A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone?

A Gambling Parlor on Your Smartphone - Businessweek: " A poker game could come with such options as letting players buy a round of virtual drinks for the table, he says. “We can build an experience around the games, with great casual twists that casino makers don’t understand,” he says. Griffin says casino games are only the beginning for social game developers. At a recent hackathon, designers showed titles that included raising a horse in a fashion similar to FarmVille-type games, and then paying to enter a race against other players’ horses. “Real money resets everything and creates a level playing field,” Griffin says. “This is not an incremental change. This is really a tectonic shift.”"

MoMa in NYC declares video games art, plans exhibit to include Pac-Man, the ...
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To prepare for the video game art and design exhibit, the curators consulted with “scholars, digital conservation and legal experts, historians, and critics,” according to AnimeNewsNetwork.com. It's intended to preserve and exhibit video game art as a ...

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Zynga shares slide after privileged status with Facebook ends
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The corporate logo of Zynga Inc, the social network game development company, is shown at its headquarters in San Francisco in this April 26, 2012 file photo. Game provider Zynga Inc slashed its 2012 outlook and quarterly results badly missed Wall ...

Sunday Sidebar: Meet Daniel Jacobsen and David Baumgart from Gaslamp ...
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We had some contractors as well, a business development guy, a sound guy, a web guy, a couple of others. As far as the making of the game, though, with the exception of the sound, it was David, myself and Nicholas (Vining, Lead Programmer). We grew...
 
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Game developer ponders whether art can ever be as good as ...
By Andrew Webster
The question of whether games can be considered art is an ongoing debate, but one developerwonders whether the question should actually be the other way around. In a refreshingly satirical look at...
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Game developer Zynga sees shares tumble 13 PER ... - Daily Mail
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2012 In Games - Game Developer Magazine
The past year of video games in three stories. Due to the ... -this article was originally published in the December issue of Game Developer Execution at E3 ...

Being a game developer, as a business, has more in common to ...
If you like playing video games but would hate running a taco truck, you should probably not get into business as a game developer. n.b. This is broadly true of ...

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