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Madden Release Pushed To Late August To Align With Planned NFL Start
Madden Release Pushed To Late August To Align With Planned NFL Start
The release of this year's Madden NFL title will come on August 30, slightly later than expected, and closer to a planned NFL season start that could be delayed. [UPDATE: Date effective for future years.]
April 13, 2011
Direct Carrier Billing Coming To Sprint's Android Marketplace
Direct Carrier Billing Coming To Sprint's Android Marketplace
Android users on Sprint's U.S. network will soon be able to bill Android Marketplace purchases directly to their Sprint accounts, simplifying the process for buying apps including games for millions of U.S. Android users.
April 13, 2011
Microsoft, Namco Bandai Release HTML5 Pac-Man With User-Created Levels
Microsoft, Namco Bandai Release HTML5 Pac-Man With User-Created Levels
Arcade classic Pac-Man received a decidedly modern update today with a new, free-to-play version that incorporates HTML5-based web play, Facebook account linking and user-created levels.
April 13, 2011
Garry's Mod Developer Enables Error Message To Catch Pirates
Garry's Mod Developer Enables Error Message To Catch Pirates
An error message has been added to Source sandbox game Garry's Mod, allowing the developers to catch pirates and use their Steam IDs to lock them out of the pirated version.
April 13, 2011
Digital Development Management Hires Ex-EA Exec Elizabeth Ross
Digital Development Management Hires Ex-EA Exec Elizabeth Ross
Games business and talent agency Digital Development Management announced its appointment of Elizabeth Ross, formerly a sales director at Ask Jeeves and Electronic Arts, as its new business development director.
April 13, 2011
Razer Bringing Tencent Online Titles To Switchblade
Razer Bringing Tencent Online Titles To Switchblade
Computer gaming peripherals maker Razer announced a partnership with Intel and Chinese online game developer/operator Tencent to bring the latter's titles to its Razer Switchblade concept device.
April 13, 2011
Rockstar Veterans Start NFinite Games Consultancy
Rockstar Veterans Start NFinite Games Consultancy
Martyn Bramall and Andrew Greensmith, both previously senior developers at Rockstar Games, have created their own consultancy firm in the UK offering "dynamic outsourced development services".
April 13, 2011
Valve Specifies Steam Features For Portal 2 On PS3
Valve Specifies Steam Features For Portal 2 On PS3
As it prepares for Portal 2's multiplatform release next week, Valve has shared what cross-platform and communication Steam features will be included in the game's enhanced console version for PlayStation 3.
April 13, 2011
Opinion: Growing Game Animation - Transitions & Player Input
Opinion: Growing Game Animation - Transitions & Player Input
Animator Mike Jungbluth discusses how to express a character's personality through animation and input commands, in this #altdevblogaday-reprinted opinion piece.
April 13, 2011
Crysis 2 Uses Autodesk's Scaleform For 3D Menus, UI
Crysis 2 Uses Autodesk's Scaleform For 3D Menus, UI
Development tools company Autodesk announced that German developer Crytek used its Scaleform user interface and multimedia software for recently shipped first-person shooter Crysis 2.
April 13, 2011
Feature: The Blitz Online's Persistent WWII Bombing Raid Proposal
Feature: The Blitz Online's Persistent WWII Bombing Raid Proposal
In a new Gamasutra feature, author and game design consultant Ernest Adams proposes a new take on the WWII genre -- an online game that puts players in the midst of German
April 13, 2011
DARPA working on full disk encryption for iPhone and Android
DARPA working on full disk encryption for iPhone and Android
The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it is researching into the area of full disk encryption (FDE) on Google Android and Apple iPhone handsets.
April 13, 2011