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Far Cry 3 Multiplayer beta coming this summer

dblaze — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:20:03 +0000

Far Cry 3′s multiplayer is shaping up to be quite interesting, but if you’re the kind of person who wants to try it first-hand you’ll have that chance when the beta launches this summer…

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Your game industry in your words: Week of May 18

dblaze — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:02:00 +0000

[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, Blizzard Entertainment's Jay Wilson, Zynga's Seth Sivak, and many others.] In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week, a wide variety of developers, publishers, and indies shared their thoughts on when not to become a game designer, Facebook’s relationship with game developers, why sound designers need to come out the booth. This Week’s Noteworthy Game …

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Get a job: SCE Santa Monica and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:38:00 +0000

In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra’s jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at SCE Santa Monica Studios, Monolith Productions, and others. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site’s daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across Gamasutra’s network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused …

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EA to shut down its Dragon Age social game

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:10:00 +0000

Newsbrief: After shutting down more than a dozen of its online-enabled games earlier this year, Electronic Arts has announced that it will turn off its free-to-play browser game Dragon Age Legends this June. EA shuts down its aging online games on a fairly regular basis, but Dragon Age Legends is still relatively young compared to other games that have gotten the axe. The title first debuted in March 2011, right around the launch of BioWare’s …

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Gamasutra Classics: Behind the scenes of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:18:00 +0000

[Gamasutra Classics is a weekly article that flashes back to content published years ago, because the most valuable lessons grow better with age. This week, we look back at the origin of the long-running Tom Clancy series, just days before the new Ghost Recon: Future Soldier hits store shelves.] January 21, 2000 — The Red Storm-developed Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six may have already sparked a new line of big-budget tactical shooters following its launch in …

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Dungeon Defenders and DLC Quest highlight this week’s Best of Indie Games

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:10:00 +0000

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 a percussion-focused rhythm game for Windows and Mac platforms, a highlight from Indie Royale’s May Hurray Bundle, a product of the Indie Buskers campaign, plus a free Flash game from Pippin Barr called Hot Coffee. Here’s some recent highlights from IndieGames.com: Game Pick: ‘Tambour’ …

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Report: EA loses lead developer for top-secret AAA social game

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:46:00 +0000

For the past several years, EA has reportedly been working on an important top-secret project: a big-budget social game that would allow the company’s Playfish division to go toe-to-toe with Zynga. That project recently encountered a bit of a hiccup, however, as the project’s lead has allegedly left EA for a new job. Business Insider reports that the former executive producer Catharina Mallet was put in charge of this top-secret Zynga killer to help EA …

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EA’s Origin attracting crowdfunded projects with free distribution

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:46:00 +0000

Electronic Arts will allow developers with crowd-funded projects to release their PC games through its download platform Origin, without having to pay any distribution fees for 90 days. This program is designed to allow EA to lure more studios to its nascent digital distribution service, and enable developers to reach Origin’s audience of more than 12 million registered users worldwide with their crowdfunded games. The crowdfunding model for games — financing a project with donations …

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Top iPad game apps: Bejeweled HD leads paid charts in debut week

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:33:00 +0000

[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Bejeweled HD, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II and Feed Me Oil currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Bejeweled HD (PopCap, $3.99) 2. Angry Birds Space HD (Rovio, $2.99) 3. Fruit Ninja HD (Halfbrick, $0.99) 4. Where’s My Water? (Disney, $0.99) 5. Draw …

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38 Studios makes state payment, plans 2013 release for MMO

dblaze — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:49:00 +0000

Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios made its first payment for the $49 million loan it received from the state of Rhode Island, and will seek private funding to continue operations. The developer’s financial difficulties came under increased scrutiny this week after it came to light that 38 Studios failed to make its first scheduled $1.125 million loan repayment, and could not pay its nearly 400 full-time employees. Seeking to protect taxpayer money that went …

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