As part of a technical talk at GDC's Social Games Summit, Amitt Mahajan, lead developer of Farmville, revealed a number of interesting statistics about the game, including current stats of 32 million players per day. Farmville, a Harvest Moon-like farming social game, is one of Facebook's biggest success stories, earning the small team huge accolades before being purchased by Zynga. The game took
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GDC: Farmville Reaches 32 Million Daily Users
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Q& A: Codemasters Reveals Bodycount, Studio Refocus
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Codemasters has announced Bodycount, a new game under the creative direction of Stuart Black, best known for the Criterion Studios shooter Black -- and which draws inspiration from J.J. Abrams and Lady Gaga. Though Black has been at Codemasters for "two or three years now," he says, he "actually started on a different project, another original IP that's kind of been on the back burner... We start
Your (Brief) Guide To GDC 2010 Live, Full Coverage To Follow
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Looking for a quick guide to some of the best talks at this week's Game Developers Conference, which begins tomorrow in San Francisco? Gamasutra offers up "Your (Brief) Guide to GDC 2010", which lists some of the most exciting talks in both the main conference program and the summits. As the feature notes, "The show's content ranges from talks by storied game developers like Nintendo's Yoshio Sak
Kokoromi Announces Gamma IV Selections For GDC 2010 Showcase
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Montreal game collective Kokoromi has today announced the six games selected for this year's Gamma IV showcase, the 'One Button Games'-themed extended game jam. The chosen entries will make their debut at the Gamma IV party in San Francisco on the evening of Wednesday March 10th, and will then be shown at the Gamma IV Pavilion on the GDC Expo Floor, with this exhibition held in association with t
Study: Vietnam, India Gaming Population To Hit 25 Million By 2014
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A new report from San Jose-based Pearl Research forecast the number of gamers in Vietnam and India to exceed 25 million by 2014, thanks to growing economies and an increasing amount of internet users. Pearl said that in Vietnam, there are over 50 online games on the market, a significant number considering the country's online game market just began gaining traction in 2004, Pearl said. The top o
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of March 5
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In this round-up, Gamasutra highlights some of the notable jobs posted in its industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Sledgehammer Games, Crystal Dynamics and more. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free
Majesco Warned Of Potential Nasdaq Delisting
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Nasdaq isn't COOL with Majesco. The stock exchange has informed the Cooking Mama publisher (stock symbol: COOL) that it has 180 days to bring its share price beyond $1, or it risks being delisted. If Majesco fails to sufficiently increase its stock price by August 30, it will receive further formal notification, at which point it can attempt to appeal the decision. In the last quarter, Majesco ma
Sony Plans Game Demos With Eroding Functionality
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Future game demos released by Sony Computer Entertainment may reduce in functionality as players spend more time with them, coupled with a shareware-like purchasing model. As described by a recently-granted patent reported by Silconera, Sony's planned demo system "implements trigger metrics to erode game play characteristics, such as character, object, event and/or environmental features." That m
Japanese Hardware: PSP Holds Top Slot As Wii Passes PS3
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Sony's standard PlayStation Portable held its number one slot in the Japanese hardware sales charts this week -- but in total, the combined Nintendo DS platform held onto its leadership position. According to data from tracking firm Media Create for the week that ended February 28, 2010, Wii improved by nearly 5,000 units to 36,241 for the week, a week-on-week gain of 13.8 percent -- the biggest
The Psychology Of Games: The Glitcher's Dilemma
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[Psychologist and gamer Jamie Madigan writes for Gamasutra about how social dilemmas work in the world of gaming, and how designers can work to diffuse them before everybody gets glitch happy.] Soon after its release, some players of the online first person shooter Modern Warfare 2 discovered what became known as "the javelin glitch." Someone, somewhere, somehow figured out that through a bizarre
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