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Game makers: Amazon’s Android appstore terms are greedy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2011
6 min

Amazon.com is in hot water for the pricing strategy and terms for developers in its new app store for Android games. Basically, game makers...

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Halfbrick’s Monster Dash is a case study in mobile cross promotion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2011
2 min

Mobile game maker Halfbrick made out like a bandit with its Fruit Ninja mobile game, selling its game to 23 million players. Now its...

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By 2015, 50 percent of companies will embrace gamification, Gartner says

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2011
2 min

If there’s any evidence that gamification has hit its hype peak, this is it. Gartner says that by 2015, more than 50 percent of...

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An attempt to grow up? We Dare and the state of the industry

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 14, 2011
4 min

Interactive entertainment has never quite made it out of its troubled adolescence. As far as we've come — all the way from simple, chunky...

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Valve’s alternate reality game stirs fascination with Portal 2

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2011
3 min

Hoping to build interest in its upcoming Portal 2 video game, game creator and publisher Valve has created an “alternate reality game” (ARG) to...

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Love game: Is virtual romance emblematic of traditional courtship?

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 13, 2011
4 min

I stumbled upon the Digital Romance Lab last week via Rock Paper Shotgun’s Sunday Papers. As writer Jim Rossignol suggests, Digital Romance Lab's "On Simulation, Science, and Love" is a beautiful post, so I wholeheartedly suggest you read it. More than that, it provides some context for this article.

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IMVU scores with Groupon-style buying in virtual world (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2011
2 min

IMVU has been selling virtual items such as clothing to its virtual world users for a long time. But the company saw some good...

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Microsoft details how developers can run with Kinect motion sensor

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2011
1 min

Microsoft showed developers today how they can exploit the Kinect motion sensor for applications that go beyond controlling video games for the Xbox 360....