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PS3 Leads Japanese Charts As Sales Decline For Multiple Platforms
PS3 Leads Japanese Charts As Sales Decline For Multiple Platforms
In a week of declining sales across multiple platforms, Sony's PlayStation 3 led the Japanese hardware charts, while Nintendo platforms experiences the largest overall sales drop.
Jan. 21, 2011
Paradox Announces Salem, Free-To-Play MMORPG With Permadeath
Paradox Announces Salem, Free-To-Play MMORPG With Permadeath
Publisher Paradox Interactive announced Salem (tentative title), an upcoming free-to-play MMORPG that will feature Minecraft-like sandbox elements and permanent death for characters, releasing this year.
Jan. 21, 2011
Best Of Indie Games: Dreaming of Mystical Ninjas
Best Of Indie Games: Dreaming of Mystical Ninjas
IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. sums up some of the top indie games for the week, this time highlighting Mega Man-styled Ninja Senki, adventure game The Dream Machine and more.
Jan. 21, 2011
Bogost Aggressively Expands Cowclickification Platform
Bogost Aggressively Expands Cowclickification Platform
Building upon his popular social game satire Cow Clicker, Ian Bogost has launched a Cow Clicker platform offering a programmable API, a new Facebook game, an iPhone app, a Moogle search engine, and more.
Jan. 21, 2011
ThinkFun: Beat App Store Clones With Quality
ThinkFun: Beat App Store Clones With Quality
ThinkFun has had its games cloned on the iOS App Store, but has had little success getting the cloners to stop -- and instead aims to beat them with quality, company founder Bill Ritchie
Jan. 21, 2011
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of January 21
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of January 21
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Activision, Arkane Studios, Turbine, Inc.,
Jan. 21, 2011
Nintendo Confirms 3DS Store, Browser To Be Ready At Launch
Nintendo Confirms 3DS Store, Browser To Be Ready At Launch
Nintendo has confirmed that 3DS' digital download market, as well as its internet browser, will be available as a firmware update "on day one", contrary to earlier media reports.
Jan. 21, 2011
Zynga Acquires New York's Area/Code
Zynga Acquires New York's Area/Code
New York-based social game pioneer Area/Code (Parking Wars, CSI: Crime City) has been acquired by Zynga, becoming Zynga New York as it aims to grow its development efforts by aligning with the market giant.
Jan. 21, 2011
Crysis 2 To Get Xbox 360-Exclusive Multiplayer Demo
Crysis 2 To Get Xbox 360-Exclusive Multiplayer Demo
Upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 2 will get an Xbox 360-exclusive multiplayer demo beginning January 25, publisher Electronic Arts and developer Crytek announced today.
Jan. 21, 2011
EC carbon credits scheme halted after hackers burn through 28 million euro worth of credits
EC carbon credits scheme halted after hackers burn through 28 million euro worth of credits
The European Commission (EC) has suspended trading in carbon credits after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and reportedly siphoned off around 28 million euro worth of carbon credit certificates.
Jan. 21, 2011
Larry Page reclaims Google chief executive post from Eric Schmidt
Larry Page reclaims Google chief executive post from Eric Schmidt
Google co-founder Larry Page is to take over as chief executive in April from Eric Schmidt, who will then become executive chairman.
Jan. 21, 2011
Digital forensics arrives on the Apple iPad and iPhone 4
Digital forensics arrives on the Apple iPad and iPhone 4
Guidance Software, the company behind the popular range of EnCase digital forensics software, has extended/ported the forensics application to support the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch.
Jan. 21, 2011