Deus Ex and Disney Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector opened PAX Prime in Seattle, an empowering Gamasutra-attended keynote today, with a call for gamers to look beyond the celebration of geekdom so that the industry as a whole can move toward the mainstream. After years of facing insecurity and rejection while striving for mainstream acceptance, Spector suggested that game culture has finally re
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PAX Prime 2010: Warren Spector on Game Culture in the Mainstream
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Feature: Better Game Development Through Google Docs?
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In Gamasutra's latest feature, hardened design doc veteran Chris Oltyan takes a look at how Google's suite of cloud-based productivity tools can make inroads into solving a lot of collaborative problems. Though Oltyan writes he was initially impressed with a design doc versioning solution he'd worked with before: "it was probably the best document system I've ever been a part of" -- he notes that
In-Depth: What The (Game) Papers Say - August 2010, Pt.2
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['Game Mag Weaseling' is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early '80s to the current day. This time -- an analytical look at the latest video game magazines released in the last couple of weeks.] Interesting things are afoot in the magazine world -- John Davison leaving GamePro after less than a year, for example -- but f
Game Connection Debuts Details For November Event In Lyon
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Game Connection Europe, an acquisition-oriented game industry trade show, has announced four new featured events for this year's gathering, with a focus on building relationships between members of the industry, investors, game companies and more. The first of the new events, called Game Connection Selected Projects, will allow twenty nominated companies to show their products to key representati
FTC Announces Settlement With Reverb For Fraudulent iPhone Game Reviews
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Public relations agency Reverb Communications will settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its employees engaged in false advertising by posing as consumers and writing game reviews on behalf of its clients on Apple's iTunes store. The terms of the settlement require Reverb Communications and owner Tracie Snitker to remove any reviews and comments left that portray the employees as regu
Playboy Forming Game Label, Partners With Bigpoint For PoisonVille
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Adult entertainment company Playboy Enterprises revealed plans to launch a video game label by the end of the year, as well as a partnership with Bigpoint for the release of free-to-play MMO Poisonville. Playboy hasn't disclosed a name for the planned label, or how much of its staff/cash it's putting behind the venture, but the firm did describe the backing as "significant". It also intends to ta
THQ: Buying Preowned 'Cheats' Game Makers
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In a recent interview with UK consumer news site C& VG, THQ creative director for wrestling titles Cory Ledesma spoke out against the sales of used games, calling it "cheating" the developer. THQ recently confirmed that the upcoming wrestling title Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 will come with a single use code printed on the back of the manual which will unlock the game's online features and provide
If you’re a fan of the military strategy game Risk, then you definitely might be interested in this: on October 13th, Bonhams Auction House in London will be selling off an “extremely rare” copy of The Game of War, a complex military board game dating from 1890. Unlike Risk, which is played for amusement and to shed excess friends, The Game of War was designed to be played by re
BBC heralds next Doctor Who download game
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Episode three imminent The BBC will post the third in its series of free, downloadable Doctor Who games "soon", the Corporation said today.…
This Week In Video Game Criticism: Women, Games, Parallel Universes
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[We're partnering with game criticism site Critical Distance to present some of the week's most inspiring writing about the art and design of video games from commentators worldwide. This week, Ben Abraham examines several bloggers' discussions of women in games, the deconstruction of level design, thoughts on Limbo, and more.] Since last week's installment, Justin Keverne completed his annotated
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