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While it’s sad 520 people out of work, the most staggering thing to take away from this is that number only represents 18% of their employees. There’s still over 2000 people still working on games like Farmville.
Original Source: http://blog.zynga.com/2013/06/03/ceo-update-4/
In an informal survey by Kotaku, out of 400 replies, roughly half say they won't tolerate an online fee for Xbox One. Anytime anyone ever says they wont tolerate a bad service or will boycott it, I’m reminded of this gem.
Survey: Half of You Won’t Tolerate Any Online Requirement for Xbox OneJust over half of the more than 400 respondents to an informal Kotaku survey about the Xbox One say they will not accept an online requirement for single-player gaming.KotakuThe A.V. Club
Map of Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City, complete with Google’s Street View.
GRAND THEFT AUTO IV - Map: Liberty CityMap: Liberty City
In 1983, Atari loaded an estimated 13 dump trucks for of broken hardware, including games (like E.T), in a landfill in New Mexico. Twenty years later, a game developer hoping to make a documentary about it has been given the okay to have the site excavated.
As we discontinue Online Pass for our new EA titles, we are also in the process of eliminating it from all our existing EA titles as well. We heard the feedback from players and decided to do away with Online Pass altogether.
For those unfamiliar, most EA games shipped with a separate serial that was required to play games online. If a game was bought used, one would have to also buy an Online Pass from EA to access online play.
EA Online Pass Content Now Free - IGNAlong with no longer us
Treating your customers as humans is good business. So many publishers are too busy trying to stop piracy that concept is often overlooked.
Good Old Games: GOG.com And The DRM-Free RevolutionGOG.com managing director Guillaume Rambourg says DRM betrays trust between game makers and their consumer base.ForbesErik Kain
Blizzard’s brand new massive multiplayer game, “Project Titan” was rumored to be unveiled sometime next year, but it looks like that’s no longer the case.
Report: Blizzard to overhaul “Project Titan,” launch it in 2016 at the earliestThe vaguely described MMO-in-development has been pushed out to the horizon again.Ars TechnicaMegan Geuss
Sony has mandated Vita Remote Play for all upcoming PS4 games – except those that require the use of its bundled stereoscopic camera, the PS4 Eye.
And later confirmed via twitter:
“Yes, it’s true unless the game requires specific hardware like the camera, It will be great to play PS4 games on PS Vita.”
PS4 developer: Sony mandates Vita Remote Play for all gamesEurogamer.netRichard Leadbetter
May the fungus be among us
Its hard to believe it’s already been 20 years since the Super Mario Brothers movie. Nevertheless, it’s always fun hearing the horror stories that came creating the film. Rumor has it, to this very day it’s still the reason Nintendo refuses to make another game inspired movie.
Super Mario Bros. The Movie ArchiveFilm archaeologists archiving and advocating for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. filmNews/Update Archive
Looks pretty. Too bad it’s nothing like the game.
I honestly don’t know what to make of this game. I mean, I love it. But it's crazy this is being made.
Divekick adds Seth ‘S-Kill’ Killian to roster as its final bossSeth "S-Kill" Killian, fighting game expert, former special advisor at Capcom and now producer at Sony Santa Monica Studio, has joined the increasingly bizarre cast of parody fighting game Divekick....PolygonMichael McWhertor
PlayerScale, a cross-platform game infrastructure startup that provides tools for games played by 150 million users on platforms such as iOS and Android, announced the acquisition on its site today. And — unlike recent Yahoo acquisitions like Astrid – CEO Jesper Jensen said the company would continue to operate as it has, supporting over 2,600 developers and 4,000 games.
Their sudden push into mobile gaming is rather intriguing. I think we’ll see a lot more games related acquisitions by Yaho