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Sega Sammy Alters Half-Year Forecast Due To 'Weak' Game Sales
Sega Sammy Alters Half-Year Forecast Due To 'Weak' Game Sales
Sega Sammy has altered its financial forecast for the first half of the current fiscal year, noting a drop in expected revenue due to "weak" sales of new game titles, but an increase in profits.
Oct. 5, 2011
Keiji Inafune's Intercept Reveals 3DS Pirate Game
Keiji Inafune's Intercept Reveals 3DS Pirate Game
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune has revealed the first console game in development from his new Intercept studio, an action adventure game for Nintendo 3DS called King of Pirates.
Oct. 5, 2011
L.A. Noire Dev Team Bondi To Officially Shutter
L.A. Noire Dev Team Bondi To Officially Shutter
Documents filed today through the Australian Securities And Investments Commission reveal that L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi is in the process of closing down fully.
Oct. 5, 2011
European PSN Import Store Launches With Arc the Lad, Cho Aniki
European PSN Import Store Launches With Arc the Lad, Cho Aniki
Import publisher MonkeyPaw Games today announced the launch of the Japanese import section on the European PlayStation Network, with three classic titles now available.
Oct. 5, 2011
Video Games Enhancing Physical Therapy For ICU Patients
Video Games Enhancing Physical Therapy For ICU Patients
A new medical research report from research facility Johns Hopkins has found that interactive video games can be utilized to enhance physical therapy in intensive care units.
Oct. 5, 2011
Sony Launches Ambitious 'Long Live Play' PlayStation Marketing Campaign
Sony Launches Ambitious 'Long Live Play' PlayStation Marketing Campaign
Sony launched its new ongoing "Long Live Play" marketing campaign for its PlayStation division on Wednesday with an elaborate commercial starring a wide assortment of video game stars.
Oct. 5, 2011
Interview: Behind Ubisoft's Aggressive Kinect Holiday Push
Interview: Behind Ubisoft's Aggressive Kinect Holiday Push
In the gaming world, 2010's hot item Kinect is old news going into its second holiday, but Ubisoft's Tony Key tells Gamasutra why Ubisoft has "many more Kinect games than we did last year coming for this holiday."
Oct. 5, 2011
Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies
Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died Wednesday after a private seven-year battle with serious health issues, the company confirmed this afternoon. He was 56 years old.
Oct. 5, 2011
comScore: 29% Of U.S. Mobile Phone Subscribers Play Mobile Games
comScore: 29% Of U.S. Mobile Phone Subscribers Play Mobile Games
An ongoing survey of more than 30,000 mobile phone owners in the United States has revealed that the amount of people playing games is slowly on the rise, up 1.6 percent between May and August.
Oct. 5, 2011
GameCareerGuide: Kids Challenge Ends As Hometown Challenge Begins
GameCareerGuide: Kids Challenge Ends As Hometown Challenge Begins
Gamasutra sister site GameCareerGuide has posted the results of a challenge posed to its readers – to create a game designed for young children – while beginning a new one asking readers to create a game based on their hometown.
Oct. 5, 2011
Ninja Theory: 'Self-Destructive Protectionism' Slowing Digital Revolution
Ninja Theory: 'Self-Destructive Protectionism' Slowing Digital Revolution
Tameem Antoniades, chief creative officer of Enslaved and DmC studio Ninja Theory tells Gamasutra there are "artificial constraints on the digital cha
Oct. 5, 2011
GDC China 2011 Debuts Square Enix, Kabam, HTML5 Sessions
GDC China 2011 Debuts Square Enix, Kabam, HTML5 Sessions
GDC China has debuted new lectures for November's Shanghai event, featuring Square Enix CTO Julien Merceron on tech development for major publishers, Kabam on blending MMOs and social games, and more.
Oct. 5, 2011