[Every week, Indie.com: The Weblog co-editor-in-chief Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on “Best Of Indie ,” we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The delights in this edition include a racing game for the Xbox Live Indie service, a …
Newsbrief: Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi has raised its annual financial guidance following better-than-expected sales of its Disgaea franchise. For the 12 month period ended March 31, 2012, Nippon Ichi expects to see 203 million yen ($2.7 million) in profit, up from 59 million yen ($770,000), while overall revenue is expected to hit 2.29 billion yen ($30.1 million), down slightly from 2.25 billion yen ($29.5 million) previously. According to Japan-focused game site Andriasang, the company’s boost …
Electronic Arts has laid off what it’s calling a “small number” of employees at its Vancouver branch as part of a restructuring effort to focus more on its digital content. With the move, EA said it hopes to better align its Vancouver branch with the company’s current focus on digital, online, and free to play , reports Industry Gamers. While technically located just outside of Vancouver in Burnaby, British Colombia, this branch is home to …
Xbox Live’s policy and enforcement director Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse, who has worked at Microsoft for nearly 18 years, announced that he’s resigning from the company in two weeks to explore other opportunities. Toulouse often served as the public face for Xbox Live matters, and managed complaints and user bannings/suspensions on the Xbox 360 online service. He described his position as “[making] the Xbox Live experience a consistent, safe, and enjoyable one.” Prior to joining the …
[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Kingdom Rush, Hamlet HD and Paper Monsters currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Where’s My Water? ($0.99) 2. Kingdom Rush ($0.99) 3. Paper Monsters ($0.99) 4. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 5. Words With Friends HD ($0.99) 6. Angry Birds Rio HD ($2.99) …
This week, Double Fine launched Double Fine Happy Action Theater, a Kinect-based game and the first in its second set of small projects — a shift into little the studio made after 2009′s Brütal Legend. In this interview he reflects on those, and talks Kinect tech, too.
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?…
Don’t clear closet space for your 360 or PS3 just yet. Both Sony and Microsoft say their new machines are a ways off yet – and a leading third party says that’s exactly as it should be…
You’re probably wondering how Peach and Toad’s visit to the Dr Mario surgery could end up with a ‘NSFW’ tag, but that’s just about to happen. When artistic skill, video and a wicked sense of humour combine, you get something like this…
In this feature, the first in a series of articles, experienced iOS developer Jeremy Alessi walks us through the initial prototype and production of his latest game, friendly.fire, which is designed to take advantage of mobile play patterns.
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