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Riccitiello: Battlefield 3, Call of Duty To Spend Hundreds Of Millions On Ad Battle
Riccitiello: Battlefield 3, Call of Duty To Spend Hundreds Of Millions On Ad Battle
EA CEO John Riccitiello says the marketing spends for both EA's Battlefield 3 and Activision's next Call of Duty release could easily surpass $100 million each when the games launch later this year.
April 6, 2011
Team Meat: Roughly 600,000 Sales For Super Meat Boy
Team Meat: Roughly 600,000 Sales For Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy creators Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen -- the self-styled Team Meat -- said the title has sold roughly 600,000 copies across Xbox Live Arcade and Steam.
April 6, 2011
Minecraft Draws Over $33 Million In Revenue From 1.8M Paying Customers
Minecraft Draws Over $33 Million In Revenue From 1.8M Paying Customers
Indie mega-hit Minecraft continues to grow in popularity, with new sales breakdown data from creator Markus "Notch" Persson suggesting the game has made over $33 million in revenue.
April 6, 2011
Factor 5 Vets Open Social Game Studio
Factor 5 Vets Open Social Game Studio
Several former employees from Factor 5 (Lair, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series) have formed TouchFactor, a new studio dedicated to building social games and located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
April 6, 2011
Interview: Paradox Talks Growth Strategy And Keeping Close To Players
Interview: Paradox Talks Growth Strategy And Keeping Close To Players
PC publisher Paradox is on track to grow its revenues 65-70% this year as it increasingly diversifies -- CEO Fredrik Wester talks to Gamasutra about a redoubled quality effort and staying close with the community as it grows.
April 6, 2011
Shanghai: Resilient In Face Of The Global Downturn
Shanghai: Resilient In Face Of The Global Downturn
Writing as part of a larger Gamasutra feature on what it takes to run a studio in Shanghai, Matt Orlich of Ant Hive Games suggests the market is still more stable than other lo
April 6, 2011
39% of financial sector organisations have been hit by data loss/theft
39% of financial sector organisations have been hit by data loss/theft
Research just released by Informatica claims to show that 74% of financial firms have admitted to a lack of confidence or uncertainty in their organisation's capabilities when it comes to protecting customer information in the development stages.
April 6, 2011
Unfashionable network breach at Gucci’s
Unfashionable network breach at Gucci’s
A Gucci network engineer who was fired by the company used his expertise and insider access to wreck havoc on the IT systems of the Italian fashion house, according to an indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
April 6, 2011
The London Clinic peps up its disaster recovery plans
The London Clinic peps up its disaster recovery plans
The London Clinic, the UK's largest independently owned non-profit hospital with 270 beds, has announced it has significantly enhanced its IT disaster recovery systems, as well as improving data access to its clinical staff across the hospital campus.
April 6, 2011
Anonymous group serves up DDoS attacks on Sony websites
Anonymous group serves up DDoS attacks on Sony websites
The Wikileaks-inspired Anonymous hacktivist group has announced plans to stage a series of DDoS attacks against various Sony sites. The attacks are in retaliation, the group says, for the legal action against George Hotz, the famous hardware cracker.
April 6, 2011
Bigfoot Networks, Gaikai Form Cloud Streaming Tech Partnership
Bigfoot Networks, Gaikai Form Cloud Streaming Tech Partnership
Bigfoot Networks, provider of low-latency online game products, and cloud gaming company Gaikai have announced a technology partnership aimed at increasing streaming game performance.
April 5, 2011
Interview: Tony Bartel On GameStop's New Digital Strategy
Interview: Tony Bartel On GameStop's New Digital Strategy
Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris talks with GameStop president Tony Bartel about its recent acquisitions and how tablets are "the next explosion in the gaming space."
April 5, 2011