An award winning interactive fiction designer (Everybody Dies, Roofed) movie director, novelist and activist, Jim Munroe opened his segment of a session on nurturing indie communities by explaining the unusual path he took into game development and the realisations that accompanied it.
Social games on sites like Facebook are gaming’s newest success story. But a panel at GDC argued that veteran designers, whose experience dates back to the birth of personal computers, are some of the most qualified people to design them – and they appreciate the challenge, even though hits like Farmville offer little of the depth they’re used to.
Civilization and Spore designer Soren Johnson explores the separation between the rules of a game and the skin that's applied to them, and argues that a game's meaning always lies in the rules.
As social gaming and the virtual goods market continue to explode, Facebook remains its leader. Just what can possibly challenge it?
With the explosion in social gaming that’s occurred over the past couple of years, The State Of Social Gaming, social games specialist Justin Smith’s overview of the social gaming landscape, could do little but recognise Facebook’s dominance over it, with a userbase of 400 million and counting.
Sony has announced it has acquired high definition movies from six major studios for distribution over the PlayStation Network.
20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution will offer HD films for purchase and rental over the console in the US.
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has confirmed that Harmonix is working on Rock Band 3, which is set for a worldwide release “this holiday season”.
The Viacom boss’ revelation came during a talk at the Credit Suisse Group Global Media and Communications Conference this morning. Since then Harmonix staff members have begun tweeting their confirmations of the upcoming release.
An Xbox 360 that served as evidence to impeach a Baltimore Mayor on embezzlement charges in 2008 is now on sale through Ebay.
The US sate’s prosecutor, Robert A. Rohrbaugh, confirmed that the item is indeed disgraced Mayor Sheila Dixon Xbox 360.
"We're hoping to get as much as we can for it," Rohrbaugh said, with the money set to go to a youth charity in the area,