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Ex-2K Designers Form Uppercut Games, Announce Epoch
Ex-2K Designers Form Uppercut Games, Announce Epoch
Two former 2K Games designers have founded a new independent development studio called Uppercut Games, with the aim to create "AAA quality" mobile and downloadable games.
July 11, 2011
Zumba Fitness Tops UK Retail Sales Charts For Fourth Consecutive Week
Zumba Fitness Tops UK Retail Sales Charts For Fourth Consecutive Week
Pipeworks and 505 Games' Zumba Fitness once again took the top spot in the UK retail software sales charts last week, marking its seventh week at number one, and its fourth week in a row at the top.
July 11, 2011
Strategy War Titles Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Strategy War Titles Lead Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
Gamasutra's bi-weekly look at the fastest-growing Facebook titles examines the recent popularity of turn-based strategy war games, such as Zynga's Empires & Allies and Kabam's similar release Global Warfare.
July 11, 2011
Sony Europe To Publish Bollywood Tie-In Game
Sony Europe To Publish Bollywood Tie-In Game
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will publish a tie-in game for the highly anticipated upcoming Hindi science fiction superhero movie Ra.One for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, the company said Monday.
July 11, 2011
CityEngine Maker Procedural Acquired
CityEngine Maker Procedural Acquired
Geographic information company Esri has acquired Procedural, the company behind 3D city modeling tool CityEngine, the company said Monday. CityEngine is used by Rockstar, THQ, Blizzard and others.
July 11, 2011
Electroplankton Team Developing Final Fantasy Rhythm Game
Electroplankton Team Developing Final Fantasy Rhythm Game
Indies Zero, the studio responsible for Electroplankton and Retro Game Challenge, is developing Square Enix's upcoming Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, the company revealed Monday.
July 11, 2011
Student Hit Octodad's Developers Crowdfunding Sequel
Student Hit Octodad's Developers Crowdfunding Sequel
The DePaul Game Dev students behind last year's indie hit Octodad have incorporated a new studio, called Young Horses, and are crowdfunding a sequal to the game via Kickstarter.
July 11, 2011
Game Developer Debuts Free 2011 Game Career Guide Issue
Game Developer Debuts Free 2011 Game Career Guide Issue
For the fourth year running, Game Developer magazine is giving away for free its annual Game Career Guide issue, including an Octodad postmortem, salary survey detai
July 11, 2011
GDC Europe 2011 Debuts Thatgamecompany, Glu, Digital Chocolate Talks
GDC Europe 2011 Debuts Thatgamecompany, Glu, Digital Chocolate Talks
GDC Europe has revealed a selection of new lectures from the show's Summits, including Thatgamecompany on reaching out to new audiences and Digital Chocolate on making social games with hardcore gameplay.
July 11, 2011
Treyarch: 12 To 16 Months Development For Black Ops Anti-Cheating Measures
Treyarch: 12 To 16 Months Development For Black Ops Anti-Cheating Measures
In a new feature interview with Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer lead Dan Bunting, he tells Gamasutra that experiences on prior series titles mandated a "bi
July 11, 2011
Google+ users hit by spam glitch as social network announces business feature
Google+ users hit by spam glitch as social network announces business feature
Early adopters of Google+ have been hit by an avalanche of e-mail notifications, due to a glitch in the system.
July 11, 2011
Fortinet reveals Android SMS-stealing malware methodology
Fortinet reveals Android SMS-stealing malware methodology
A Fortinet IT security researcher has revealed the methodology being used by Zitmo, one of the latest generations of SMS-interception and stealing malware infections seen on the Android platform.
July 11, 2011