"I just made $12 million while you were laughing at this picture." Modern Warfare 3 to ship with a subscription service called Call of Duty: Elite. Well, then. This is so industry-asploding money-printing what-were-movies-again big that some news sources you don’t expect ...

Cryptic acquired by Chinese MMO developer Perfect World for $50m. Atari originally purchased Cryptic for $28m plus $48m in bonuses. In other news, I bet I just broke everyone’s RSS feed! Read more from the original source: 隐秘

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has been missing a killer app, that one game that makes the phone more exciting than competing handsets. That ...

This is an epic read by Greg Costikyan, and I think he's bang on target: "social games" are for the most part, not particularly social, often somewhat anti-social, and yet could be actually-social - with a little more game design ...

Lord British, last seen in Ultima Online 3,647 days ago. Do you have $3.8 million lying about? Richard Garriott wants to talk to YOU. Lord British’s New Britannia (working title) will be a social networking game built around Garriott’s famous alter ego, ...

Jack Emmert to take over as CEO of Cryptic. ...of our days, and our nights... As a colleague, I am sad to see John go, but our vision remains clear,” says Emmert. “Cryptic continues to develop great gaming experiences while ensuring the ...

For some reason, this image comes up in Google Image Search for "Bill Roper". Bill Roper, of Blizzard/Flagship/Cryptic/his living room fame, gives a wide ranging interview to Gamasutra about what it was like to go from Diablo to a game considerably ...

There is an upcoming book called Farmville for Dummies. Let's all sit back for a moment and bask in the fact we live in ...

Gamasutra reports that a 29-year-old British man has been convicted of hacking into Zynga's game servers and helping himself to 400 billion virtual poker chips. "'The defendant sold around one third of the 400 billion poker chips, and looking at the ...

EA CFO Eric Brown, in a conference call to investors, said EA CFO Eric Brown didn’t know what he was talking about when he said Old Republic was EA’s largest project ever. “At half a million subscribers, the game is substantially ...

10 Immutable Truths of Entrepreneurship Fonts In Use – The Chop Shop Migo Land

Gamasutra reports that Congressman Joe Baca (D-CA) has introduced legislation that would require video games with a rating of T or higher to have a warning label that alerts buyers to the dangers of simulated violence. The warning would read: ...

The best portable gaming device is arguably the one you carry the most often, and in that regard the iPhone excels. The hardware is ...

So last Monday, Nintendo held an event about their upcoming glasses-less 3D handheld gaming device and it was pretty much about the Japanese release date and the crappy battery life. Well, earlier today, Nintendo of America held their press event regarding ...

eldavojohn writes "A new study published today in Pediatrics Journal conducted in Singapore on three thousand children in grades third, fourth, seventh and eighth claims that one in ten are video game addicts and almost all of those suffer mental ...

Gamasutra reports that cloud gaming service OnLive has reached an agreement with Vizio to integrate OnLive directly into the hardware manufacturer's TVs and blu-ray players. "Vizio also announced that it will introduce ... tablets and smartphones based on Google's Android ...

digitaldc writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra: "The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense Department. The Condor Cluster, as ...

An anonymous reader writes "Thom 'SSGTRAN' Tran, seen in the Call of Duty: Black Ops live action trailer and in the game as the NVA multiplayer character, gets interviewed and talks about Medal of Honor's Taliban drama. '... to me, ...

An anonymous reader writes "Gamasutra reports that a US District Court judge has dismissed the patent infringement lawsuit brought against RuneScape developer Jagex discussed previously on Slashdot. Judge David Folsom last week dismissed online chat company Paltalk's claims that Jagex ...

The original Diablo made its way to the PlayStation back in 1998, and it looks like the upcoming Diablo III may be doing the ...

Mmmyeah, if you could not come in ever again? That'd be super. Rumors and signs are running rampant that the yearly tradition of mass layoffs at EA are about to hit again. Earnings call scheduled for 11/2 — traditionally this is when ...

Are we moving closer to the official announcement of a PlayStation Phone? Engadget is running images of a device it claims to be the ...

50 Open Source Apps Transforming Education | software specialist David Abraham: don't penalise us for dropping Big Brother Channel 4's audiences are shrinking, and its income is dependent on advertiser numbers. Women Don’t Want To Run Startups Because They’d Rather Have Children Gamasutra - ...

Persuasive Games: Free Speech is Not a Marketing Plan So I say this to you, my video game maker brethren: say something. Say it like you mean it. Otherwise you just make a mockery of those who do, those who have ...

Gamasutra has a lengthy interview with NetDevil's Ryan Seabury, creative director for LEGO Universe, which is due to launch next month. He talks about some of the difficulties in graphically optimizing a game with so many discrete, interactive objects, and ...

How we publish an online game - Blog - Preloaded - We do nice things Wonderful How-To...! Bozek, Former Head Of Atari London, Talks Social Studio Start-Up o/ View original post here: Links for 2010-09-09 [del.icio.us]

[Following his looks at Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man, writer and theorist Eric-Jon Rossel-Tairne now examines the inexorable rise of Shigeru Miyamoto, from Donkey Kong through Mario Bros to Super Mario Bros.] It is 1981. Somewhere between testing and ...

In highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs, industry notables write about diverse topics, including the implementation of virtual goods, a message to developers in Dundee, and the purpose of games. In our weekly Best of Expert Blogs column, we showcase notable ...

Japanese social gaming platform holder, DeNA, is hoping to tempt US developers to release games on its service with talk of giant profits to be made. "The amount of money to be made in Japanese social gaming is astronomical," said ...

Japanese social gaming platform DeNA is talking up a giant profit opportunity, hoping to tempt U.S. developers to release games on its service in Japan. "The amount of money to be made in Japanese social gaming is astronomical," said DeNA ...

Following Apple's announcement that its social gaming network Game Center will be launching alongside revised iPod Touch hardware next week, Aurora Feint revealed "OpenFeint PlayTime," a new infrastructure allowing real-time multiplayer gameplay across iOS and Android devices. Addressing Game Center ...

UK retailer GAME has furthered its presence in the digital downloads space with the announcement of a new software tool called GAME Downloader. Built by software developer GameShadow and usable through a web browser, the application will scan a user's ...

Blitz Game Studios has announced that its BlitzTech game development tools will now feature full motion control functionality for use with the Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation's Move. BlitzTech,which is used internally by the UK firm and also licensed to ...

Sony made an announcement today at the International Franchise Association Trade Show in Berlin that the PlayStation 3 firmware update that will allow users to watch Blu-ray movies in steroscopic 3D has been pushed back to October, according to consumer ...

LucasArts has confirmed to Gamasutra that the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II developer and publisher has reduced its staff, following media reports of layoffs at its San Francisco headquarters. After reports at consumer weblog Kotaku that a layoff of ...