Screen Yorkshire has announced a new £15 million content fund, which it will invest in games, film, TV and digital creative works produced in the region. Half of the Yorkshire Content Fund comes from the European Regional Development Fund, set up by the European Commission to stimulate regional economic development. The remainder will be provided by private sector investors.
http://www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/funding
Screen Yorkshire has announced a new £15 million content fund, which it will invest in games, film, TV and digital creative works produced in the region.
Half of the Yorkshire Content Fund comes from the European Regional Development Fund, set up by the European Commission to stimulate regional economic development. The remainder will be provided by private sector investors.
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Sony's online service PlayStation Network will this week be renamed Sony Entertainment Network, as the company begins to consolidate all its online operations under one name. The switch, which Sony says is "a change in name only" which will make it "clearer and easier" for users to access all Sony services with a single account, takes place tomorrow
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=461878
Sony's online service PlayStation Network will this week be renamed Sony Entertainment Network, as the company begins to consolidate all its online operations under one name.
The switch, which Sony says is "a change in name only" which will make it "clearer and easier" for users to access all Sony services with a single account, takes place tomorrow.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the new UK number one, the Square Enix RPG ending FIFA 12's five-week dominance of the all-formats software chart. In a busy week for new releases, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection enters the chart at number two, with Namco Bandai's Soul Calibur V, fittingly, making its debut at number five.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the new UK number one, the Square Enix RPG ending FIFA 12's five-week dominance of the all-formats software chart.
In a busy week for new releases, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection enters the chart at number two, with Namco Bandai's Soul Calibur V, fittingly, making its debut at number five. FIFA 12 slips to fourth, while Battlefield 3 climbs two places to number three.
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Brian Howe imagines what Infocom’s classic text-based adventure Zork might be like had it been released today.
Outside of Heavily Armed Compound. You are standing in a smouldering field of wreckage before a heavily armed compound. To the east, south, north, and west, invisible walls have sprung up. A tree with low branches stands nearby. There
is a leaflet resting on the ground.
>read leaflet
“Welcome to ZORKWAR, a text-based secondperson adventure game of running, hiding, shooting, and further running.”
>climb tree
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Only 13,000 of the 30,000 gamers who signed up fulfilled their pledge to spend the weekend playing Half-Life 2 in protest at Valve's lack of communication about Half-Life 3. Kotaku reports that, while the number of those playing Valve's classic FPS fell far short of what was expected, it still exceeded the game's normal Steam activity by 10,000 players.
http://kotaku.com/5882437/so-howd-that-half+life-2-protest-go
Only 13,000 of the 30,000 gamers who signed up fulfilled a pledge to spend the weekend playing Half-Life 2 in protest at Valve's lack of communication about Half-Life 3.
Kotaku reports that, while the number of those playing Valve's classic FPS fell far short of what was expected, it still exceeded the game's normal Steam activity by 10,000 players.
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THQ is to publish games developed by Innovative Leisure, a mobile game startup founded by Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley. Blackley revealed his new company last week in an interview with VentureBeat. He described the iPhone as "the new arcade," and the 99¢ pricepoint as "the new quarter." With that in mind, he has assembled a team of industry veterans who were behind much of Atari's arcade output in the 70s and 80s.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/02/seamus-blackley-launches-innovative-leisure-mobile-game-startup-with-atari-arcade-veterans-exclusive/
THQ has announced a "strategic agreement" with Innovative Leisure, a mobile game startup founded by Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley.
Blackley revealed his new company last week in an interview with VentureBeat. He described the iPhone as "the new arcade," and the 99¢ pricepoint as "the new quarter." With that in mind, he has assembled a team of industry veterans who were behind much of Atari's arcade output in the 70s and 80s.
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Stephen "StepTo" Toulouse has resigned from his position as Xbox Live director of policy and enforcement, and will leave Microsoft on February 15. Toulouse, who has been with the company for 18 years and admits to not knowing what he'll do next, revealed the news on his personal blog.
http://www.stepto.com/2012/02/in-which-i-leave-microsoft/
Stephen "StepTo" Toulouse has resigned from his position as Xbox Live director of policy and enforcement, and will leave Microsoft on February 15.
Toulouse, who has been with the company for 18 years and admits to not knowing what he'll do next, revealed the news on his personal blog.
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Pachinko kept Sega Sammy in profit during the final nine months of 2011, despite declines in the company's videogame and arcade businesses. Total net sales for the nine months ending December 31 came to ¥311.6 billion (£2.58 billion). Net income, or profit, was ¥34.4 billion (£285.5 million), a decline of 6.6 per cent year on year.
Pachinko kept Sega Sammy in profit during the final nine months of 2011, despite declines in the company's videogame and arcade businesses.
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Tail Drift has been selected as the winner of Unity's Flash In A Flash Creation Contest, which tasked entrants with porting Unity-authored games to Adobe Flash. Developer Cameron Owen has won $20,000 for his arcade racer, which was selected ahead of more than 500 fellow entrants.
Tail Drift has been selected as the winner of Unity's Flash In A Flash Creation Contest, which tasked entrants with porting Unity-authored games to Adobe Flash.
Developer Cameron Owen has won $20,000 for his flight-based arcade racer, which was selected ahead of more than 500 fellow entrants.
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Chris Donlan plays an inspiringly fresh tactical game in which nuclear war meets Tetris.
I read about Josh Sutphin's strange tactical war game in the back pages of this month's PC Gamer, where it was described as deadly Tetris. That was enough to get me on board. Now I've played it, I can think of several other equally appropriate descriptions, as well: Machiavellian tennis, say, or Advance Wars for nasty people.
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