Talking to Gamasutra, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has been discussing the problems of making universally popular video game IP, noting that “forcibly making” a game to work worldwide and “degrading the quality” isn’t worth doing. In the course of…

Sales of Nintendo’s feature-laden DSi handheld declined 40 percent during the week ended June 7 to 38,783, still capturing the top spot, according to Media Create. The DSi performed particularly strong the week prior, making for a tough comparison, when…

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 June 11th, 2009,…

Gamasutra’s education-focused sister site has posted its latest biweekly Game Design Challenge, which this time asks readers to come up with a fun and engrossing communication system for MMOs. The latest challenge looks at the idea of communication in MMO…

Noted developer id Software and partner Escalation Studios are wrapping up work on Doom Resurrection, a new iPhone game, and id’s John Carmack told Gamasutra he believes Apple’s mobile system is currently “the best platform for a small team.” Due…