Microsoft also announces new flight simulator title and cross-platform Live functionality for PC Fable III.
Microsoft unveiled two new Games For Windows Live enabled titles at Gamescom 2010, Age Of Empires Online and Flight. The company also confirmed that the previously announced Fable III for PC will include Live functionality.
YoYo Games has released a version of its powerful game development tool for Mac OS X.
The popular game development program, which allows users without programming expertise to develop their own software, has until now been only been available on PC. "We're proud to announce the launch of Game Maker for Mac," announced YoYo Games on the company's blog, "...it has taken a long time to reach this stage."
Microsoft's device scheduled for November 10 release in Europe. Company will also show new Kinect content at Gamescom 2010.
Microsoft reveals the launch games for its new phone at Gamescom 2010.
Microsoft unveiled the first wave of Xbox LIVE games for its Windows Phone 7 device at Gamescom 2010 today. The titles will launch with the device this christmas, and include projects from Gameloft, Konami, Namco Bandai, PopCap and THQ.
Google's gaming evangelist, Mark DeLoura, reveals the web giant is also working on other gaming projects at GDC Europe.
Mark DeLoura, who joined Google in April, was courting developers for the upcoming launch of the Google Chrome Web Store at GDC Europe, outlining the features that will be live for launch late this year, most probably in October.
$820 million Russian games market to enjoy governmental support, including tax breaks to tempt international game companies.
According to its website, Channel 4's Education initiative aims to create "innovative cross-platform projects that encourage a two-way participation and offer the chance to stimulate conversation around learning experiences, rather than to simply dictate learning."
At GDC Europe today, Ubisoft creative director Jason VandenBerghe gave an enthusiastic presentation on the promise and limitations of motion control, asserting that it must become standard and multiplatform in order to make sales worthwhile.
Quantic Dream's David Cage gave a frank, detailed and typically forthright Heavy Rain postmortem at GDC Europe today, speaking with humour about the unique challenges involved in its production and his relationship with marketing and censorship. Covering the process of making the game from inception to post-release reception, he sent the audience away with two main ideas: ignore the rules, and don't listen to too much advice.
Julian Gollop has revealed that he is working on a turn-based strategy title for Nintendo's new handheld.
Julian Gollop, the creator of the X-Com series and subsequent spiritual follow up Laser Squad Nemesis, has revealed that he is working on a 3DS project.
The InstantAction CEO says that by selling used software, companies like GameStop and Walmart are stealing from publishers.
InstantAction CEO Louis Castle has accused retailers like GameStop (which recently acquired social gaming site Kongregate) and Walmart of thievery, citing their promotion of second-hand stock using publisher-provided display stands.
A Guitar Hero-like music game on Facebook: not an unfamiliar idea, but a big one. And until now, an idea that hasn't been addressed on quite the same scale as Facebook's 500 million-strong userbase, let alone the countless millions of songs these people listen to and own.
With Fumito Ueda and Hideo Kojima citing his work as an influence, Eric Chahi has an enviable pedigree. He is best known for the 1991 Amiga platformer Another World, a game which featured no HUD and very little dialogue, instead framing its story with cutscenes, rotoscoped character animation and pacing more evocative of cinema than games up until that point. After the exhausting six year development process of his following project (1998 PlayStation release Heart Of Darkness), however, he decided to take a break from making games.
The developer behind the DS versions of Toy Story 3 and GoldenEye 007 forced to make redundancies due to "momentary reduced demand".
n-Space has told Kotaku that it has cut 25 per cent of its staff due to "momentary reduced demand". The Orlando-based developer, which specialises in handheld ports of console franchises, employed around 100 staff members prior to the announcement.
Former MySpace CEO and Facebook executive Owen Van Natta joins the FarmVille developer.
Zynga, the developer behind FarmVille, has appointed Owen Van Natta as its new executive vice president of business operations. Van Natta brings a great deal of social networking experience from his previous two roles as CEO of MySpace and an executive at Facebook before that.
Back in my journalist days, it was interesting to see which industry figures would complain about used game sales. A game producer I’ve become friends with is not only virulently opposed to the practice, he also believes that it’s the ultimate betrayal for retailers like GameStop to take marketing dollars from publishers with one hand while steering consumers towards used games with the other.
