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Xbox Live Indie Studios Can Now Pick Their Publishing Dates
The Xbox Live Indie Games channel just put through a key change that should help publishers with marketing efforts for their games. Now, once a title has passed peer review, the developer may pick the date it publishes to the service. What this means for consumers is that collaborative events such as the Indie Games…
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Oddworld Creator: “EA Sabotaged Stranger’s Wrath“
Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning accused EA of “Sabotaging” his studio’s game, Stranger’s Wrath, in a conversation with Eurogamer. Lanning says that the publisher, by not marketing the game properly, condemned it to failure. “It was sabotaged. When you see a big game coming out, just ask what the marketing budget is. If you decide as…
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Which One Is Worse?
At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death: Which is worse? Let’s leave aside the data breach, though it is one of the largest in history, and is the feature of this disaster that…
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Should Video Game Retailers Screen Their Employees for Fanboyism?
Should video game store employees be allowed to let their personal preferences influence which products they suggest? That’s the question commenter Uncle Jesse asks in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Fanboys are everywhere, but do some of you who work at retail shops and try to influence your customers? Just because you love something, doesn’t…
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The Smithsonian Has Picked the Games of Its Art of Video Games Exhibit
The Smithsonian American Art Museum revealed the winners of its public vote to decide what games will be featured in their exhibit, The Art of Video Games, today. The exhibit creates a visual history of the evolution of gaming from its humble beginnings through the present. The vote, which took place between February and April,…
By Mike Epstein
