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Best of Indie Games: From Beat Hazard Ultra to Shank 2
This week on "Best Of Indie Games," we
take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable
titles released over this last week. The delights in this edition
include the release of the much-anticipated sequel to Shank, a
student project that pays tribute to Visceral Games' Dead Space
series, a first-person dungeon crawler for XBLIG, plus a pinball
simulator styled after video pinball classics like Epic Pinball
and the 21st Century Pinball series. ...
NaturalMotion nabs EA Playfish veteran to head London studio
Newsbrief: NaturalMotion Games has
reportedly hired Dan Borthwick, formerly common technology lead
at Electronic Arts' social game subsidiary Playfish, to lead its
mobile-focused studio in London. Borthwick is the latest in a
string of social game veterans who have recently departed from
EA, including Playfish's former London headquarters GM and VP
John Earner, Playfish CTO Sami Lababidi, EA Interactive head
Barry Cottle, and EA Interactive VP Sebastien de Halleux. One of
the founding developers for ...
Kabam: MMO and social cross-pollination is complete
In Gamasutra's latest feature, Kabam VP
Matt Ricchetti argues that the casual social and hardcore social
mechanics of Facebook games and MMOs have gelled together into
one toolbox. "As the online game landscape becomes less black and
white, social innovation requires more work," writes Ricchetti.
"When we established Kingdoms of Camelot as an early hardcore MMO
on Facebook, we had a clear point of differentiation from
previous games. Since then, the Facebook landscape has become ...
Rovio reveals Angry Birds Space for mobile
Newsbrief: Developer and publisher Rovio
Mobile has announced that Angry Birds Space, the next entry from
its phenomenally successful bird-flinging franchise, will launch
on March 22. The Finnish company will debut Angry Bird Space with
mobile gaming, animation, retail, and publishing components
simultaneously -- which it claims is a first for a mobile title.
Rovio also says Angry Bird Space will be "a completely new game."
Since Angry Birds' debut in 2009 for iOS, the ...
Starbreeze lays off 25 just days before Syndicate's release
Swedish developer Starbreeze has
reportedly laid off 25 workers, shortly after the completion of
its upcoming Syndicate reboot and days before Electronic Arts is
scheduled to release the game. It's a significant reduction for
the independent studio -- before the cut, while Starbreeze was
finishing Syndicate, it employed 93 workers. It's been shrinking
since early last year, when the company had a staff of about 120.
Along with these layoffs, Peter Tornquist, who has served ...
GDC 2012 highlights Sims Social, F2P design panel, Naughty Dog talks
As part of a continuing series of updates
for the 2012 Game Developers Conference, show organizers have
revealed three new sessions within the Game Design track,
featuring a panel with notable speakers such as David Edery (Spry
Fox) and Ben Cousins (Ngmoco Sweden), and presentations on EA's
The Sims Social and Naughty Dog's approach to psychologically-led
design. As part of the discipline-specific Game Design track,
these talks will feature some of the industry's top designers,
...
Judge denies Zynga's motion to dismiss case over alleged FarmVille code theft
MyFarm developer SocialApps' lawsuit
against Zynga over alleged source code theft with FarmVille is
headed to court, after a federal judge denied Zynga's motion to
dismiss the case. SocialApps filed the suit last June, accusing
Zynga of using MyFarm's source code and other information to
create Facebook hit FarmVille, without the consent of the
California-based studio and without compensation. It said Zynga
may have used the code to develop other popular titles like
FrontierVille and ...
UKIE: Crowd-funding should be permitted in UK
British industry trade body UKIE has
published guidelines on how it believes crowd-funding can be
permitted in the UK to benefit video game developers. Currently,
regulations are in place that limit crowd-funding schemes in the
UK in a bid to protect consumers from fraudulent investment
models. However, UKIE's new report states that "minimal changes"
can be made to legislation to make crowd-funding a viable route
for developers. In particular, the organization pointed out
Double Fine's ...
Sony completes Sony Ericsson buyout, renames mobile subsidiary
Newsbrief: Sony has completed its full
acquisition of Xperia Play partner Sony Ericsson, buying out
Ericsson's remaining 50 percent stake in the joint venture for
1.05 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in cash. This completes the
acquisition which was originally announced back in October,
making Sony Ericsson a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, and
bringing the Xperia Play mobile gaming platform in-house. The
company also announced that it is set to rename Sony Ericsson --
in the ...
PS Move app Move.me made available to European academics
Newsbrief: Sony has launched its
PlayStation Move programming application Move.me in Europe,
having previously made the software available to academics and
researchers in the U.S. Move.me takes advantage of the PS Move's
internal motion sensors and PS Eye camera tracking, allowing
developers to export that data to Windows or Linux-based PCs
(tablets and smartphones can also receive the data when connected
to a PS3) and create applications based on that information. The
software has already ...
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