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In a notable week for new job postings, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Crystal Dynamics, Sony Online Entertainment 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 across its network of submarket sites, which includes content ...
Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from June 10th, 2010, find Final Fantasy XIII outselling Super Mario Galaxy 2 Stateside after a recent price drop, as Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker tops PSP sales in its debut week. Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy ...
[Writer and game theorist Eric-Jon Rossel Tairne, aka Eric-Jon Waugh is presenting a new column on "the growth and curious development of that relationship between the game world and the player. This installment moves forward in time to look at Atari's classic 1976 title Breakout.] Though Pong, which we covered last time, opened the window to a new world, that world was a void. You had some basic physical rules, and you had a packet ...
Zynga's wildly popular social game FarmVille is making the jump from social networks to iPhone, bringing with it in-app purchases from the game's virtual item marketplace. "FarmVille is our most popular game and we're excited to bring it to the most popular gaming platform in the world," said Zynga CEO Mark Pincus today at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, attended by Gamasutra. The iPhone app will sync up with players' FarmVille farms on ...
Japan's Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association (CESA) says video game piracy for portable consoles like the Nintendo DS and PSP around the world cost the gaming industry at least ¥3.816 trillion ($41.5 billion) between 2004 and 2009. Piracy in Japan alone accounted for ¥954 billion ($10.4 billion) of that amount. In a study conducted with Tokyo University's Baba Lab, CESA checked the download counts for the top 20 Japanese games at what it considers the top ...
In an exciting week for new job postings, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at BioWare Austin, Junction Point Studios 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 across its network of submarket sites, which includes content ...
Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from June 3rd, 2010, find Super Mario Galaxy 2 maintaining its multiplatform lead in North America and Japan, while Red Dead Redemption stays on top in the UK. Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales ...
Take-Two and Rockstar's open world western Red Dead Redemption led video game sales in the UK during its second week on sale, beating out the debut showing of THQ and Yuke's' UFC Undisputed 2010, Chart-Track said Monday. According to the tracking firm's data for the week that ended May 29, the game's Xbox 360 SKU was also the top-selling game on the individual format chart, followed by its PlayStation 3 version. And despite also releasing ...
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