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Video: Green Throttle wants to turn Android devices into consoles
TG Daily
Video: Green Throttle wants to turn Android devices into consoles. Posted on November 8, 2012 - 08:00 by Shane ... More recently, people have been speculating that the Ouya game console might (once again) mean the demise of the game console. Personally ...


Game Developer magazine's Power 50: Business
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... marketers, and other professionals working in the business end of the gameindustry, helping bring great titles to the market. We are also recognizing talented individuals in the fields of Art, Audio, Programming, Design, and Evangelism in separate ...

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Video-game review: 'Halo 4' diminishes the aura surrounding Master Chief
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In charge is 343 Industries, a first time developer that has been handed the reins of one of the most popular video game franchises. Did 343 ... Her character development is what keeps the story from feeling dull as you're slowing seeing the rails come ...

Once focused on 2D mobile games, Machine Zone hires a 3D graphics expert
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But it pivoted to become one of the first free-to-play mobile game companies and now has rebranded itself as a serious developer. Dietrich has nearly 20 years of experience in software engineering, game design, and 3D graphics technologies at companies ...

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30000 petition EA to make a BMX video game
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30,000 petition EA to make a BMX video game. Facebook group growing daily in support of new freestyle title. A Facebook petition targetted at sports video game developer EA has reached 30,000 signatories, calling for it to develop a new freestyle BMX ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops II features in-game live streaming video via YouTube
Gaming Age
The first of its kind innovation coming from Activision and the game's developer, award-winning studio Treyarch, will allow players to live stream Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer League Playgames, as well as the player's webcam and audio ...

Are video games getting too accessible?
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Video game developers seem intent on making their games easier, simpler and more accessible, all in an effort to try to reach a wider audience and sell more copies of their game. The Dead Space franchise has fallen victim to this, with Dead Space 3 ...

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Peter Molynuex finds monetising disgusting
GamingBolt (blog)
2012 | Posted in News | by Kartik Mudgal. As a developer it's a bit shameful to talk about monetizing, according to Peter Molynuex, who has just released his new gameCuriosity: Behind the Cube. That game contains monetisation and Molynuex explains why ...

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Execution Labs raises $1.4M to incubate indie mobile game studios in Canada
VentureBeat
The mentors include Ed Fries (the cofounder of Xbox), indie developer Phil Fish (of Fez fame), and monetization expert Ben Cousins of Ngmoco. “Canada is a gameindustry ... Execution Labs is a very promising platform for harnessing the creativity of...
 
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This week's video games
Arizona Daily Star
While not video games themselves, these gaming-based building sets are excellent ways to express true geekdom, and work excellently as parent-child building projects. There are three "Gears of War"-based vehicles on the market. I took a look at the ...

New Elder Scrolls Online details unveiled
Examiner.com
According to a report from CVG today, the video has the developers talking about how they are bringing the rich history of the "Elder Scrolls" to the MMO. In addition, they detail exactly how they are creating one of the most socially-connected MMO's ...

Forge Preview
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1.6GB preview of Forge at a friend's house, but it was worth it since after playing thegame has piqued my interest immensely. Dark Vale Games' Forge is something that cannot be termed as a big budget title, however, it puts many such games to shame.

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Activision Blizzard Reports Higher Profits; Raises Outlook (ATVI)
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Video game developer, Activision Blizzard, Inc.(ATVI ) reported increased earnings for the quarter, but missed analysts estimates Thursday. The Santa Monia, CA based company reported third quarter earnings of $226 million, or 20 cents per share, up 34 ...

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Witcher dev wants to take series beyond games
VG247
The RPG series is already based on a 1986 book penned by author Andrzej Sapkowski, but thegame's developer hopes to take the series back to other media in future. ... “We want to develop The Witcher's universe in other media, not only video games.

Kibbles 'n Bits Unveils 8-Bit Facebook Game for Dog Lovers
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"This group is very active on Farmville and on other social games, and they grew up playing with those early video games," she said. Indeed, research by game developer PopCap indicates that the average player of online social games is a 43-year-old ...

80s 8-bit gaming classic Karateka hits Xbox Live Arcade
SlashGear
If you were around in the 80s and liked to play video games, you might remember the eight-bit classic karate fighting game called Karateka. The game was created by Jordan Mechner, the person behind Prince of Persia. The original game was created by ...

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'Texas Poker for Prizes' Is Giving Away $10000 In Prizes Weekly
CardPlayer.com
Gameloft, a giant French video game developer and publisher, is throwing its hat into the online poker ring. It recently released a mobile poker game app for Apple devices: Texas Poker For Prizes. What makes 'Texas Poker For Prizes' so unique? Prizes.

Unity Butterfly Effect Video Shows How Games Can Look Like CGI
Cinema Blend
Unity Technology released a new walkthrough video showcasing some behind-the-scenes footage of how the team and Passion Pictures put together one of the coolest game trailers of 2012 called “The Butterfly Effect”. You can check out the technical ...

Divinity: Original Sin's Level Design Progress
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Larian Studios has unveiled a new video for the upcoming Divinity: Original Sin, a new role playinggame for Mac and Windows set in the world of the Divinity Series. This time the developers chose to showcase the progress the game's level designers ...

New 'Far Cry 3' trailer shows off the story of the game
Examiner.com
They've even been teased with character vignettes which showcased the game's many psychopaths, but this is the first full trailer that the developer has released to show off the narrative of “Far Cry 3”. In “Far Cry 3”, Players will have to navigate ...

The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Beast Boxing Turbo
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Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the ...

Q&A: Criterion Games' Matt Webster talks Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Financial Post
The 18-year-old series has churned out 19 games from more than half a dozendevelopers, each with its own vision for what a Need for Speed game could be. It's rapidly approaching the remarkable milestone of 150 million games sold. Need for Speed: Most ...

Financial Post

Star Wars: The Old Republic update 1.5 dev diary
Computerandvideogames.com
Here's a new Star Wars: The Old Republic video featuring developers discussing Game Update 1.5, titled 'HK-51 Activated'. Star Wars: The Old Republic Screenshot Bruce Maclean, seniordevelopment director, and Matt Pucevich, associate designer, talk ...

First batch of bug fixes revealed for 'Minecraft' 1.4.4
Examiner.com
Mojang is the developer and published behind “Minecraft.” The open-world sandbox video gamecame out for the PC on November 18, 2011. 4J Studios also ported the title to the Xbox 360 under the name of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition on May 9, 2012.

GeekDad Talks Adventure Time with WayForward Technologies
Wired (blog)
It combines my favorite Cartoon Network property with the game design wizardry of acclaimeddeveloper WayForward Technologies (an organization that counts among its ranks Jake “virt” Kaufman, one of the finest game music composers on this side of the ...

These Hedge Fund Managers Still Believe in GameStop, Should You?
Insider Monkey (blog)
(NYSE:GME). On one side of the fence, the bulls have been adamant that the company, which holds close to four-fifths of the used video game market, can make the transition to digital distribution while still holding relevance in the brick and mortar arena.

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Total Recall Online trailer shows off the game for the first time
Joystiq
... act as bodyguards, three main classes that will grow and change according to your faction andgame choices, and much more. Give the entire video interview a look after the cut below and check out some tracks from the game's soundtrack while you're ...

It was the best of times...
Ventura County Reporter
As a young boy, my initial contact with video games came in the form of Nintendo, or as my mother called it, a “Nintendoo.” I played the original Super Mario Bros. until calluses began to ... Countless years passed — at least 20 or so — during which ...

Dogington Post Receives Threats About Controversial New iPhone Game
PR Web (press release)
The popular dog news site launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise attention and funds to develop a new video game. In the early days since the ... I'm disgusted by the growing lack of integrity bygame developers. Children are going to be playing ...

BlackBerry 10 'the easiest platform for developers to port games'
Digital Spy
Two examples were Fishlabs' ability to port "a game as rich as" Galaxy on Fire to Blackberry 10 in a single day, and a development blog by Nlogn Information's Charilaos Kalogirou explaining its ease of development. "We have a whole team dedicated to ...

GDC 2013's debut sessions feature Assassin's Creed III, Magic: The Gathering ...
Gamasutra
The build-up to next March's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco has officially begun. The show's organizers are now working hard to craft the event's robust session lineup, and today they announced the first three talks that have made the cut.

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Industry veteran Robert Unsworth on why publishers need to up their game for ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz
Add to this the fact that a developer needs to integrate a social gaming company's SDK on iOS to leverage any form of social interaction and this then reduces the market reach even further and it becomes an even more limited social experience. Apps and ...

Aussie Developers: How Do You Juggle Passion Projects And Life Balance?
Gizmodo Australia
Gizmodo's Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia's up and coming dev scene. ... My name is Douglas Warouw I'm a broadcast graphic designer by day and an indiegame developer by night. Or should I say after midnight, once ...

Actor Tony Todd Answers Activision's Call of Duty in Black Ops II Game
Hollywood Reporter
... into video games. Todd provided the voice and performance capture for Admiral Tommy Briggs in Los Angeles developer Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops II game.... What were your thoughts on how far video games have come over the years? Since I ...

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Guide Dirk The Daring Through The Dragon's Lair On Mac Tomorrow
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According to Digital Leisure, the developer of this latest port, “This release of Don Bluth's legendary animated arcade game features video transferred directly from the high definition film master, delivering the sharpest images and most vibrant ...

SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR EPIC GAMES' MAKE SOMETHING UNREAL ...
Gamasutra
Over the past decade Epic's Make Something Unreal game development competitions have awarded millions of dollars' worth of cash and prizes, enabled the release of numerous commercially successful computer and video games and jumpstarted many careers ...

Mobile games winning the war for your attention
VentureBeat
Jesse Divnich, the vice president of insights and analysis at video game research and consulting company EEDAR, told us that console game completion rates haven't changed over the years: only 10 percent to 20 percent of consumers complete any onegame ...

VentureBeat

Is The Video Game Industry Trying Too Hard… - subsaint Blog ...
By Saint
Robert Bowling left Infinity Ward to create a small independent video game developer. Both worked for big name and highly successful companies and both left to pursue other interests. We know what Robert Bowling is working on. And the ...
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30,000 petition EA to make a BMX video game. Facebook group growing daily in support of new freestyle title. A Facebook petition targetted at sports video game developer EA has reached 30,000 signatories, calling for it to develop a new ...
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Black Ops 2 built-in live streaming is tied to YouTube, on Xbox, PS3 ...
By Sinan Kubba
The first of its kind innovation coming from Activision and the game's developer, award-winning studio Treyarch, will allow players to live stream Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer League Play games, as well as the player's webcam and audio commentary while playing. ... Call of Duty: Black Ops II launches worldwide on November 13, 2012, on the Xbox® 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC.
Joystiq

Game Developer Diary #3 - New Website, Tap 2 Connect,Design ...
Stellar Conflict is a Real Time Strategy game for iPhone, Android, PC and Mac. Build your Fleet and Conquer your enemies, with over 20 unique ships and ...
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Game developer corner of the forums? | Polygon
There has been a growing rift between developers and game journalists for some ... Art, Games, and Other Things, Part 1: Why Video Games Aren't Exactly Art ...
www.polygon.com/.../game-developer-corner-of-the-forums

The November Issue Is Out Now - Game Developer Magazine
In this year's installment of the Power 50, Game Developer and Gamasutra editors ... the gameindustry whose efforts in art, audio, design, business, evangelism, ...
gdmag.com/blog/2012/10/the-november-issue-is-out-now.php

Hearst Takes Equity Stake in Game Developer Spooky Cool Labs ...
“Gaming isn't anything new, but part of our thinking is that at the heart of any creative expression is great IP.” Hearst ... A separate company, Fifth Column Games, was the developer behind that effort. ... FOLIO: Video: Christian Science Monitor ...
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