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NPD Results, September 2010: Industry Down 8 Percent As Halo: Reach Dominates
NPD Results, September 2010: Industry Down 8 Percent As Halo: Reach Dominates
The NPD Group revealed U.S. retail video game-related sales down 8% to $1.22 billion, as Bungie's Halo: Reach sold 3.3 million copies on Xbox 360, and accessories got a boost from PlayStation Move.
Oct. 14, 2010
Analysis: The Only Way to Win - How Games Change The Rules
Analysis: The Only Way to Win - How Games Change The Rules
In this analysis, interactive fiction author Emily Short examines the rhetorical power of games and looks as the ways in which a game's narrative can sometimes run contrary to its rules to make a particular point.
Oct. 14, 2010
Demiurge Goes Digital With Shoot Many Robots
Demiurge Goes Digital With Shoot Many Robots
Demiurge Studios, known for its work on Borderlands, Rock Band, and more, has announced its first fully owned console title, Shoot Many Robots, a downloadable game to be released in 2011.
Oct. 14, 2010
Pokemon Continues To Lead Japanese Sales, Red Dead Redemption Debuts In Top 10
Pokemon Continues To Lead Japanese Sales, Red Dead Redemption Debuts In Top 10
Nintendo's Pokemon Black/White continues to top the Japanese sales charts, with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption both debuting in the region's top 10 this week.
Oct. 14, 2010
Gamasutra Expert Blogs: From Player Choice To The Importance Of 'Fun' In Social Games
Gamasutra Expert Blogs: From Player Choice To The Importance Of 'Fun' In Social Games
In highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs, industry notables write about diverse topics, including player choice, Minecraft's addictive appeal, and why social games need to more earnestly focus
Oct. 14, 2010
GCAP: EEDAR's Short Gives Games a Silver Lining
GCAP: EEDAR's Short Gives Games a Silver Lining
Speaking at Game Connect Asia Pacific, EEDAR president and CEO Greg Short says that the cloud overhanging the game biz in 2009 has a silver lining in new, self-publishing studios that emerged.
Oct. 14, 2010
Facebook, PlaySpan Partner To Expand Credits' Global Reach
Facebook, PlaySpan Partner To Expand Credits' Global Reach
Facebook has partnered with PlaySpan to use the microtransaction firm's UltimatePay service with its Credits virtual currency, reaching more users around the world with new regional payment options.
Oct. 14, 2010
SouthPeak Sees $5.8 Million Loss, My Baby Dispute Ongoing While CDV Suit Resolved
SouthPeak Sees $5.8 Million Loss, My Baby Dispute Ongoing While CDV Suit Resolved
SouthPeak closes a "challenging" fiscal 2010 with a $5.8 million loss and sales down, but focuses on progress it's made in reducing costs and resolving numerous legal disputes around its products and business practices.
Oct. 14, 2010
Moore: Lack Of UFC License 'Shouldn't Be A Barrier' To EA Sports MMA
Moore: Lack Of UFC License 'Shouldn't Be A Barrier' To EA Sports MMA
EA Sports boss Peter Moore admits that breaking into the mixed martial arts space with EA Sports MMA will be harder at first without the UFC license, but that the title represents a "long-term play' for EA.
Oct. 14, 2010
Interview: LucasArts Vet Blackman Unveils Fearless Studios
Interview: LucasArts Vet Blackman Unveils Fearless Studios
Former LucasArts creative talent Haden Blackman talks to Gamasutra about Fearless Studios, his new studio co-founded with Cedrick Collomb -- and his aims to try big creative risks in worlds all their own.
Oct. 14, 2010
Grasshopper Manufacture Hires Harvest Moon And Little King's Story Creators
Grasshopper Manufacture Hires Harvest Moon And Little King's Story Creators
Yasuhiro Wada and Yoshiro Kimura, formerly of Marvelous Entertainment and responsible for Harvest Moon and Little King's Story respectively, have joined Japanese superdev Grasshopper Manufacture.
Oct. 14, 2010
RSA Europe: Larry Ponemon talks about the state of EMEA security
RSA Europe: Larry Ponemon talks about the state of EMEA security
At the RSA Security conference, 13th October 2010, attendees at the London security conference were treated to a detailed presentation on the subject of the current state of cybersecurity in the EMEA region from Dr Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute.
Oct. 14, 2010