chris Sutton, Naughty Dog's Richard Lemarchand, and many others in this weekly roundup.
May 4, 2012
In-depth: SQL server performance
In-depth: SQL server performance
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, EEDAR's chief information officer Ted Spence shares some useful performance tuning lessons he's picked up with SQL over the years.
May 4, 2012
Zynga.com grows to 2.8M monthly active users in 2 months
Zynga.com grows to 2.8M monthly active users in 2 months
Social games giant Zynga has seen steady user growth for its Zynga.com games platform since it launched in March, with monthly active users now up to 2.8 million and 420,000 daily active users.
May 4, 2012
RIM reveals Game Center style social hub for BlackBerry devices
RIM reveals Game Center style social hub for BlackBerry devices
As part of RIM's new focus on the mobile gaming market, it has revealed a new standalone app that will act as a social hub for BlackBerry devices and the upcoming BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system.
May 4, 2012
Miyamoto: Lack of PS Vita software is weakening handheld's prospects
Miyamoto: Lack of PS Vita software is weakening handheld's prospects
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed his thoughts on the PS Vita handheld, stating that, while it's clearly a powerful device, it's suffering from the same lack of software that the 3DS also originally saw.
May 4, 2012
Draw 'Doritos': Zynga's Draw Something has players draw ads
Draw 'Doritos': Zynga's Draw Something has players draw ads
"People loved to draw the Colonel and bags of Doritos," says Dan Porter, head of Zynga-owned Draw Something developer Omgpop. Companies can now buy in-game terms for users to draw.
May 4, 2012
UK retailer HMV confident of swing to profits next year as it posts notable losses
UK retailer HMV confident of swing to profits next year as it posts notable losses
UK retailer HMV has posted financial results for the last fiscal year, with a notable decline in revenue and significant losses, although the results signify an improvement over previous forecasts.
May 4, 2012
LOIC DDoS tool – is it 'safe' for the user?
LOIC DDoS tool – is it 'safe' for the user?
The DDoS weapon of choice for Anonymous activists, the Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC), was downloaded from the internet 381,961 times during 2011. That number has already been exceeded in 2012, with daily downloads averaging more than 3400.
May 4, 2012
The UK Protection of Freedoms Bill this week; telecommunications surveillance next week?
The UK Protection of Freedoms Bill this week; telecommunications surveillance next week?
A major plank of both the Conservative and LibDem election campaigns was to ‘roll back the database state’ and curtail invasive bureaucratic surveillance. But has the Coalition achieved this? And what about the proposed communications monitoring bill?
May 4, 2012
OpBayBack announced by Anonymous look-alike: TheWikiBoat
OpBayBack announced by Anonymous look-alike: TheWikiBoat
It was only a matter of time before one hacktivist group or another would react to the UK court-ordered ISP block on The Pirate Bay.
May 4, 2012
MoD admits hackers have breached top secret systems
MoD admits hackers have breached top secret systems
Hackers have breached some of the top secret UK Ministry of Defence computer systems, the military's head of cybersecurity has revealed.
May 4, 2012