The Nintendo DS role-playing game Pokemon Platinum has sold over 5.66 million units worldwide since its September 2008 debut in Japan, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company said Friday. The impressive amount is still just a drop in the bucket as…

Following initial results, NPD has provided Gamasutra with the full Top 20 U.S. console games for July 2009. As previously revealed, Nintendo and Electronic Arts dominated the top 10 with six and four titles, respectively, and that strength continued throughout…

Development tool provider Digini said that it will stop support for its subscription-based development engine Blade3D in six months — and competing engine developer Unity is swooping in with a discount offer for Blade3D customers who were “left out in…

Talking to Gamasutra in a larger feature, GoldenEye 007 and Bonsai Barber co-creator Martin Hollis has suggested, when it comes to game creation, “I’d rather have a band than an orchestra”, emphasizing collaboration, rather than direction to make great games.…

At 29 percent, July’s NPD revenue decline was even sharper than analysts expected — especially in the hardware arena, which dropped 37 percent year-on-year for July. But with 203,000 units sold during the month, Xbox 360′s unit sales came out…

Expect an iPhone title from Id every other month, says co-founder John Carmack. The company plans to form three separate “lines” of iPhone titles, and at the ongoing QuakeCon event in Dallas, Carmack illuminated the company’s extensive strategy for Apple’s…

Gamasutra’s weekly column, “Saling The World”, covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week’s charts, with data taken from August 13th, 2009,…

NPD’s July 2009 U.S. game industry sales have revealed a 29% overall revenue drop to $849 million, with DS and Wii Sports Resort leading hardware/game sales, as NPD analyst Anita Frazier says that “the worst comps should be behind us.”…

In this book extract, GameCareerGuide presents several tutorials based around getting a level up and running in Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 — with plenty of screenshots and step-by-step instructions taken from Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design…

Microsoft Game Studios Europe said Thursday that it licensed Havok Spectrum, giving the developer access to Havok’s physics, animation, and behavior middleware for future titles. The licensing deal comes just over a year after Microsoft Game Studios’ North American home…