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Former Diablo III director Jay Wilson has admitted that both the real-money and in-game gold Auction Houses really hurt the game.” Wilson detailed the stark difference between Blizzard’s original assumptions during development and the eventual reality of the situation, during a GDC talk (via Joystiq) this week in San Francisco. …
Read More »Wii U Miiverse smartphone integration expected by May
Nintendo’s Miiverse web and smartphone app for Wii U is inching closer to arrival. Polygon reports that Nintendo’s Kiyoshi Mizuki stated the app would be available in either April or May. It will only have basic functionality at first, including posting comments, drawing doodles, and joining game communities. A 3DS …
Read More »YouTube announces new live-streaming video API for game devs
YouTube has announced a new set of application programming interfaces to help developers in the process of live streaming their games. The announcement came in a GDC presentation to developers, The Verge reports. The company trumpeted the benefits of video integration as a means for not just promoting games, but …
Read More »Games The Shop ventures online through eBay
Games The Shop, India’s largest physical game retail chain, now has an online presence. However, rather than setting up its own e-commerce portal, the retailer has chosen to go the eBay Store route. The chain is a subsidiary of E-xpress Interactive, one of India’s largest game distributors, and has ten …
Read More »Ouya hits UK, USA and Canada on June 4th
The Android-based Ouya console launches in the UK on June 4th. Ouya is famous for raising over $6m via Kickstarter last summer, promising cheap and accessible games and a console at a low price. It will be sold by GAME in the UK, and priced 99 (it costs $99 in …
Read More »GDC 13: AppLift pushing 1m users a month to mobile publisher
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Read More »Jade Raymond’s Splinter Sell
It may have sold 22m units across the world, but Ubisoft feels Splinter Cell should be doing even better. And so it’s tasked one of the masterminds behind Assassin’s Creed to lead a revolution for the spy franchise.MCV speaks to Jade Raymond… One of my first jobs in the games …
Read More »EA: DRM is a dead-end strategy, was never discussed in SimCity meetings
The always-on internet requirement of Maxis’ SimCity was never designed as a DRM measure, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has claimed. "DRM is a failed dead-end strategy; it’s not a viable strategy for the gaming business,” the exec told GamesIndustry. So what we tried to do creatively is build an …
Read More »Telltale turns to DC’s Fables series for next episodic release
The fantasy world of DC’s Fables comics series will provide the basis for the next set of episodic games from Telltale. The studio has, as if you needed reminding, recently enjoyed tremendous success with its five-part episodic gaming series based on The Walking Dead IP. Its new series will be …
Read More »DICE dismisses chance of a Wii U Battlefield 4 port
The Frostbite game engine doesn’t support Wii U and studio DICE feel its resources are best employed elsewhere. That’s the cold truth of EA’s decision not to release Battlefield 4 on Nintendo’s Wii U, making it the latest triple-A game to snub the machine. The game is currently confirmed for …
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