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Angry Birds Rio Attracts 10 Million Downloads In Ten Days
Angry Birds Rio Attracts 10 Million Downloads In Ten Days
Rovio's Angry Birds Rio, the movie-branded follow-up to mobile mega-hit Angry Birds, has been downloaded 10 million times in the ten days since its March 22 release.
April 1, 2011
Interview: SOE's Smedley On The Company's Future
Interview: SOE's Smedley On The Company's Future
Gamasutra talks to Sony Online Entertainment's John Smedley about the next generation of EverQuest, NGP development and why "You can bet our future is more console-based than it is PC-based."
April 1, 2011
3DS Leads Weekly Japanese Hardware Sales As PSP Closes The Gap
3DS Leads Weekly Japanese Hardware Sales As PSP Closes The Gap
The Nintendo 3DS led the Japanese hardware charts this week, while the PSP nearly caught up with the recently-released handheld in terms of sales on a weekly basis, reports tracking firm Media Create.
April 1, 2011
Viximo Adds Orkut To Social Games Distribution Network
Viximo Adds Orkut To Social Games Distribution Network
Viximo, a platform distributing games and apps to social networks beyond Facebook, has added Google's Orkut community to its partner network, and will soon launch three titles on the site including LOLapps' Ravenwood Fair.
April 1, 2011
Chinese Firm UltiZen Buys Red Entertainment
Chinese Firm UltiZen Buys Red Entertainment
Chinese online game firm UltiZen announced its acquisition of Tokyo-based developer Red Entertainment (Sakura Wars series), which will now work on smartphone and online games with its new parent company.
April 1, 2011
Best Of Indie Games: Sunshine on a Hot Spring Day
Best Of Indie Games: Sunshine on a Hot Spring Day
IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. rounds up the week's top indie games, including a bug-based arcade title, a clever block-shifting puzzler and an addictive iPhone management game.
April 1, 2011
Square Enix: Resumption Of Final Fantasy XIV Subscription Fees 'Still Out In The Open'
Square Enix: Resumption Of Final Fantasy XIV Subscription Fees 'Still Out In The Open'
Since its problematic launch, Final Fantasy XIV has been free-to-play -- with no fees whatsoever -- and in Gamasutra's latest feature, producer Naoki Yoshida e
April 1, 2011
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of April 1
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of April 1
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Telltale, Sucker Punch, Sony San Diego, and
April 1, 2011
Sony Hardware Beat Nintendo During 2010 As Japan's Market Declines 14%
Sony Hardware Beat Nintendo During 2010 As Japan's Market Declines 14%
Both Sony's console and its portable hardware beat Nintendo's in Japan for the first year ever during 2010, with Pokemon Black & White leading software as the country's game market sees a 14 percent decline.
April 1, 2011
Inafune Forms Two New Companies, Intercept And Comcept
Inafune Forms Two New Companies, Intercept And Comcept
Former Capcom head of development Keiji Inafune has gone on to found two new companies: a game production company called Intercept, and a business and planning organization called Comcept.
April 1, 2011
Chinese RSA attack domains designed to taunt US government
Chinese RSA attack domains designed to taunt US government
The silence from RSA over the hack of its servers a couple of weeks ago has been close to deafening, but now it seems that the rumours surrounding the attack are starting to gel. According to one security researcher, the domain names used for the RSA attack were clearly designed to taunt the current US administration.
April 1, 2011
Android trojan publicly ridicules downloaders
Android trojan publicly ridicules downloaders
Google Android users are being warned about a 'free' version of the popular Walk and Text app, a piece of software that allows users to view what is in front of them whilst they are texting.
April 1, 2011