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“Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games”

Three seasoned iPhone developers shared the secrets of their success with other would-be indie developers eying the iPhone as an indie platform. The catch? There are no secrets. Adam Saltsman, co-creator of Wurdle, and the duo behind Fieldrunners — Sergei Gourski and Jamie Goch — each took a little time to share how their respective…

Microsoft Pretties Up Games For Windows LIVE

Microsoft is adding several new features to their Games for Windows LIVE service in order to make it more attractive to gamers and publishers and less attractive to pirates. Microsoft first attacks PC game piracy with the introduction of zero-day piracy protection and server-side authentication, requiring that consumers verify their products before participating in online…

Tomorrow, I Watch BOTH Kids

To: Fahey From: Bashcraft RE: Tell The Guards To Stop Aiming At Me AHOY DEAREST FAHEY! Wife has a pressing matter she must attend to tomorrow, leaving me in charge of watching the kids and working. Usually we split up the watching the kids part so I can do what I need to do and…

Wolfenstein Released For iPhone, Doom Coming As Well [UPDATE]

You can now get Wolfenstein on the iPhone. Not the Wolfenstein RPG, not a cheap Wolfenstein knock-off, the real deal, programmed and ported over by id’s own John Carmack. And best of all, it’s free. Yes, seeing as he worked on it as a pet project, Carmack has decided to release the game as a…

Keep Your Hadoukens Crisp & Fresh With Tupperware Arcade Sticks

Arcade sticks are a necessity for proper fighting action on a console, but you know what? Arcade sticks are expensive. Now Tupperware, it’s a lot easier to get your hands on some Tupperware. And once you’ve got hold of some, get hold of some arcade stick components (OK, that last bit’s probably a bit harder)…

Tim Schafer: The Game

Quick history lesson! Tim Schafer is making Brutal Legend. He also did Psychonauts. And, before that, Monkey Island. But this isn’t a game by Tim Schafer. It’s a game about Tim Schafer. Specifically, it’s about Schafer’s role as host of the Game Developers Choice awards, one of the industry’s night of nights. Poignantly, the 2009…

British Sales Charts: Zombies Eat Madworld

Resident Evil 5 broke some records last week. This week, it’s breaking hearts, as it hangs onto the top two spots in the charts at the expense of some fresher titles. Like Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS, which despite being a GTA game on the DS could only manage a debut in…

Apple Putting The Squeeze On iPhone Developers [Updated]

The iPhone is a slick looking machine. More and more developers are starting to make iPhone games, and the platform could give the PSP and the DS a run for its money. But, according to insiders, the phone itself might be developer friendly, but Apple is not. Apple is forcing a rather nasty contractual amendment…

Need For Speed: Shift Is The Ghost Of Project Gotham Racing

With developers Bizarre Creations now at Activision, the Project Gotham Racing series is dead in the water. But fans of the dormant franchise may want to take a look at Need for Speed: Shift. I know, I know. It feels as strange to type that as it must be for you to read it. But…

The Favorite Racing Stripe Is…

…a sad dog with masking tape by our count. The winner will receive a copy of Race Pro. Congrats and much love to all who entered. Speedydog owner, please shoot us an email at kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.

What Do Developers Think Will Have The Biggest Impact On The Future Of Gaming?

It’s a curly question. And an important one. And one that’s been asked, with VentureBeat polling the industry to find out just what it thinks will be kind of a big deal in the future. The answer? An overwhelming 66% of respondents to the survey’s questions (which looks to be many of the industry’s big…

Aliens: Colonial Marines Teased

SEGA confirmed that its Gearbox-developed Aliens: Colonial Marines is still alive and kicking. As of January, the game was slated for the April-June window. Last November, rumors swirled that Gearbox had dropped Aliens: Colonial Marines — which Gearbox president Randy Pitchford dismissed. In the late April issue of UK game magazine Powerstation, there’s a teaser…

Over Two Million DSi Consoles Sold In Japan

The Nintendo DSi, Nintendo’s latest DS iteration, has sold 2 million units in Japan. Earlier this month, three new DSi colors went on sale in The Land of the Rising Sun. The portable console went on sale on November 1, and as of December last year, the console had sold 1.28 million units in Japan.…

Dante’s Inferno (The Movie) Has A Writer

Dante’s Inferno was a poem. Now it’s not only a game, but a movie as well, with the movie based not on the poem, but on the game based on the poem. Sigh. Anyway, this movie now has a writer. And that writer is…Mr. Dan Harris. Who aside from writing comics for both Marvel &…

Sony Making PS3 Development Better And Cheaper

The PS3 has been out for a couple years now. Developers are getting a better handle on how to make PS3 games. Sony has announced that developing for the system is getting easier. Sony Computer Entertainment introduced new developer tools this March in North America and Europe/PAL territories at US $2,000 and €1,700 respectively, and…

See OnLive In Action

.html Sure, there are some serious question marks over things like latency, but come on. It’d be a mean, mean person who wasn’t even a little excited by OnLive’s potential to change gaming. Cloud computing, transcending the need for a particular console? Playable on your TV, your PC, or even your Mac? It’s ground-breaking stuff.…

Finish Chris Redfield

Maximum Risky is equal opportunity — as long as it’s risky, it’s fair game. We’ve already posted posted Resident Evil 5‘s sexy secret Sheva costume. It’s only right and just that we bring you this. Over at NSFW site Humplex, there’s a Resident Evil 5 flash game that is short on the zombies and long…

OnLive Makes PC Upgrades Extinct, Lets You Play Crysis On Your TV

You may never buy a new video card ever again. Actually, the only PC gaming hardware you might ever need will cost you less than a Wii, should OnLive’s potential live up to its promise. OnLive is a new video games on demand service that may just change the way you play PC games. The…

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Looks Light On Bloody Violence

The trailer for Xbox 360 title Ninja Gaiden II was a pure gore porn, complete with bloody slicing and dicing. The trailer of the PS3 reworking Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 seems, well, different. For starters, the action scenes don’t look like a butcher shop. In place of decapitation, the trailer shows innocuous red slashes and…

Rolling Stone’s “Agents Of Change” List Full Of Game Developers

Rolling Stone magazine have taken a little side-trip away from rock n’ roll, and done a more Time magazine-like list of the “100 People Who Are Changing America”. Four (well, five) are developers. First up is Will Wright, at #84. Sure, The Sims and Spore are big sellers, but they’re seen by Rolling Stone as…