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Top Android Game Apps: RoboDefense Overtakes Madden
Top Android Game Apps: RoboDefense Overtakes Madden
Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free gaming applications on the Android Market as of today, with RoboDefense, Cut the Rope, The Moron Test, and Madden NFL 12 currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
Sept. 19, 2011
Analysis: How Netflix Could Shake Up The Game Rental Business
Analysis: How Netflix Could Shake Up The Game Rental Business
Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris looks at how Netflix's recent decision to add video games to its rent-by-mail service could pose a threat to competitor GameFly and shake up the video game rental market significantly.
Sept. 19, 2011
TGS Sets Record With Over 222K Attendees
TGS Sets Record With Over 222K Attendees
The organizers of the Tokyo Game Show have announced that this year's show saw record attendance of 222,668 people across the four-day event, as well as a new single-day record of 86,251 on Saturday.
Sept. 19, 2011
Foldit Players Outperform Computer Models On Viral Protein Modeling
Foldit Players Outperform Computer Models On Viral Protein Modeling
Players of the online game Foldit have been able to determine the optimal structure of a protein that could prove key to the development of antiretroviral drugs to combat diseases like AIDS.
Sept. 19, 2011
Opinion: Know Your Middleware... Source Code Please!
Opinion: Know Your Middleware... Source Code Please!
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Yager Development's Andre Dittrich explains why knowing your middleware's source code is a must, and why middleware developers need to give their clients the source
Sept. 19, 2011
Analysis: Tokyo Game Show's Over -- What Of It?
Analysis: Tokyo Game Show's Over -- What Of It?
Another Gamasutra-attended Tokyo Game Show has wrapped -- what does it presage for the Japanese industry at large and, in particular, the region's fierce competition between mobile social games, the 3DS, and the PS Vita?
Sept. 19, 2011
Great British Writers' Guild Awards 2011 Shortlist Revealed
Great British Writers' Guild Awards 2011 Shortlist Revealed
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has revealed its shortlist for its 2011 awards, including the award for best video game writing, for which writers from the likes of Splash Damage and Ninja Theory are up for nomination.
Sept. 19, 2011
DC Universe Online Going Free-To-Play In October
DC Universe Online Going Free-To-Play In October
Sony Online Entertainment's DC Universe Online, first released in January of this year, is going free-to-play next month on both PC and PlayStation 3, with both free and subscription-based models available.
Sept. 19, 2011
PlayStation Vita Confirmed As Region-Free
PlayStation Vita Confirmed As Region-Free
Sony has confirmed that the upcoming PlayStation Vita will be region-free, allowing users to play games from different regions on any version of the PS Vita console, while also revealing prices for the console's memory cards.
Sept. 19, 2011
Netflix Renames Mail Service To Qwikster, Adds Game Rentals
Netflix Renames Mail Service To Qwikster, Adds Game Rentals
Netflix has announced that it will change the name of its DVD by mail service to Qwikster in a few weeks time, while also adding the option to rent video games for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii via the service.
Sept. 19, 2011
Minecraft-Like Xbox Live Indie FortressCraft Surpasses 500K Sales
Minecraft-Like Xbox Live Indie FortressCraft Surpasses 500K Sales
FortressCraft, the Xbox Live Indie Game inspired by Mojang's popular PC title Minecraft, surpassed half a million sales in total over the weekend, marking the first Xbox Live Indie Game to reach this milestone.
Sept. 19, 2011
Dead Island Holds Onto Top Of UK Charts For Second Week
Dead Island Holds Onto Top Of UK Charts For Second Week
Techland and Deep Silver's Dead Island held on to the top spot for the second week running in the UK software sales charts last week, with no new releases entering the charts.
Sept. 19, 2011