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Top iPhone Game Apps: Air Penguin Leads App Store Pecking Order
Top iPhone Game Apps: Air Penguin Leads App Store Pecking Order
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Air Penguin and Tiny Wings to Angry Birds Rio and more.
April 19, 2011
SOCOM 4 To Charge Used Buyers $15 For Certain Game Types, Weapons
SOCOM 4 To Charge Used Buyers $15 For Certain Game Types, Weapons
Sony has announced that gamers who purchase a used copy of this month's SOCOM 4 will have to pay $14.99 for certain multiplayer game types and weapons that are included with new copies of the game.
April 19, 2011
Zynga Removes Second-Ranked Mafia Wars From MySpace
Zynga Removes Second-Ranked Mafia Wars From MySpace
Zynga has removed its popular text-based crime simulator Mafia Wars from MySpace, effective Monday, directing players to a Facebook-connected version of the game at MafiaWars.com instead.
April 19, 2011
MindJolt Buys SGN, Hallpass To Expand Mobile, Online Reach
MindJolt Buys SGN, Hallpass To Expand Mobile, Online Reach
MindJolt, the social game firm headed by MySpace founder and ex-CEO Chris DeWolfe, announced two acquisitions, social mobile game publisher SGN and online game network Hallpass Media.
April 19, 2011
Playfish Abandons Proprietary Virtual Currency For Facebook Credits
Playfish Abandons Proprietary Virtual Currency For Facebook Credits
Electronic Arts' social game subsidiary Playfish is abandoning its cross-game Playfish Cash system in favor of individual game currencies purchasable with Facebook Credits starting today.
April 19, 2011
Final Fantasy Developer: 'It Used To Be That Our Creativity Could Run Free'
Final Fantasy Developer: 'It Used To Be That Our Creativity Could Run Free'
Takashi Tokita, lead designer of 1991's Final Fantasy IV, and also lead designer of recent sequel The After Years, explains to Gamasutra in a new featur
April 19, 2011
GDC Europe 2011 Reveals Summit Advisory Boards, Main Board Additions
GDC Europe 2011 Reveals Summit Advisory Boards, Main Board Additions
GDC Europe 2011 organizers have revealed the emerging market Summit advisory board line-up, including luminaries from Playfish, Secret Exit, THQ, Rocket Pack, and SOE, also adding to its main board.
April 19, 2011
Enslaved, Blood Stone, Napoleon Nominated for Ivor Music Award
Enslaved, Blood Stone, Napoleon Nominated for Ivor Music Award
British video game composition, including nominees such as Ninja Theory's Enslaved, will be honored for the second time at this year's 56th annual Ivor Novello Awards, to be held May 19 in London.
April 19, 2011
E3 Golf Tournament to Raise Money for Child's Play Charity
E3 Golf Tournament to Raise Money for Child's Play Charity
Those heading to Los Angeles a couple days early for E3 might want to consider spending their Sunday on the green, as the ESA has organized the first annual Child's Play Invitational Golf Tournament.
April 19, 2011
Portal 2 Includes Source Engine 'Interactive Teaser' For Super 8 Film
Portal 2 Includes Source Engine 'Interactive Teaser' For Super 8 Film
In what may be an industry first, Portal 2 shipped today with an interactive advertising tie-in for the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed film Super 8. It appears to have been built by Valve itself using the Source Engine.
April 19, 2011
Report: Apple Makes Major App Store Ranking Changes
Report: Apple Makes Major App Store Ranking Changes
Apple has tweaked its App Store ranking algorithm to rank its top apps beyond traditionally-measured download numbers, according to an online report. [UPDATE: Crackdown on incentivized installs in progress.]
April 19, 2011
SANS Institute to teach VOIP security course for first time in Europe
SANS Institute to teach VOIP security course for first time in Europe
The SANS Institute has announced its intent to offer VOIP security courses in Europe for the first time. Plans call for the course to be offered at the institute's Amsterdam operations centre from May onwards.
April 19, 2011