Ubisoft today announced a new technology dubbed Scalar—a cloud-based service that will be used by Ubisoft studios that promises to expand the size of game worlds and deepen the possibilities of simulation, among other potential advantages.
Valve’s ambitious Steam Deck is now officially on the market and it’s one of the most interesting, borderline magical, pieces of game hardware available today.
In this episode of GDC Podcast, recorded earlier this year live at GDC Showcase,
Kris Graft and Alissa McAloon talk to Leyla and Soren Johnson, CEO and design
director at Offworld Trading Company and Old World developer Mohawk Games.
The time has come to respectfully lay to rest the name Gamasutra, a title that’s
been around for nearly 25 years and has become known as a leading resource and
reference for game development and industry knowledge.
Valve Software on Thursday revealed that its popular online shooter Team
Fortress 2 is adopting the “free-to-play” business model on PC, and will be
supported solely by virtual item sales.
Leading U.S. specialty video game retailer GameStop on Thursday reported fiscal
2010 sales of $9.47 billion, [UPDATE: 3DS, Kinect, Move all seeing strong
Animal rights group PETA has countered the release of Team Meat’s downloadable
platform game Super Meat Boy with its own parody, Super Tofu Boy , as developer
Edmund McMillen brushes off the criticism.
Electronic Arts confirmed today that it purchased popular mobile publisher
Chillingo for an undisclosed sum. [ UPDATE : EA and Rovio clarify that the
purchase doesn’t include rights to any IP, including Angry Birds .]
Blizzard Entertainment won a judgment worth more than $88 million from a 2009
lawsuit filed against the operator of Scapegaming, which hosted an unauthorized
server running World of Warcraft .
At Comic-Con last week, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono revealed Street Fighter
III: Third Strike Online Edition , an online remake of the 1999 arcade fighting
game that reports say may head to Xbox Live Arcade and PSN.
The UK’s Video Standards Council said the revamped Pan European Game Information
content rating labels will not be put into effect until April 1, 2011, when PEG
Viktor Antonov, the Half-Life 2 art director who is responsible for the look of
the game’s immersive City 17, is at work on a movie, which will spawn a video
game sequel.