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Interview: Japanese Indie Dev Himo Crafts A Second Person Shooter
Interview: Japanese Indie Dev Himo Crafts A Second Person Shooter
Himo -- one of Kyoto, Japan's rare indie developers -- discusses the inspiration behind the unique Second Person Shooter Zato, its low budget art direction, and the ease of Unity development.
May 24, 2011
Best of iOS News: From Ticket to Ride to Chaos Rings Omega
Best of iOS News: From Ticket to Ride to Chaos Rings Omega
Gamasutra rounds up the latest news in the world of App Store gaming, featuring standout releases like Ticket to Ride, Casey's Contraptions and Chaos Rings Omega.
May 24, 2011
Interview: The Death Of Try-Then-Buy PC Gaming
Interview: The Death Of Try-Then-Buy PC Gaming
Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris talks to Exent Technologies' Kobi Edelstein about the need to move away from the try-then-buy PC gaming model, and instead focus on the more stable ad-supported angle.
May 24, 2011
CGC 2011: Game Developers Discuss Creating Game Diversity
CGC 2011: Game Developers Discuss Creating Game Diversity
Speaking at the recent Canadian Games Conference, Women in Games Vancouver’s Bryna Dabby and Relic Entertainment’s Mitchell Lagran shared their ideas for creating and catering to a more diverse audience.
May 24, 2011
THQ Partners To Distribute Codemasters Titles In North America
THQ Partners To Distribute Codemasters Titles In North America
The year-old Partners branch of THQ will handle American distribution for games by British developer Codemasters, best known here for racing franchises including DiRT 3 and F1 2011, the company has announced.
May 24, 2011
Microsoft Announces New Features For Coming Windows Phone 7 Update
Microsoft Announces New Features For Coming Windows Phone 7 Update
Microsoft today announced hundreds of new features that will be integrated into the code-named "Mango" update coming to the Windows Phone 7 platform this fall, including many of use to game developers.
May 24, 2011
Activision Confirms Modern Warfare 3 For November 8
Activision Confirms Modern Warfare 3 For November 8
Activision announced today that the next title in its hit Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare 3, will be available worldwide on November 8, confirming earlier leaked reports.
May 24, 2011
Perfect World Shows Improved Financials After Recent Game Launches
Perfect World Shows Improved Financials After Recent Game Launches
Major Chinese MMO maker Perfect World announced that some recent releases helped increase revenues for the first quarter of 2011 and drove profits higher than the the same period in 2010.
May 24, 2011
Ghost Recon Online To Take Series Free-To-Play
Ghost Recon Online To Take Series Free-To-Play
Ubisoft today announced Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online, a new free-to-play entry in the popular military action series being developed at the company's Singapore studio.
May 24, 2011
Android Minecraft Coming To Xperia Play First
Android Minecraft Coming To Xperia Play First
Minecraft developer Mojang has confirmed to Gamasutra that the previously revealed Android version of its PC indie hit will be arriving on Sony Ericsson's PlayStation-certified Xperia Play before other phones.
May 24, 2011
Feature: Unsocial Games
Feature: Unsocial Games
In Gamasutra's latest feature, veteran developer Greg Costikyan dissects social games and examines how developers give "no thought whatsoever" to using their social nature to
May 24, 2011
Epic, Insomniac, And More Talk Growth In Roundtable In North Carolina's Triangle
Epic, Insomniac, And More Talk Growth In Roundtable In North Carolina's Triangle
Today at a Gamasutra-attended roundtable discussion, leading lights of the game industry discussed how being based in the Raleigh-Durham area helps them overcome global challenges.
May 24, 2011