Gambitious launches crowdfunding platform for video games

Gambitious launches crowdfunding platform for video games only
VentureBeat
“Unlike other crowdfunding platforms, Gambitious is designed specifically for the video game industry and ups the ante of developer credibility, investor engagement, anddevelopment cycle understanding.” Gambitious offers the opportunity to invest and ...

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The Amazing Spider-Man Video Game Released Today
Brevard Times
Get ready to brush up your web-shooting skills as The Amazing Spider-Man™ video game from Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), and Marvel Entertainment, is available digitally today in ...

How to Keep Track of Fall Video Game Releases
Forbes
Game.minder is available for iOS and Android, and it will organize upcoming games by date, platform, developer, price, or whatever else you feel your heart desires. You can also use it to remind you when you need to get down to your local Gamestop or ...

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Virus game has Kiwi connection
Stuff.co.nz
A Christchurch man who once said online that he would eat his hat if a video game developer made a new game based on the principles of 6 degrees of freedom has invested "many thousands of dollars" into a new game, Retrovirus, that harks back to the ...

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GameCity Prize 2012 longlist announced
Telegraph.co.uk
Envisioned as video games answer to the Bookers, the prize was introduced last year with considerable success, featuring games from Valve's megahit Portal 2 to indiedeveloper Capybara Games niche iOS favourite Superbrothers. The prize focusses ...

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Google Attempts To Understand The Modern Gamer
WebProNews
The company has been pushing to get full games on Chrome, and creating HTML5 tools for game developers. The search giant has proven that it's not all about Web gaming as they also talk about the traditional games industry in a roundtable video series, ...

Wii U Will Be Region-Locked…Nooooooooooo
Technabob (blog)
A bit of bad news has turned up concerning the new Nintendo Wii U game console set to launch later this year. Nintendo recently disclosed that the new game console will be region-locked. This means that the console will not support video games ...

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Volition to hire for next installment of 'Saints Row' game series [The News ...
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24--CHAMPAIGN _ Dan Cermak said he's confident Volition Inc. has enough time to make the fourth installment of the "Saints Row" video game franchise a worthy successor to "Saints Row: The Third." Volition's parent company ... Those include artists ...

Memorial: Composer Ryu Umemoto
Gamasutra
To the video game industry and its many fans in the West, the name Ryu Umemoto will only echo faintly in the distance, a handful of followers responding in joy over the music in Cave's recent titles, such as Akai Katana. In Japan, the name Ryu Umemoto ...

WoW Developers Not Too Worried About Windows 8
GamerFront
Despite the fact that Windows 8 won't be out for another month it's already getting a bad rap from video game developers. Gabe Newell of Valve himself even stated that Windows 8 will be “a catastrophe” for developers, due to concerns that the OS could ...

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Android iMpulse game controller gets kickstarted
TG Daily
The device is a multi-functional Bluetooth accessory designed to clip onto your keychain. Of course, the little gadget does more than simply control your video games. For example, if you lose your smartphone, the game controller can activate an alarm ...

Borderlands 2 Shoots Irony in the Face
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Part of Borderlands 2's charm comes from the obvious homage it pays to an old tradition (fans can argue about how closely or distantly it is related to this video gameheritage, more on this later). First-person shooters have been ... In a famous ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Yes. XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Really Good.
Kotaku
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Really Good. I've lost video game troops before. I've sent virtual men bravely to their digital deaths. In StarCraft, in Company of Heroes; in Warcraft and Civilization, I've sent heroic men and women to the front lines, never to ...

A closer look at Rocksmith
TG Daily
I remember very fondly when Guitar Hero became the hottest video game. It was a great idea, and for a moment it actually helped keep the music business alive. Not to mention, it inspired a lot of kids to want to pick up the guitar and try to become ...

Firefall's Developers Accused (OK Not Really) of Giving New Recruits ...
Kotaku
Firefall's Developers Accused (OK Not Really) of Giving New Recruits Something Very Nasty There is nothing more mundane in the world of video game marketing than the bullet-point announcement. Unless the game's developers go to the trouble of kinda ...

'Planetside 2' developers reveal engineer class
The Verge
PlanetSide 2's senior art director, Tramell Isaac, and creative director, Matt Higby, revealed the game's engineer class in episode five of their PlanetSide 2 Command Center series this weekend. ..."Engineers are key," Higby says in the video. "We're ...

Perfect World Entertainment Inc. Names Jefferey A. Wooten General Counsel
DailyFinance
... commercial transactions and creating alliances for partnership programs for the leading publisher of online video games. Mr. Wooten will also serve as the principal legal advisor to Perfect World Entertainment's wholly-owned game development ...

Dungeons and Dragons Slot Games?
Gamersyndrome
While many online casino developers are basing titles on video game and comic book characters, IGT has chosen the Dungeons and Dragons theme as its muse. Dungeons and Dragons: Crystal Caverns is the first game in the slots series, providing online ...

Games12 wraps up another successful year in Dubai
The Verge
Now in its fifth year, Games12 is an annual consumer video game convention that gives players the chance to check out games before they're released and play against each other in multiplayer battles. For three days publishers from around the world ...

'Adventure Time' for 3DS is a modern adventure in a classic skin
The Verge
Tiny sentient video game console BMO serves as a hub for the game's maps, inventory, and Finn and Jake's stats, taking up the handheld's bottom touch-screen. "We had a lot of involvement from Pen on this game," Ramage said. "If you're a fan of the show ...

Octodad: Dadliest Catch Shows Off Its Gameplay
Gameranx
Ah, 100% no frills video game trailers: I love you! No misleading CGI that makes us forget that agame doesn't look very good, or that we don't know how a game actually plays. This trailer, on the other hand, is gameplay-only. The footage is exactly ...

Various Worms Revolution game modes detailed
In Entertainment
A new developer diary video on Worms Revolution explains the new features and modes that will be involved in the upcoming game and this insightful explanation can be seen on CVG, which shows senior designer Mark Dimond answer various questions...

In Entertainment

A Virus You Want to Catch: Infectonator Game Brings Zombies to Android and iOS
Tech in Asia
Indonesian startup developer Toge Production launched the smartphone versions on September 24th, 2012 with a price tag of $0.99 on both Google Play and the iTunes App Store. Infectonator still brings the same recipe to the ... deal to open a whole ...

Tech in Asia

Behind the scenes on 'War of the Roses' (Pt. 4)
News10.net
pubId=35121343001 Behind the scenes on 'War of the Roses' (Pt. 4) 'War of the Roses' developersGordon Van Dyke and MÃ¥rten Stormdal undertake "rigorous" research in this behind-the-scenesvideo for the game. Paradox Interactive war of the roses ...

Games: The Monsters and Villains of LEGO The Lord of the Rings
Superherohype.com
Yesterday we hit you with a behind-the-scenes video of the upcoming LEGO The Lord of the Ringsvideo game and today we've got some artwork for the game for the game showcasing all the bad guys from the series. The game is set to be released on October ...

Valve announces Portal 2 Songs to Test By Collector's Edition
Gaming Examiner
The 4-CD collection includes a fourth CD (13 tracks) featuring music from the original Portal video game which has been previously unavailable. Portal 2: Songs To Test By (Collector's Edition) also comes with an exclusive mini-comic titled “Turret Lullaby.

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Nintendo's former 'Fun Club President' wants you to Know-It-All
Gamasutra
At least one game developer thinks so, and he's even developed a methodology: a simple but unique puzzle game that is kind of like a combination of Tetris and flash cards. He wants to turn this into a .... This left Phillips, someone who was never ...

Gamasutra

NASDAQ lists first Chinese firm this year
Global Times
China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group Limited (CMGE), China's largest mobile game company by market share and a subsidiary of the Chinese video and telemedia company VODone, was listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange Tuesday, according to a ... The ...

Revisiting Resident Evil 5
IGN
... opinions on the issue. It was a difficult topic to discuss, and perhaps even one that still has the power to cause an aftershock of uproar today as the franchise nears the release of its next gameand those same fans, journalists and developers ...

Cable Companies To Stream Games As Early As This Year
Side Mission
But it seems likely that sooner, rather than later, you'll be able to buy a game from your cable company. Our Take: It's always great for publishers and developers to have a new way to distribute their games, but we're not sure the market is there ...

Dead Or Alive 5 review: Style over substance
Digital Trends
Instantly turning an incoming punch into a broken elbow for your foe is one of those things that the vast, vast majority of us will only ever experience inside a video game, and it definitely offers ample reason to practice your defensive skills as ...

Digital Trends

Darksiders II - compilation of my first hour of play
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Not So Massively: Torchlight II free demo, Diablo III's Ubers revealed
Joystiq
Diablo III fansite Diablofans has been digging around in the test realm patch files to find out how thegame's new Uber bosses works and what awesome rewards can be found by fighting them. Path of Exile celebrates its fourth successful public stress ...

FIFA 13 Gets North American Release
Bleacher Report
Unprecedented achievements are not rare in the history of the FIFA series, a fact made even more apparent after FIFA 12 humbled all its competitors by becoming the all-time best-selling sports video game. The subject now is FIFA 13, and this new title ...

Bleacher Report

New record opens window on world of games creators
Worcester News
Neil Gorman, of Elmdale Road, Northwick, took part in the Microsoft and Train2Game Gameathon 2012 at the University of Bedfordshire, where the art and animation student created video games for Windows 8 in just 48 hours. Participants created a total of ...

UBM Studios Honored with an Internet Marketing Association Impact Award for ...
Sacramento Bee
HDI 2012 also offered keynote speaker video presentations by Steve Rizzo, Dr. Michio Kaku, and Joe Calloway as well as video vignettes featuring HDI 2012 keynote speaker Connie Podesta. Attendees were able ... More than 14.5 million business and ...

Gambitious Brings Hybrid Crowdfunding To Video Games: Now ...
By Natasha Lomas
“Unlike other crowdfunding platforms, Gambitious is designed specifically for the video game industry and ups the ante of developer credibility, investor engagement and development cycle understanding.” “It is time to move from the wild, wild, ...
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Video game developer discusses industry | Yale Daily News
Casey Kuczik '03 spoke to students Monday about his experiences in the video game industry and discussed how modern video games are rapidly shifting to ...
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Video 29 - Gamer To Game Developer
Multiplayer FPS game development video tutorials, spanning a complete project, using the standard (free) version of the Unity game development engine.
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Video game developer discusses industry. Yale Daily News - 25 sep 12 - 12:27. Contributing Reporter Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Share Tweet Discuss (0) ...
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