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Release This: Nba 09, Live 09, 2k9 Debut Worldwide; Korg Ds-10 Hits Uk
gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "release this!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in an exclusively compiled list. nba-licensed basketball titles from 2k, ea, and sony headline this week's multiconsole offerings in the united states and europe. uk gamers will additionally see lego batman: the video game this week, along ...
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Silverbirch Gets $500,000 For Crossfire English Launch - gamasutra
toronto-based silverbirch is getting $500,000 in equity financing. the company is parent to several interactive entertainment businesses, including mobile and handheld game developer silverbirch studios. the company says it'll invest most of the new ...
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Interview: Meeting The Needs Of Hispanic Girls With Hip Chicas
as lazaro fuentes, ceo and creative director of the hip chicas brand, tells gamasutra, 50 percent of kids born in america since 2004 are hispanic. and while there's plenty of culturally-focused content for young kids -- dora the explorer, handy manny, and maya and miguel, among others, there's a "gaping hole" for latino content aimed at 'tweens. hip chicas recently launched a beta for its ...
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Ask The Experts: Qa 4eva?
in the latest advice column from gamecareerguide, a reader admits to working in quality assurance testing for nearly ten years, and by golly, isn't that enough already? jennifer bullard, a senior producer at aspyr media and jill duffy, editor of gamecareerguide, share their advice about how to advance a dead-end career. gamasutra, which is affiliated with gamecareerguide, is also running this ...
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nintendo: dsi software will be region-locked [10.06.08] nintendo now says that software released specifically for the dsi will be region-locked, contrary to statements from sales and marketing evp cammie dunaway implying the opposite. standard ...
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Game Crediting: Is Standardization Really Needed? - gamasutra
following the recent controversy over warhammer online 's credits, gamasutra has a comprehensive feature talking to reps from the igda, mythic, and valve - agreeing the need to credit those who worked on games, but not to standardize. speaking to ...
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Ngmoco And Gdc Team Up To Offer $10,000 'best Iphone Game' Prize
think services, organizers of the game developers conference and the independent games festival (and the owners of gamasutra), have entered a new partnership with high-profile iphone game publisher ngmoco. the deal will add a $10,000 'best iphone game' prize to 2009's independent games festival mobile, and increase the maximum amount of prizes in the hotly contested indie mobile competition to ...
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Afro Samurai's Robinson: We Married Outsourcing Losers Before Finding Prince
"oh man, we married a lot of losers before we found the prince," says david robinson, afro samurai senior producer with namco bandai's internal u.s. team. he means art outsourcing firms, of course, talking about finding a good match as part of a new, in-depth gamasutra interview. "it wasn't that the companies were bad, it's just that a lot of people [think] that they can do game development, ...
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due - gamasutra
[the recent warhammer online crediting controversy has raised the profile of how games credit developers -- gamasutra talks to mythic's mark jacobs, the igda, valve's doug lombardi and others about what matters in game credits.] practically everyone ...
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Alten8 Restructures, Creates Two Game Dev Branches - gamasutra
uk-based licensor, developer, and publisher alten8 limited ( c64 all stars )will restructure and reorganize its business, devoting two individual branches to game development. the two development branches, skull monkey games and retro-soft, will be ...
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Game Crediting: Is Standardization Really Needed?
following the recent controversy over warhammer online's credits, gamasutra has a comprehensive feature talking to reps from the igda, mythic, and valve - agreeing the need to credit those who worked on games, but not to standardize. speaking to gamasutra, mythic's mark jacobs outlined his previously announced solution for the warhammer online mmo -- to have a separate public online database ...
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Vgxpo Expands With East Coast Games Summit - gamasutra
lunar tide communications, co-producers of america's video game expo (vgxpo), announced the east coast games summit, a new addition to the november 21 – 23 event taking place at the pennsylvania convention center, in philadelphia, pa. the summit ...
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Saling The World: Kirby, Pokemon Lead Worldwide Ds Demand
gamasutra's weekly column, "saling the world", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the united states, japan, and europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. this week's charts, with data taken from october 2nd, 2008, find kirby super star ultra overtaking guitar hero: on tour in north american nintendo ds sales, while pocket monsters platinum ...
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Bonus Feature: Hudson Veteran Talks Game History
in a special gamasutra bonus feature published today, we delve into the history of bomberman creator hudsonsoft with 27-year company veteran, adventure island star, and 16 button-presses per second nes champ takahashi meijin. meijin, whose actual name is toshiyuki takahashi, has been working at hudson since 1981, and became famous for being able to hit the nes' controller button 16 times a ...
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20th Century Fox Appoints Thq Vet For Licensed Games - gamasutra
film studio twentieth century fox appointed gary rosenfeld, thq's former svp of business development, as its vice president of new media licensing. rosenfeld will oversee the company's portfolio of licensed video games based on its movie properties ...
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Nintendo Confirms 2009 Dsi Western Release, Club Nintendo Program - gamasutra
at its san francisco press event, nintendo followed up on its japanese dsi announcement by revealing the updated handheld won't debut in the u.s. until "well into 2009," also revealing club nintendo's north american debut. the dsi itself wasn't the ...
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gamasutra Podcast Talks To Shawn Elliott On Moving From Journalism To Development
gamasutra is proud to present the latest gamasutra podcast, part of our regular gdc radio podcasts, which include both the tom kim-presented gamasutra podcast show, alongside the best lectures, tutorials, and roundtables from this and previous years' game developers conferences. for today's podcast, we present an interview with shawn elliott, newly appointed associate producer at 2k games, ...
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Microsoft Confirms Payton, Other Major Hires For Halo Franchise
microsoft's phil spencer has confirmed to gamasutra the addition of kojima productions' ryan payton and pseudo interactive's david wu, alongside a number of other major hires, to "develop new and exciting projects within the halo universe" and help support bungie & ensemble projects. payton, who left the metal gear solid 4 creator in late august to work closer to his family in north america, ...
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Take-two Decides To Stay Independent - gamasutra
take-two will remain an independent company. the publisher says it's done reviewing its options since ea walked away from the bargaining table, and has decided not to sell to anyone. "our management and outstanding and talented employees have ...
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The Game Master Speaks: Hudson's 'takahashi-meijin' Goes Retro - gamasutra
hudson was, during the '80s and early '90s, one of the most stalwart and popular game publishers. as the first third party to work on nintendo's famicom (nes) system in japan, the company quickly established itself as a purveyor of popular games, and ...
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