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Feature: The Death Of Linearity?
Feature: The Death Of Linearity?
Tale of Tales' Michael Samyn (The Path) describes how narrative linearity got tangled up in the game medium, and suggests how leaving it behind will allow a
Oct. 7, 2010
Game Developer October Issue Showcases Final Fantasy XIII, Companies To Watch
Game Developer October Issue Showcases Final Fantasy XIII, Companies To Watch
The October 2010 issue of Game Developer magazine is now available, featuring a postmortem of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII, companies to watch in 2011, Volition’s glass shattering techniques, and more.
Oct. 7, 2010
GameCareerGuide: Heavy Rain-Inspired Challenge Ends, Retro-Themed One Begins
GameCareerGuide: Heavy Rain-Inspired Challenge Ends, Retro-Themed One Begins
Gamasutra here recaps the winners of the "Heavier Rain" challenge, which tasked readers with imagining a new game in the style of Quantic Dream's hit, and introduces "15 Disks", asking for 15 retro game concepts.
Oct. 7, 2010
GDC Online: Playfish's De Halleux On Why The Next Blockbuster Will Be Online
GDC Online: Playfish's De Halleux On Why The Next Blockbuster Will Be Online
Playfish's Sebastien de Halleux discusses the ongoing evolution in the way games are monetized, the "massive" opportunity for developers -- and his view that the next billion-dollar game will be microtransactions-driven.
Oct. 7, 2010
GDC Online: Brian Reynolds' Wild West In Social Design
GDC Online: Brian Reynolds' Wild West In Social Design
Zynga's Brian Reynolds talks his FrontierVille, ways he's discovered to make social gaming more fun and more truly social, and key lessons from AAA design for successful innovation in the space.
Oct. 7, 2010
Shenmue Title In Development For Yahoo! Mobage Service
Shenmue Title In Development For Yahoo! Mobage Service
Sega revealed today that it is developing the first new entry to its divisive Shenmue series in eight years, with plans to release on the new PC-based Yahoo! Mobage social games service in Japan.
Oct. 7, 2010
Ubisoft Partners With PlaySpan For Microtransactions
Ubisoft Partners With PlaySpan For Microtransactions
Microtransactions firm PlaySpan signed an agreement with Ubisoft that will see its virtual goods monetization platform integrated into a number of the publisher's online games across multiple platforms worldwide.
Oct. 6, 2010
GDC Online: UE3 Adds TriOviz To Integrated Partners Program
GDC Online: UE3 Adds TriOviz To Integrated Partners Program
Darkworks announced that its TriOviz for Games SDK, which is used for implementing stereoscopic 3D in games, has been accepted into Epic's Unreal Engine 3 Integrated Partners Program.
Oct. 6, 2010
Rock Band Catalog Hits 75 Million Downloads, 2,000 Songs
Rock Band Catalog Hits 75 Million Downloads, 2,000 Songs
Harmonix and MTV Games announced that next week's batch of downloadable Rock Band tracks will push its selection of songs over the 2,000 mark, and that fans have downloaded over 75 million songs.
Oct. 6, 2010
Firaxis Using Fork Particle Toolset For Civ V's Visual Effects
Firaxis Using Fork Particle Toolset For Civ V's Visual Effects
Middleware developer Fork Particle announced that its toolset was used by Firaxis to power the particle visual effects in recently released PC strategy game Sid Meier’s Civilization V.
Oct. 6, 2010
Feature: Thinking About Tutorials
Feature: Thinking About Tutorials
In Gamasutra's latest feature, developer and author Sheri Graner Ray (of Schell Games) writes that tutorials are players' "first impression of our work", and "...we on
Oct. 6, 2010
Rein: 3DS Seemingly Not Powerful Enough For Unreal Engine 3
Rein: 3DS Seemingly Not Powerful Enough For Unreal Engine 3
In a new interview, Epic Games VP Mark Rein said that the company currently has no plans to develop games or a version of its Unreal Engine 3 for Nintendo's upcoming 3DS portable.
Oct. 6, 2010