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News Blips: U.S. Expenditures on MMOs, Warren Spector & Motion Control, Michael Pachter’s Infinity Ward Predictions, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2010
2 min

It seems America's competitive spirit extends to exorbitant spending on digital pixels. News Blips: GamesIndustry conducted a study that shows American gamers spent $3.8...

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WildTangent cuts ad deal with social game firm Playdom

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2010
1 min

WildTangent said today it has scored a significant new customer for its BrandBoost ad platform for social games. It is now teaming up with...

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Video Blips: PlayStation Move Demo, Green Day: Rock Band Trailer, Global Agenda, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2010
1 min

I wonder if the vibrate feature in Sony's new controller can double as a back-massaging device, just like every other vibrating gadget. Video Blips:...

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Video game awards night: irreverence, strangeness and blockbusters

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2010
4 min

The awards night for the Game Developers Conference is always a hoot. It starts out with the Independent Games Festival, where the industry celebrates...

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BioWare’s Ray Muzyka on how to build a game company (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2010
1 min

Ray Muzyka, chief executive of popular video game-maker BioWare, spoke at our GamesBeat@GDC conference in San Francisco about building game franchises. While onstage, Muzyka...

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U.S. video game sales drop again in February even with big game launches

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2010
2 min

Video game sales fell 15 percent in February compared to a year ago as the industry struggles to climb out of the recession. That’s...

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Nintendo’s creator of Metroid Other M explains how he creates both serious and comic games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2010
3 min

It’s a little funny that the producer of the serious game Metroid Other M is also behind the comic expression of Nintendo’s WarioWare series of handheld...

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Image Metrics raises $8M via stock deal to create realistic human face animations for games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2010
1 min

Image Metrics, a company that makes it easy for game developers to create realistic human faces, has raised $8 million in a reverse merger...

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Sony pulls out the stops for God of War III launch party (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2010
1 min

Just after Sony debuted its new motion controller tonight, the Japanese company threw a big God of War III launch party. The game has...

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InstantAction makes big downloadable games instantly available to play online

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2010
3 min

Instant gratification seems to be the big trend in games. First Otoy, then OnLive, and now another game startup, InstantAction, are all talking about...

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