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OpenFeint CEO And Co-Founder Jason Citron Resigns
image Mobile social gaming network OpenFeint co-founder and CEO Jason Citron has resigned from the company, Gamasutra has learned, with parent company Gree's Naoki Aoyagi stepping in to fill his role.
 
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Interview: Bringing 'Tower Offense' To iPad With Anomaly: Warzone Earth Exclusive
image Just as the tower defense genre seemed to be empty of new ideas, 11 Bit Studios released Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a game that shows "there are a lot of opportunities ahead for the genre," according to the studio.
 
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Analysis: Breaking Down 'Alarming' U.S. Game Retail Contraction
image U.S. physical video game retail saw a an "alarming" decline in August, Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews says -- and the absence of Madden NFL 12 certainly isn't all to blame.
 
 
ESA Head Advocates Games For Education To House Committee
image Entertainment Software Association CEO Michael D. Gallagher testified to a House of Representatives Committee this week to advocate the growing use of video games in the classroom.
 
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Opinion: Simplifying Behavior Tree Logic
image In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Relic's Jesse Cluff explains why you should use behavior trees, and why you might consider them over finite state machines.
 
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GameCareerGuide: Single-Button Challenge Ends As Kids Challenge Begins
 
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Grand Theft Auto IV Passes 22M Shipped, Franchise Above 114M
image Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has revealed updated sales numbers for many of the publisher's key games and franchises, including over 22 million lifetime shipments for Grand Theft Auto IV.
 
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Tecmo Koei Announces Dead Or Alive 5 For 2012
image Team Ninja will continue its well-known fighting game franchise next year with Dead or Alive 5 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, coming some six years after the previous entry in the series.
 
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PayPal to Power Real Money Transactions In Diablo III Auction House
image Blizzard and PayPal have announced that PayPal will serve as the payment-service intermediary allowing players to spend and earn real money in the much-discussed auction house in the upcoming Diablo III.
 
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Top-Grossing Android Games: Restaurant Story Sees Revenue Jump
 
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Top-Grossing iOS Games: Machinarium, Zynga Poker Head App Store Charts
 
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BioWare, Zynga, EA, Playdom Vets Launch Action-Focused Freemium Startup
image Game industry veterans from BioWare, Electronic Arts, Zynga and Playdom have teamed up to create Rumble, a company focused on merging fast-paced action games with the casual free-to-play PC market.
 
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Analysis: Is Syndicate A Broad Franchise?
image In this opinion piece, UK-based game designer Tadhg Kelly analyzes "broad" and "narrow" video game franchises to see which category Electronic Arts' FPS reboot of classic tactical game Syndicate falls into.
 
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Feature: Avoiding 'Too Many Cooks' And Other Game Design Lessons
image In a new Gamasutra feature, veteran developer Henrik Markarian warns studios not to let too many people contribute to a game's core design, saying too many cooks can spoil the game design broth.
 
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Interview: Molleindustria On Phone Story's 'Objectionable' Message Exclusive
image Gamasutra talks to Molleindustria about Phone Story, the hardware industry critique that's been pulled from the App Store -- and about the culture of complacency that surrounds mobile game development.
 
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Neal Stephenson To Keynote GDC Online's Game Narrative Summit
image GDC Online 2011 organizers have announced that renowned writer Neal Stephenson will keynote the October show's Game Narrative Summit, where he will take part in an on-stage Q&A; with game journalist Geoff Keighley.
 
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Analysis: Sony's PS Vita Launch Approach Shows Social Savvy
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'Banned' iPhone Title Phone Story Released For Android
 
 
PlayStation 3 Sells 51.8M Total Units Worldwide, PSP 71.4M Units
image At a Gamasutra-attended conference in Tokyo today, Sony revealed overall worldwide sales figures for both its PlayStation 3 console and PSP handheld, with 51.8 million PS3s and 71.4 million PSPs sold.
 
 
NaturalMotion Transitions To Free-To-Play Model With My Horse
image Despite success selling games such as Backbreaker Football to iOS gamers directly, NaturalMotion Games is making the leap to the free-to-play model with the upcoming My Horse.
 
 
Suda's Grasshopper Reveals New Casual, Kinect Games
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The Changing Indie Landscape: Steam Beats Xbox?
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Random Thoughts on Randomization in Game Design.
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BERJAYA Randomization has been a useful mechanic for providing replay-ability and today, I'm going to...
 
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The Gaming Revolution Will Be.. Read?
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BERJAYA Your gamers want books, and thanks to the e-book revolution, you can afford to sell them books, and...
 
 
2011 - A Game Industry Retrospective
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BERJAYA Thoughts on where I think the video game industry is going well (and not so well) in 2011
 
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Reality Management Important for Game Designers
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BERJAYA Management requires people to recognize what reality is, not what they would like reality to be or...
 
 
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BERJAYA Explaining the five basic elements of comedy. The fifth element of comedy isn�t even funny.
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