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Command & Conquer 4 won’t have LAN support or dedicated servers

Aliko Malinnis — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:30:00 +0000

Based on the precedent set by your reaction to similar news for StarCraft 2 and Modern Warfare 2 , we’re guessing you’re not going to like the information Command & Conquer 4 lead designer Sam Bass recently shared with Destructoid . According to him, the FMV-filled strategy title won’t provide any LAN or dedicated server support to its players. These two features were apparently struck from the game in favor of a server-based character progression system .

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Report: Games industry to $65 billion by 2013

sollapype — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:00:00 +0000

According to IndustryGamers , a report from market intelligence firm Strategy Analystics predicts that the video game industry is primed for some serious growth in the coming years. Specifically, the report states that the worldwide game industry will like reach revenues of $64.9 billion by 2013. As the industry just recently reached a value of 46.5 billion in 2009, that’s an increase of $18.4 billion, or 39.5% over the next three years. The report notes that sales of packaged software will increase, but increased sales of digital goods, in-game ads and subscriptions will play the primary role in growth

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Richard Garriott re-enters games atmosphere with new social media project: Portalarium

DeetteDaymn — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Known spacefarer and castle-owner Richard Garriott isn’t going to let a relatively unsuccessful MMORPG launch keep him down. Lord British himself, along with former NCSoft colleagues Dallas Snell, Fred Schmidt and Stephen Nichols, has revealed the launch of a “broad-based” social media company dubbed Portalarium. The outfit is working to first offer “online game apps” and then hopes to expand into “open learning, open health, open science/environment, open government and much more.” Whatever that means. The announcement was kind enough to detail the company’s first big project: The Portalarium Player, a browser plug-in that allows games developed on a number of platforms (i.e., not just Flash) to work within the confines of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

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Blizzard offers updated look at the new Battle.Net

amalgaminsha — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Let’s be honest. Between Diablo III , Stacraft II and the new World of Warcraft expansion , we’re all going to be pretty heavily embroiled in Blizzard’s games over the next couple of years.

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Facebook nabbing its first FPS: Brave Arms

amateurgrlww — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:30:00 +0000

Our biggest gripe with Facebook “games” most times is the lack of actual gameplay involved in them. Things like Mafia Wars seem much more like stat management spreadsheets couched in a social networking medium rather than games with a social media component. That said, it seems that 3G Studios is bringing a full on 3D shooter to the website in Brave Arms , announced this week and set for a March launch

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250GB Xbox 360 HDD headed to Japan in March

CheapPaxilHere — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced ( translation ) that it will release a standalone 250GB hard drive in Japan later this year. The drive – which carries a price tag of

Nathan Drake hoping to take home more shiny trinkets at AIAS awards

sweefechobe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:20:00 +0000

We’re in the thick of awards season, and video games are no exception. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced its finalists for the 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (“The ‘Racties” — we’re kidding but that’s what they should be called), and, as you might have guessed, award hog Uncharted 2: Among Thieves leads the pack with 15 nominations. The rest of the nominees include more of the usual suspects from 2009: Assassin’s Creed II with 10 noms, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with nine and Batman: Arkham Asylum with eight. This year’s awards also features three new categories, including Outstanding Achievement in Game Design and Portable and Social Networking Games of the Year

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OnLive technology demonstrated at Columbia University

SilvesterHoward — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:45:00 +0000

You might want to go ahead and put on your thickest, darkest sunglasses, because you’re about to be blinded with science . OnLive founder and CEO Steve Perlman recently showed off the game-streaming technology’s applications to a group of students at Columbia University in New York.

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Game-related startups raise $600 million in 2009, down 36%

Versroapssada — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:15:00 +0000

Game-related startup companies raised $600 million throughout 2009, according to GamesBeat’s analysis . And while $600 million is a lot of money if you’re, say, trying to sell a shooter based on the art of modern warfare, it’s not quite that much when you’re an up-and-coming game developer.

Crispy Gamer buys GamerDNA

pete — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:30:00 +0000

It looks like Crispy Gamer’s review of GamerDNA — following the partnership announced back in February , known as the “Try It” period — has come back and the verdict is: Buy It. Mass High Tech Business News reports that the Cambridge-based GamerDNA has “found a buyer” in NY-based game site, Crispy Gamer, but will “continue to exist as a separate entity.” GamerDNA CEO Jon Radoff writes that the social-networking- slash -data-driven gaming site he founded two and a half years ago has “merged” with Crispy Gamer and the serial entrepreneur won’t be sticking around long.

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