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Cheat Sheet 5/21: Angry Birds Land exists, Leap 3D is the best motion control so far, and Overkill and Valve are partnering.
Here’s the news for today: – Rovio is planning on building theme park Angry Birds Land in China. – Leap 3D is a new competitor in the motion control space and outdoes Kinect by 200 times the accuracy. – Overkill Software is partnering with Valve to blend Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead. – The Wii
The party’s crashing us: What does Facebook’s IPO fizzle mean for Angry Birds and FarmVille?
Facebook’s IPO last Friday was by a major disappointment by most accounts. The implications of the underwhelming launch had a negative impact on Zynga, whose own IPO in late 2011 was similarly disappointing, closing at a lower price than it launched at. Is there a structural cause connecting the amb
Can art and technology ever truly marry? The God of War team explains their process.
In an article at Gamasutra, Chris Sutton, art director at Sony Santa Monica discusses the interplay between art and technology at the studio. Rather than keeping the two teams discrete entities, the studio encourages constant communication between the two. Visual aesthetics and technology are “so in
One big publisher plans to profit from the succes of Kickstarter. Here’s their plan.
In its bid to remain at the center of the ever-shifting videogame business, EA announced it will waive all fees for crowd-funded games for 90 days on its PC-based distribution platform Origin. The first confirmed title to take advantage of the offer is Wasteland 2, the sequel to the beloved PC rolep
Social game company Lightside releases game about Jesus’s life same day as Diablo III.
As everyone now knows and to every girlfriend’s dismay, Diablo III was released last Tuesday. The internet exploded with cries of server malfunctions and error numbers while anyone that was able to get in to the game secluded themselves from the rest of the world for periods of time likely to bring
How a couple from the Netherlands wants to use their game to make you fall in love.
Video Tale of Tales, the game design duo behind The Graveyard, Vanitas, and Fatale, are working on a new game for autumn 2012. The project, Bientôt l’été, is an abstract multiplayer game inspired by French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. Like their earlier work, Bientôt l’été won’t be about
Are pro-athletes doomed to fail in business? MMO maker 38 Studios may be proof.
“There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. The sentiments seems to be painfully true with athletes migrating from the locker room to the board room. Last week, Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios had to choose between paying its employees for the week or going into default on a
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