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Analysis: Tokyo Game Show's Over -- What Of It?
Analysis: Tokyo Game Show's Over -- What Of It?
Another Gamasutra-attended Tokyo Game Show has wrapped -- what does it presage for the Japanese industry at large and, in particular, the region's fierce competition between mobile social games, the 3DS, and the PS Vita?
Sept. 19, 2011
Great British Writers' Guild Awards 2011 Shortlist Revealed
Great British Writers' Guild Awards 2011 Shortlist Revealed
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has revealed its shortlist for its 2011 awards, including the award for best video game writing, for which writers from the likes of Splash Damage and Ninja Theory are up for nomination.
Sept. 19, 2011
DC Universe Online Going Free-To-Play In October
DC Universe Online Going Free-To-Play In October
Sony Online Entertainment's DC Universe Online, first released in January of this year, is going free-to-play next month on both PC and PlayStation 3, with both free and subscription-based models available.
Sept. 19, 2011
PlayStation Vita Confirmed As Region-Free
PlayStation Vita Confirmed As Region-Free
Sony has confirmed that the upcoming PlayStation Vita will be region-free, allowing users to play games from different regions on any version of the PS Vita console, while also revealing prices for the console's memory cards.
Sept. 19, 2011
Netflix Renames Mail Service To Qwikster, Adds Game Rentals
Netflix Renames Mail Service To Qwikster, Adds Game Rentals
Netflix has announced that it will change the name of its DVD by mail service to Qwikster in a few weeks time, while also adding the option to rent video games for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii via the service.
Sept. 19, 2011
Minecraft-Like Xbox Live Indie FortressCraft Surpasses 500K Sales
Minecraft-Like Xbox Live Indie FortressCraft Surpasses 500K Sales
FortressCraft, the Xbox Live Indie Game inspired by Mojang's popular PC title Minecraft, surpassed half a million sales in total over the weekend, marking the first Xbox Live Indie Game to reach this milestone.
Sept. 19, 2011
Dead Island Holds Onto Top Of UK Charts For Second Week
Dead Island Holds Onto Top Of UK Charts For Second Week
Techland and Deep Silver's Dead Island held on to the top spot for the second week running in the UK software sales charts last week, with no new releases entering the charts.
Sept. 19, 2011
Syndicate Reboot's Starbreeze Working With Swedish Director On New IP
Syndicate Reboot's Starbreeze Working With Swedish Director On New IP
Starbreeze Studios, the company behind the upcoming Syndicate reboot, revealed today that it is working on a new, as-of-yet unannounced IP with a top Swedish film director.
Sept. 19, 2011
Street Fighter IV Coming to Android, LG Gets Timed Exclusive
Street Fighter IV Coming to Android, LG Gets Timed Exclusive
An Android version of Capcom's Street Fighter IV will be available exclusively on LG's upcoming HD smartphone for three months after its release sometime in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Sept. 19, 2011
Feature: Gears Of War's Storytelling Tools
Feature: Gears Of War's Storytelling Tools
In a new Gamasutra feature interview, Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski talks about how the storytelling has evolved through the Gears of War act
Sept. 19, 2011
GDC Vault Adds Free Jon Blow, Douglas Wilson, Zombie Lane Talks
GDC Vault Adds Free Jon Blow, Douglas Wilson, Zombie Lane Talks
The GDC Vault service has debuted new free lectures from GDC Europe, featuring Douglas Wilson on intentionally broken games, Digital Chocolate on Zombie Lane, and more.
Sept. 19, 2011
38 Studios, Nival Join U.S. Trade Body ESA
38 Studios, Nival Join U.S. Trade Body ESA
Curt Schilling-founded Kingdoms of Amalur house 38 Studios and King's Bounty: Legions publisher Nival have joined U.S. game industry trade body the Entertainment Software Association, the organization said Monday.
Sept. 19, 2011