Warren Spector, the man behind the Deus Ex, System Shock, and Epic Mickey series (to name a few), has been picked to receive the Lifetime Achievement trophy at the 12th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards…
The new trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier offers a look at the game’s single-player campaign. It’s also the Commando of videogame trailers, with more deaths in two minutes than many titles manage in an hour…
The holiday season of 2011 was one of EA’s most profitable in years: the company says it’s its best financial period in 31 quarters…
Though THQ denied reports of trouble within its walls a few weeks ago, rumors are rumbling again that the company has seen drastic layoffs, including VP of tech Mark DeLoura…
The live-action Phoenix Wright film
recently made its world debut at the International Film Festival
Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Couldn’t make it? Afraid you’ll miss
out on this generation’s greatest video game film adaptation? No
worries, director Miike Takashi confirmed the film will be
receiving a worldwide release. Any objections?…
[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Double Fine's Tim Schafer, FASA founder Jordan Weisman, Zynga's Brian Reynolds, and many others.] In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week, a wide variety of developers, publishers, and indies shared their thoughts on game cloning, arcade titles from Atari designers, and Kinect’s future. This Week’s Noteworthy Game Industry Quotes “There are now more opportunities than ever for game …
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra’s jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Visceral , 2K Marin, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and others. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site’s daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across Gamasutra’s network of submarket sites, which includes content …
[Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online market from This Is Game, the leading English-language site about the country's game industry.] In our latest round-up of news from South Korea’s online space, we look at a new game ratings group set up by the government, plans to review online gaming regulations, and WeMade Entertainment purchasing online action game Lost Saga. 470,000 minors presumably addicted to The South …
Apple struck a blow against video game clones today by removing several offending apps from one rather prolific independent developer. Among the removed are apps such as Plant vs. Zombie, Angry Ninja Birds, and Temple Jump, each of which (as you might guess from their titles) had more than a little in common with with major titles such as Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, and Temple Run, respectively. The recently-removed Temple Jump in particular …
With the 2012 Game Developers Conference inching ever closer, show organizers are highlighting new talks within the Smartphone & Tablet Summit, featuring Halfbrick on Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, PopCap on Bejeweled Blitz, and Pocket Gems on post-release development. These talks join an already jam-packed lineup for the Smartphone & Tablet Summit, which will feature sessions covering the latest and most influential practices in mobile development, spanning platforms from iOS, Android, Windows Phone, …
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