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Top-Grossing iOS Games: Free Poker Apps Top iPhone Charts
Top-Grossing iOS Games: Free Poker Apps Top iPhone Charts
Apple's latest U.S. App Store game charts by revenue see Zynga Poker and Texas earning top iPhone sales, while Smurfs' Village and Real Racing 2 HD emerge as big sellers on the iPad.
May 11, 2011
Critical Reception: Splash Damage's Brink
Critical Reception: Splash Damage's Brink
This week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to Splash Damage's class-based multiplayer shooter Brink, which "doesn't really live up to expectations," according to reviews.
May 11, 2011
Disney Interactive Posts Significant Losses For Second Quarter
Disney Interactive Posts Significant Losses For Second Quarter
Disney Interactive has posted significant losses of $115 million for the second quarter of this fiscal year, leading to overall Disney earnings being lower than expected, while noting that it doesn't expect profitability in interactive until 2013.
May 11, 2011
Live Gamer Partners With Skrill To Create Monetization Engine
Live Gamer Partners With Skrill To Create Monetization Engine
Online monetization platform Live Gamer has announced a partnership with Skrill, in aid of creating a monetization engine made especially for online game publishers.
May 11, 2011
Soul Calibur V Due For Release In 2012
Soul Calibur V Due For Release In 2012
Namco Bandai has revealed that the next title in the fighting game series Soul Calibur will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, and will be set 17 years after the previous outing.
May 11, 2011
Portal 2 Authoring Tools Beta Released
Portal 2 Authoring Tools Beta Released
Valve has released a beta version of the Authoring Tools for the PC version of its critically acclaimed first-person puzzler Portal 2, allowing players to create their own single player and co-op maps.
May 11, 2011
ArenaNet University's Approach To Real-World Experience
ArenaNet University's Approach To Real-World Experience
ArenaNet's Randall Price tells Gamasutra about the studio's ongoing "ArenaNet University" internship program, and about a "disconnect in what students were learning in the classroom and what is needed in the real world."
May 11, 2011
Minecraft Creator Mojang Mulling Vegas Conference
Minecraft Creator Mojang Mulling Vegas Conference
With paid sales of Minecraft's beta version approaching 2.2 million, developer Mojang says its considering hosting a MinecraftCon event in Las Vegas to celebrate the game's full launch this November.
May 11, 2011
U.S. Navy To Launch MMO Focused On Anti Sea-Pirate Strategies
U.S. Navy To Launch MMO Focused On Anti Sea-Pirate Strategies
The U.S. Navy will soon be launching an MMO project focused on simulating and crowdsourcing strategies for battling Somali sea pirates, the first simulation of its type and scale for the organization.
May 11, 2011
Ralph Baer Donates Papers To Strong Museum's Game History Center
Ralph Baer Donates Papers To Strong Museum's Game History Center
Magnavox Odyssey creator and video gaming pioneer Ralph Baer has donated decades worth of diagrams, schematics, notes and patent documents to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games.
May 11, 2011
Sourcebits Attracts $10M Investment For App, Game Development
Sourcebits Attracts $10M Investment For App, Game Development
Bangalore, India-based app and game development house Sourcebits has secured its first round of funding, a $10 million investment from Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures India.
May 11, 2011
Opinion: So You Want To Be A Graphics Programmer
Opinion: So You Want To Be A Graphics Programmer
Veteran game developer Keith Judge discusses the best ways to get a job as a graphics programmer in the video games industry, in this #altdevblogaday-reprinted opinion piece.
May 11, 2011