News

Discounts Drive Dance Games, Kinect Sports 2 To Top Of Amazon Black Friday Charts
Discounts Drive Dance Games, Kinect Sports 2 To Top Of Amazon Black Friday Charts
Analyst group Cowen and Company estimates the top selling U.S. video games during Amazon's Black Friday sales, while also suggesting that these titles will be the highest-selling games of the holiday season.
Nov. 28, 2011
3DS Mario, Wii Zelda Sell Over 500K In November
3DS Mario, Wii Zelda Sell Over 500K In November
Nintendo has revealed that the 3DS' Super Mario 3D Land and the Wii's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword have sold over 500,000 copies, helping drive recent hardware sales as well.
Nov. 28, 2011
UK Government Offers Support For Game Industry-Backed Education Plan
UK Government Offers Support For Game Industry-Backed Education Plan
The UK government has offered its support for a "Next Gen" plan of game industry-backed recommendations to improve computer science and information technology education in the country.
Nov. 28, 2011
Social Games Publisher SNS+ Raises $12.5M In Funding
Social Games Publisher SNS+ Raises $12.5M In Funding
Social game publisher SNS Plus, also known as SNS+, has raised $4 million in its latest funding round, bringing total investment to $12.5 million, with the goal to increase its influence in the social gaming market.
Nov. 28, 2011
Modern Warfare 3 Tops UK Charts For Third Consecutive Week
Modern Warfare 3 Tops UK Charts For Third Consecutive Week
For the third consecutive week since its launch, Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 topped the UK software sales charts, despite a 41 percent drop in sales week-over-week.
Nov. 28, 2011
Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean, Just Dance 2 Win At 2011 BAFTA Children's Awards
Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean, Just Dance 2 Win At 2011 BAFTA Children's Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has revealed the winners of its Children's Awards 2011, including a number of video game awards, from Just Dance 2 to sex education game Privates.
Nov. 28, 2011
Reports Raise Concern Over Zynga's Future
Reports Raise Concern Over Zynga's Future
A pair of recent media reports are raising concerns about Zynga's ability to handle disgruntled employees and maintain player growth as the company approaches a highly anticipated stock IPO.
Nov. 28, 2011
Opinion: Organic Game Design
Opinion: Organic Game Design
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, The Game Atlas' Stuart Urback discusses how organic architecture can apply to game design, analyzing the organic nature of four games.
Nov. 28, 2011
Fastest-Growing Facebook Games: From CastleVille To Storage Wars
Fastest-Growing Facebook Games: From CastleVille To Storage Wars
Gamasutra's bi-weekly look at the fastest-growing Facebook titles examines recently popular games like Zynga's latest title CastleVille, and A&E Networks Digital social game adaptation for TV's Storage Wars.
Nov. 28, 2011
This Week In Japanese News: From Kinect Sales To Game Archives
This Week In Japanese News: From Kinect Sales To Game Archives
Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, including Kinect's Japanese sales a year after its launch, no support for Game Archives when PS Vita launches, and m
Nov. 28, 2011
How A Baseball Pitcher And Comics Writer Work On Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning
How A Baseball Pitcher And Comics Writer Work On Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning
As part of a new Gamasutra feature interview, art director Tim Coman talks about how Todd McFarlane and Curt Schilling make their contributions to the content an
Nov. 28, 2011
Four people arrested in connection with US terrorist-funded PBX hacking
Four people arrested in connection with US terrorist-funded PBX hacking
The FBI has revealed that four hackers were arrested in the Philippines last week in connection with an organized attack on the clients of telecoms giant AT&T in the US. Newswire reports suggest that the hacker crew was funded by terrorists linked to an Al Qaeda group that carried out the Bali bombings in 2002 and which killed 202 people.
Nov. 28, 2011