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Reggie courts core devs, questions motivation to Move

uploalorani — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:20:00 +0000

In an interview with IndustryGamers , Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime asserted that Nintendo does care about third parties and does need them, despite the fact that Nintendo’s business is sustained pretty well by first-party games. “The fact of the matter is we know we create great content for younger consumers,” he said, “we know we’ve got great content for more casual players, and we want fantastic content for that more active player who loves Metroid or Zelda, but maybe also wants something like a BioShock 2 to play as well.” Reggie then admitted, “We’re not good at it and it’s not a key focus area,” thus Nintendo’s interest in third-party developers. The boss man also reiterated, almost word for word, his previous position that Nintendo would begin work on the next Nintendo system when a developer was unable to do something on the current Wii hardware, and he repeated that an HD feature alone wouldn’t be enough to justify a new console.

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SXSW: Creating 87 bazillion guns for Borderlands

adabayana — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Fact: there are 16,164,886 guns in Borderlands according to Gearbox Software developers Matthew Armstrong and Jimmy Sieben. That’s a lot of guns. Remember that scene in The Matrix where Neo says “Guns. Lots and lots of guns.”? It’s a lot more than that.

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Windows Phone 7 app partners, marketplace, Netflix prototype shown

forexrobots — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft held a Windows Phone 7 blowout event today, revealing details about the new interface, games, and apps for the upcoming mobile OS. Among the software shown was a repeat of the coup it perpetrated on Xbox, namely a Netflix app for its mobile OS that includes Instant Streaming. Neat! In addition to Netflix, Microsoft listed a bunch of companies that have signed on for Windows Phone apps. Names like Hudson, EA Mobile, PopCap, and Foursquare should be familiar to iPhone users — as, we’re guessing, should be the apps these companies put out. Microsoft also revealed how you’ll buy these and other apps: through a new Windows Phone Marketplace , which will also allow developers to set trial periods for their downloads.

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Final Fantasy XIII tops UK sales chart, Just Dance shows stamina

aaarooon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:25:00 +0000

In its first week at retail, Final Fantasy XIII charged up the UK sales charts like a Lightning bolt, becoming the “fastest selling” game of the year — a record set by Bad Company 2 just last week . According to Chart-Track , the console sales split for the latest edition in Square Enix’s flagship series was fairly even, with a 54 to 46 percent split on PS3 and Xbox 360, respectively.

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OnLive’s Perlman would rather stay out of the hardware business

Ambilidillodo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

In an interview with Joystiq during the 2010 Game Developers Conference, OnLive president and CEO Steve Perlman said he’d prefer not to sell any kind of hardware for his company’s upcoming streaming game service. “The fact that we have to sell a piece of hardware for the TV, if you will, takes us out of our core business.” While OnLive will launch as a computer application on PC and Mac this summer , the company is also currently beta testing the OnLive Micro-console for use on televisions. “We think the Micro-console is a cool thing, but we’d rather not have any hardware at all,” Perlman said. Ideally, Perlman would like the OnLive service to be added to set top boxes — including adding the service to existing boxes via software update. “If it has a USB port [for the controller] and we have adequate performance in there, then it’s conceivable we can do it,” Perlman told Joystiq

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GDC 2010: EEDAR talks new IP strategy

2012 i ching — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Game industry analysis firm EEDAR dropped some interesting statistics during its GDC panel this year. The first half of the presentation — hosted by EEDAR president Geoffrey Zatkin — concerned new intellectual property in the games industry. According to Zatkin, the amount of new IP released has increased slightly over the last three years

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ESA says Rhode Island game bill is unconstitutional, Jack Thompson … agrees?

vaslav — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

[ Joe King ] Rhode Island bill S.2156 ( PDF ) is silly … ( How silly is it?

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OTOY to launch in ‘Q2 2010′ through AMD partnership

UlricheDmond — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:58:00 +0000

Y’know, OnLive and Gaikai aren’t the only game-streaming services on the block. OTOY has been laying low for a minute, but the “other” game streaming service has finally made its big announcement : it’s going to release in Q2 2010. In fact, OTOY isn’t just a service for streaming games; there are now claims of streaming movies, PC applications and “other graphically-intensive applications” to any mobile device with a web browser. OTOY will employ AMD Fusion Render Cloud technology, a CPU/GPU server platform that will stream games straight into your see pee youz through the company’s software suite. And if you have no idea what that means, check out a demo of the service right here , courtesy of TechCrunch — basically, it’s like playing games on your computer.

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Liked Battle Chess? Meet Battle vs. Chess

ronaldgates — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Battle vs. Chess appears to bring Battle Chess to a new generation, with a similar hook and a name that just skirts a potential copyright lawsuit. With “upbeat combat visuals & mechanics,” the game sounds like a modern update of the classic chess game that let us watch chess pieces beat the stuffing out of each other. There don’t appear to be any videos showing BvC ’s animations.

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