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Star Trek Online To Offer Player-Created Missions
Star Trek Online To Offer Player-Created Missions
Atari and Cryptic Studios will allow Star Trek Online subscribers to play and create their own custom missions, planets, and even star systems in the MMORPG with a new toolset called The Foundry.
Oct. 29, 2010
Top iPad Game Apps: Plants vs. Zombies Climbs Charts After Price Drop
Top iPad Game Apps: Plants vs. Zombies Climbs Charts After Price Drop
Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular games on the App Store, with Angry Birds Halloween, Plants vs. Zombies and We Rule Quests currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.
Oct. 29, 2010
Best Of Indie Games: The Game Development Shuffle
Best Of Indie Games: The Game Development Shuffle
IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. rounds up the week's top indie games, this time including a Prince of Persia-style puzzle platformer, a collection of reflex-testing minigames, and more.
Oct. 29, 2010
Interview: Red Redemption Divines The Fate Of The World
Interview: Red Redemption Divines The Fate Of The World
Gamasutra speaks with indie developer Red Redemption to discuss Fate of the World, a strategy game that tasks players with saving or destroying the world using systems based on real world scientific data.
Oct. 29, 2010
Nintendo DS Tops Japanese Charts Despite Sales Decline
Nintendo DS Tops Japanese Charts Despite Sales Decline
The Nintendo DS topped the Japanese hardware sales charts this week despite a notable sales decline, narrowing the gap between the Nintendo handheld and the Sony PSP.
Oct. 29, 2010
Analysis: Consoles And Kids - The Generation Gap
Analysis: Consoles And Kids - The Generation Gap
Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris discusses the potential resurgence of 'edutainment' games, talking to Southpeak and examining Warner Bros' moves into the relatively neglected category.
Oct. 29, 2010
Reminder: Student IGF Submissions End November 1st
Reminder: Student IGF Submissions End November 1st
In a brief reminder, IGF Chairman Brandon Boyer notes to all prospective entrants that 2011 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase entries have a final deadline of Monday, November 1st.
Oct. 29, 2010
Nintendo: 46 Percent Of U.S. Population Using Nintendo Systems
Nintendo: 46 Percent Of U.S. Population Using Nintendo Systems
Internal survey data from Nintendo shows 46 percent of Americans aged 6 to 74 using the Wii or Nintendo DS at least once in the past year, with 62 percent of Americans in general using video game consoles.
Oct. 29, 2010
Nintendo Bringing Wii Shopping Service, 3DS Demo Event To Japan
Nintendo Bringing Wii Shopping Service, 3DS Demo Event To Japan
Nintendo today announced a new online shopping service for its Wii console in Japan, as well as a three-day event showcasing the Nintendo 3DS to potential Japanese customers.
Oct. 29, 2010
Saling The World: Fable III Heads Domestic Multiplatform Charts
Saling The World: Fable III Heads Domestic Multiplatform Charts
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled Amazon.com charts find Fable III outselling recent hits like Fallout: New Vegas and Halo: Reach stateside, while Just Dance 2 heads weekly sales in the UK.
Oct. 29, 2010
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of October 29
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of October 29
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 Raven Software, Relic, Rockstar, and more.
Oct. 29, 2010
LinkedIn September attack one of largest targetted spamfests ever
LinkedIn September attack one of largest targetted spamfests ever
Last month's spam attack on the LinkedIn business social networking site's members was one of the largest attacks of its type in history, according to the latest monthly spam report from Kaspersky Lab.
Oct. 29, 2010