Archive for March, 2011
Everyone’s testing the limits of the Nintendo 3DS augmented reality , but it does seem that if you can replicate one of the cards it uses – preferably the question-mark box – you can start the game from anywhere, whether it’s on the screen of an iPhone or, now, a white board. More »
[Every week, Gamasutra rounds up the titles released for the major console and portable digital delivery services, as compiled by editor Ryan Langley over at sister site GamerBytes.] It’s time to look at the digital-first titles debuting this week across both North America and Europe on the major console digital systems, including the Xbox 360′s [...]
Game retailer top is buying Impulse, the video game digital distribution subsidiary of Stardock and rival to Valve’s Steam. top also bought game streaming outfit Spawn Labs, which will bring “immediate access to a wide selection of high-definition video on demand on any Internet-enabled device.” Sure sounds like they’re taking on OnLive. More details at [...]
Organizers of GDC Europe 2011 are reminding on the call for submissions for Main Conference and new focused Summits for this August’s conference in Cologne, Germany. Taking place Monday through Wednesday, August 15-17, 2011 at the Cologne Congress-Centrum Ost, GDC Europe 2011 will again provide the essential pan-European perspective of game development and business trends [...]
Vampire franchise BloodRayne is making a return, albeit in one less dimension; Majesco’s announced that BloodRayne: Betrayal, a Wayforward Technologies-developed side-scroller for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, is expected to arrive sometime this summer. The new hack ‘n slash adventure teams Rayne up with “a mysterious new friend to stop an evil vampire massacre,” [...]
Square Enix’s Final Fantasy IV: Complete Collection re-release for the PSP premiered atop the Japanese game sales charts for the week ending March 27, according to tracking firm Media Create. The RPG was the only title to sell over 100,000 units for the week, and sold nearly three times as much as last week’s top-seller, [...]
Should Apple continue improving on iPad’s processing and graphical capabilities at the rate demonstrated with the just-released iPad 2, the tablet could in only a few year’s time be at a point where it could handle the impressive looking DX11 demo Epic showed off at GDC earlier in the year. While the Samaritan footage (see [...]
Every week, sister iOS gaming site FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad , as current that day in the iTunes App Store, and this chart is now available on Gamasutra. This week’s U.S. revenue charts see Final Fantasy III and Angry Birds Rio earning top iPhone sales, while Sword & Sworcery [...]
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