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Media Create Disappointed With Japanese PS Vita Opening Week Sales
Media Create Disappointed With Japanese PS Vita Opening Week Sales
Following the launch of the PlayStation Vita handheld console in Japan, tracking firm Media Create has stated that it is disappointed with the opening weekend sales figures for the latest Sony hardware release.
Dec. 21, 2011
Daily Android Device Activations Top 700K
Daily Android Device Activations Top 700K
Google's SVP Andy Rubin has revealed that over 700,000 new Android devices are now activated every single day, compared to the 550,000 figure given in July earlier this year.
Dec. 21, 2011
MoMinis Encourages App Discovery With 50-In-One Android Game
MoMinis Encourages App Discovery With 50-In-One Android Game
Israeli mobile gaming company MoMinis this week launched PlayScape, an Android app featuring 50 free-to-play games that share a unified virtual rewards system.
Dec. 21, 2011
6waves Lolapps Makes Mobile Debut
6waves Lolapps Makes Mobile Debut
Social developer and publisher 6waves Lolapps stepped into the mobile realm this week with the launch of Yeti Town and Splode, both free-to-play iOS titles developed by the Dallas-based Escalation Studios.
Dec. 21, 2011
Indies: Your Players Are Not Your Audience
Indies: Your Players Are Not Your Audience
In today's Gamasutra feature, Spilt Milk Studios iOS developer Andrew J. Smith (Hard Lines) writes that appealing to the platform holder has as much to do
Dec. 21, 2011
Opinion: How You Can Learn From Our Mistakes
Opinion: How You Can Learn From Our Mistakes
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, game design student Rob Braun shares the challenges of an inexperienced group taking on a game project for their university's Video Game Design Club.
Dec. 21, 2011
IGF 2012 Reveals Visual Art, Audio, Mobile Jury Panels
IGF 2012 Reveals Visual Art, Audio, Mobile Jury Panels
IGF 2012 has announced the second set of discipline-specific jury panels that will determine the finalists and winner of its various awards, following Design, Tech, and Nuovo juries
Dec. 21, 2011
GDC 2012 Debuts 200+ Sessions, Including Gears 3, Ninja Theory Talks
GDC 2012 Debuts 200+ Sessions, Including Gears 3, Ninja Theory Talks
GDC 2012 organizers have debuted 200+ GDC sessions in its Schedule Builder, including an art postmortem for Gears of War 3 and Ninja Theory's approach to motion capture.
Dec. 21, 2011
Finally, Flash Support Comes To Unity
Finally, Flash Support Comes To Unity
Unity game developers will soon be able to export their applications to Adobe's Flash, a platform that Unity CEO David Helgason tells Gamasutra is not going away anytime soon.
Dec. 21, 2011
Hackerazzi use Lady Gaga’s Twitter account to scam her ‘little monsters’
Hackerazzi use Lady Gaga’s Twitter account to scam her ‘little monsters’
Hackers broke into pop star Lady Gaga’s Twitter account and broadcasted a link to a scam offer for free iPad 2s to her 17 million fans, whom she calls “little monsters.”
Dec. 21, 2011
Kabam's Social Games Come To Desktops Through Pokki
Kabam's Social Games Come To Desktops Through Pokki
Kabam has made several of its core-targeted social games available as desktop applications for the first time, using SweetLabs' Pokki platform to convert the online titles into PC apps.
Dec. 20, 2011
Older Gamers More Likely To Buy Virtual Goods, Suggests Study
Older Gamers More Likely To Buy Virtual Goods, Suggests Study
While younger gamers spend more time playing mobile social games, older players are more likely to buy virtual goods and spend more on them, according to a study by MocoSpace.
Dec. 20, 2011