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Date: Sat, 20. September 2008 15:05:27

Over the past several days, the Guardian has posted a five-part interview with Peter Moore, head of EA Sports. Moore was also the president of Sega, and a vice-president at Microsoft, so his experience at the top levels of the gaming industry is extensive. He describes how he came to be employed by Sega, the development of the Dreamcast, and its subsequent flop when confronted with the Playstation 2. He also discusses his involvement with the development of the Xbox franchise, how the integrated hard drive "killed" the original model, and he gives his account of how the Red Ring of Death fiasco affected the company. The series ends with a look at EA Sports' plans for the future, and how they're trying to create a new business model beyond the micro-payments popularized by iTunes, which Moore calls "a rip-off."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Fri, 26. June 2009 15:04:54

Gamasutra is running a few articles about this year's Social Gaming Summit, a conference dedicated to how the increasingly popular social media market is influencing the design of games and how they are played. It's a unique market, in which relatively unknown games can attract millions of players over mere weeks, and where the players themselves often become the distributors. When discussing platform support and compatibility, Sebastian de Halleux, COO of developer Playfish, said, "For us, the next-generation platform is Facebook." However, Facebook's own Gareth Davis thinks the future of gaming will rely heavily on compatibility across many different devices, from conventional consoles to devices like the iPhone. Christian Nutt, the Gamasutra writer who attended the Summit, is optimistic about the possibilities this will open up, but is worried that creativity and fun will get bogged down by traffic analysis, marketing, and micro-transactions. He mentions one company who "spent $2 million developing a game called Guild of Heroes, but never launched it because 'it didn't drive the right metrics.' This makes business sense; these kinds of decisions are made everywhere all of the time. The disquieting thing is that the topics of fun or creativity mdash; or any of the virtues most in the game industry like to inject into their commercial products mdash; were rarely if ever addressed."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/26/0552204/Social-Networks-As-Gaming-Platforms?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/06/26/0552204"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/26/0552204/Social-Networks-As-Gaming-Platforms?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ETfZibSY6ZL3ofIyk5Lix4KO0EE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ETfZibSY6ZL3ofIyk5Lix4KO0EE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ETfZibSY6ZL3ofIyk5Lix4KO0EE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ETfZibSY6ZL3ofIyk5Lix4KO0EE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/nGDNGdWW-fQ" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 18. September 2008 09:11:22

Apple CEO Steve Jobs took a jab at Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS when he called the newest iPod Touch "the best portable device for playing games on." After only two months in operation, Apple's new App Store already offers 700 games for the Touch and iPhone ... but should the gaming giants be worried?

Date: Sun, 11. January 2009 02:08:06

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Date: Wed, 16. July 2008 13:51:37

The AgeHands on with Nintendo's MotionPlus, Wii MusicArs Technica - 1 hour agoBy Ben Kuchera | Published: July 16, 2008 - 08:49AM CT After the Nintendo press conference, I had an appointment to see some of the games that the company had announced, and I was very eager to do so.Wii Music E3 Hands-on Preview ShacknewsNintendo plans 60-instrument "Wii Music" ReutersSwitched - eFluxMedia - Yahoo! Tech - GamePro.comall 289 news articles

Date: Wed, 13. January 2010 19:13:34

Despite the fact that the Nintendo Wii is getting a bit old and crotchety, it will be getting a new feature in the spring. Rumored for quite some time, the Wii will be getting Netflix streaming in the spring.

Date: Thu, 22. January 2009 12:26:19

If you're looking for a sneak peak at the future of video gaming, check out the finalists for the upcoming Independent Games Festival Awards. One of these unusual and inventive games could be the biggest hit of 2009.

Date: Wed, 17. September 2008 14:50:03

For those of you who haven't heard of Valve, it's a gaming company, famous for games such as Half-Life, which really made the company's mark, as well as follow ups such as Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike, and more. And now you might ask, why would Google, monolith of all things Internet, be interesting in a gaming company (and one that doesn't have a web-based MMORPG, for that matter)?

Date: Sun, 15. March 2009 20:57:00

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Date: Fri, 18. December 2009 00:45:43

With all the incredible games that have been released for Microsoft?s Xbox 360 this year, trying to write a ?Best of 2009? list feels an awful lot like trying to stick 20 pounds of sand into a 2-pound sack. Microsoft - Xbox - Video game - Games - List of Xbox 360 games