The relationship between games and media licenses is as old as games itself, but in the 21st century content creators and IP holders have been particularly keen to explore what opportunities the booming, fast-evolving video game industry can offer it…

With GDC 2012 a couple of weeks away, the show’s first-ever GDC Play showcase is starting to take shape, and organizers are highlighting some of the creators showing new games or studios there. As outlined previously, GDC Play is a…

[Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, a leading destination for English-language news on Japan's game industry.] In our latest round-up of Japanese game industry news not previously reported on Gamasutra, we…

Newsbrief: Independent game developer Day 1 Studios on Monday announced Reign of Thunder, a free-to-play multiplayer mech combat title. Day 1 is the studio behind BattleTech-licensed MechAssault, an early hit on the original Xbox Live released in 2002. A follow…

This new Kid Icarus: Uprising trailer shows the close links between the new title and Nintendo’s 1986 original. That’s good news for old-school fans – particularly if you like a game you

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Ubisoft’s released five minutes of new gameplay footage for Far Cry 3, complementing last week’s announce trailer with a rather more intimate – and bloody – look at how the game might

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Microsoft released a dashboard update over the weekend that restores indie titles to front-page prominence, a move welcomed by XBLIG developers feeling neglected by the system’s last big frontend revision…

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Valve’s Gabe Newell has suggested that the company may begin its own hardware development in the future, as this may be the only way for it to push innovation in its games. In an interview with Penny Arcade, Newell explained…

A new app posing as an iOS conversion of Pokemon Yellow is rocketing up the charts, despite being bogus and not working. “But that doesn’t sound like something Nintendo would put out,” you’re saying. Indeed it isn’t…

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The PC version of Remedy’s Alan Wake, released last week, managed to recoup its development and marketing expenses during the first 48 hours on sale. The game was released for PC on February 16, nearly two years after it originally…