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Perfect World Shows Improved Financials After Recent Game Launches
Perfect World Shows Improved Financials After Recent Game Launches
Major Chinese MMO maker Perfect World announced that some recent releases helped increase revenues for the first quarter of 2011 and drove profits higher than the the same period in 2010.
May 24, 2011
Ghost Recon Online To Take Series Free-To-Play
Ghost Recon Online To Take Series Free-To-Play
Ubisoft today announced Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online, a new free-to-play entry in the popular military action series being developed at the company's Singapore studio.
May 24, 2011
Android Minecraft Coming To Xperia Play First
Android Minecraft Coming To Xperia Play First
Minecraft developer Mojang has confirmed to Gamasutra that the previously revealed Android version of its PC indie hit will be arriving on Sony Ericsson's PlayStation-certified Xperia Play before other phones.
May 24, 2011
Feature: Unsocial Games
Feature: Unsocial Games
In Gamasutra's latest feature, veteran developer Greg Costikyan dissects social games and examines how developers give "no thought whatsoever" to using their social nature to
May 24, 2011
Epic, Insomniac, And More Talk Growth In Roundtable In North Carolina's Triangle
Epic, Insomniac, And More Talk Growth In Roundtable In North Carolina's Triangle
Today at a Gamasutra-attended roundtable discussion, leading lights of the game industry discussed how being based in the Raleigh-Durham area helps them overcome global challenges.
May 24, 2011
GDC China 2011 Reminds On May 25th Lecture Submission Deadline
GDC China 2011 Reminds On May 25th Lecture Submission Deadline
The organizers of the fourth Game Developers Conference China (GDC China), to be held in Shanghai this November, are alerting submitters to the May 25 deadline for lecture submissions from We
May 24, 2011
GDC Online Adds Riot, PopCap, Playdom, Blizzard Veterans To Advisory Board
GDC Online Adds Riot, PopCap, Playdom, Blizzard Veterans To Advisory Board
GDC Online organizers have revealed new advisory board members from companies including Playdom, ngmoco, PopCap, Zynga, CCP, Blizzard and Riot Games for this October's Austin, Texas-based conference.
May 24, 2011
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Death Rooms To World-Building
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Death Rooms To World-Building
In highlights from Gamasutra's Member Blogs, our bloggers write about diverse topics, including death rooms, QA testing for motion games, and advice on world-building.
May 24, 2011
Unreal Engine Adds GRIP System For Actor 'Extras' Integration
Unreal Engine Adds GRIP System For Actor 'Extras' Integration
GRIP Entertainment's D.E.S. engine has been added to Unreal Engine 3 as part of the latter's Integrated Partners Program, giving game authors new tools for adding secondary character "extras" to their products.
May 24, 2011
Unity Surpasses 500K Registered Developers
Unity Surpasses 500K Registered Developers
Registered developer accounts for Unity Technologies and its Unity 3D games engine have surpassed half a million, the company announced Tuesday -- more than double where they were a year ago.
May 24, 2011
Take-Two On PSN Outage, Duke's Expectations, The NBA Lockout
Take-Two On PSN Outage, Duke's Expectations, The NBA Lockout
Following up on its fiscal 2011 results, executives from Take-Two Interactive provided additional color on subjects ranging from
May 24, 2011
Take-Two: L.A. Noire First Week 'Very Successful'
Take-Two: L.A. Noire First Week 'Very Successful'
In a Gamasutra-attended conference call, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said that while it was too early for exact numbers, Rockstar's L.A. Noire release was a win all around.
May 24, 2011