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Sony slashes three studios, more than 200 game jobs

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2011
1 min

Sony Online Entertainment confirmed today that it will cut 205 jobs and close three studios as part of a restructuring effort. The company is...

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GameSalad raises $6M in quest to make everyone a game developer

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2011
2 min

GameSalad, a maker of game development tools, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. The company’s goal is to enable anyone...

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Hey, sports fans: GameSlam turns baseball games interactive with virtual betting

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2011
3 min

Baseball fans will be happy couch potatoes today with the opening day of Major League Baseball. But for fans who get fidgety in between...

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A Sort of Sword & Sworcery EP Review for Artistic Consideration and Platform Debate and Intelligent Discourse

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 31, 2011
13 min

Before we begin, give yourself a pat on the back for owning an iPad. Feels good, amirite? Our day of reckoning has come. Sword...

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The seven tricks everyone can learn from game designers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2011
3 min

Gamification, the practice of adding game-like mechanics to non-game applications to improve engagement, is going through a hype cycle. And one of its leading...

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Immersion forms game studio to show off touch feedback

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 30, 2011
2 min

Immersion, a pioneer in force feedback technology, announced today that it’s formed a new app and game studio to develop and publish apps with...

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Nintendo: 3DS had most successful handheld debut ever

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 30, 2011
1 min

Nintendo said that its U.S. launch of the new 3DS gaming handheld — which lets players see images in stereoscopic 3D without special glasses...

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Apple’s WWDC tickets sell out in less than a day — is it another jab at game conferences?

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 30, 2011
2 min

Tickets for Apple’s Worldwide Development Conference (WWDC), its annual conference geared toward developers for its operating systems, sold out in less than a day....