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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Becomes Console's First 4M-Unit Game In Japan
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Becomes Console's First 4M-Unit Game In Japan
New Super Mario Bros. Wii has become the first quadruple-selling game for Nintendo's Wii console in Japan, breaking the four million mark over the weekend according to new sales figures released by Enterbrain.
Nov. 30, 2010
Feature: Marrying Narrative & Play Through Technique
Feature: Marrying Narrative & Play Through Technique
In Gamasutra's latest feature, writer and game designer Chuck Jordan addresses the debate over whether gameplay and storytelling are truly compatible.
Nov. 30, 2010
GDC 2011 Announces Art, Audio Talks From Final Fantasy, Pixar, Gears Of War 3
GDC 2011 Announces Art, Audio Talks From Final Fantasy, Pixar, Gears Of War 3
Organizers of the 2011 Game Developers Conference have debuted initial lectures from the Art and Audio Tracks for the Main Conference, spanning Gears Of War 3, Pixar, Limbo, Final Fantasy and beyond
Nov. 30, 2010
Sony Reveals 4.1 Million PlayStation Move Devices Shipped Worldwide
Sony Reveals 4.1 Million PlayStation Move Devices Shipped Worldwide
Sony Computer Entertainment says it's sold in 4.1 million PlayStation Move units since the device's launch two months ago [UPDATE: SCEA tells Gamasutra retailers are "taking every unit we can supply."]
Nov. 30, 2010
Blitz Games Studios Announces 'One-Stop Shop' Indie Portal
Blitz Games Studios Announces 'One-Stop Shop' Indie Portal
Aiming to create an online portal for independent games, Blitz Games Studios has launched IndieCity, an effort it says hopes will offer gamers and developers a "one-stop shop" for indie titles.
Nov. 30, 2010
Middle East's Game Industry Creates Islam-Centric Game Ratings
Middle East's Game Industry Creates Islam-Centric Game Ratings
The Iran National Foundation of Computer Games used the Dubai World Game Expo to stage the unveiling of a new ratings body for the Middle East, which evaluates game content against the values of Islam.
Nov. 30, 2010
Gartner predicts cyber attack will seriously damage G20 economy by 2015
Gartner predicts cyber attack will seriously damage G20 economy by 2015
A G20 country will be hit by major cyber attack by 2015, Garter predicts.
Nov. 30, 2010
IBM launches apprenticeship scheme for school leavers
IBM launches apprenticeship scheme for school leavers
IBM has launched an apprenticeship scheme for 15 school leavers in a bid to develop its current and future workforce.
Nov. 30, 2010
Iran confirms Stuxnet hit uranium enrichment centrifuges
Iran confirms Stuxnet hit uranium enrichment centrifuges
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has confirmed that the Stuxnet computer worm affected centrifuges in the country's uranium enrichment program.
Nov. 30, 2010
Small-scale DDoS hack takes down WikiLeaks site
Small-scale DDoS hack takes down WikiLeaks site
The hacker who took down the WikiLeaks site just hours before it was set to publish leaked US documents used a relatively small-scale, application-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor Networks.
Nov. 30, 2010
This Week in Video Game Criticism: The Fable Of New Experiences
This Week in Video Game Criticism: The Fable Of New Experiences
Ben Abraham brings us a fresh new roundup of links to game criticism on the web, including discourse on moral decisions in Fable 3, the need for new experiences in the "AAA" space, and much more.
Nov. 29, 2010
Top iPhone Game Apps: EA Wins Big On Black Friday
Top iPhone Game Apps: EA Wins Big On Black Friday
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, with reduced-price EA games making a strong showing.
Nov. 29, 2010