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Saling The World: Ocarina of Time 3D Tops Worldwide Charts
Jun 24 2011, 8:05 AM EDT (view original item)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 23rd, 2011, find The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D leading cross-platform sales in the U.S. and Japan, as Zumba Fitness keeps...
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News: THQ announces uDraw for PS3/360
May 3 2011, 5:15 PM EDT (view original item)Wii tablet is a hit, goes multiplatform. uDraw, the formerly Wii-exclusive tablet peripheral, is heading to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, publisher THQ has announced. It today revealed that the add-on shipped 1.7 million units in the 2011 fiscal year, justifying expanding the brand onto HD consoles. "Today, I am pleased to announce that we plan to bring exclusively designed uDraw GameTablets to...
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Analysis: The Era Of Player Creativity
May 2 2011, 11:59 AM EDT (view original item)[Gamasutra columnist Connor Cleary applauds the rise to prominence of games that emphasize player creativity, points out some of the more notable examples, and mentions the benefits of player-created content capabilities.] I talk a lot about the desirability of immersion in gaming - about losing yourself entirely in a game. But there is another side of gaming which takes almost the opposite ...
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Interview: 5th Cell's Hybrid, Puppies And 'Marketable Innovation'
Apr 28 2011, 8:29 AM EDT (view original item)"Innovation" is often tied to niche video games -- those weird gems that are flashes or even full-blown blazes of interactive entertainment ingenuity. And it's true, most innovation comes from the smaller, more agile developers that reside happily on the commercial and creative fringe. They can take risks without fear that their company's stock will dip half a percent, or that a...
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New and Cool Gear: 'Super Scribblenauts,' 'Castlevania: Lord of Shadow' and Aluratek Libre
Apr 11 2011, 12:00 AM EDT (view original item)Four words: winged invincible pink thong. Imagination gets a bit more descriptive and exponentially goofier in the latest version of 5th Cell's creative gaming masterpiece "Super Scribblenauts" for the Nintendo DS.
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ENT: Let your inner Van Gogh go wild with uDraw
Mar 19 2011, 8:48 PM EDT (view original item)Easter is fast approaching and while I may not entirely agree with it, many families tend to treat the holiday as some sort of mini-Christmas these days. And as usual, video games remain a key gift idea for anyone age six or older.[...]
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GeekDad Challenge Of The Week Winner: Calling All Writers, Part Two
Mar 19 2011, 7:15 AM EDT (view original item)Hi everyone. Dave Banks is off on a cool assignment and has limited access to the intertubes. So I’m filling in for this weeks challenge winner announcement. Challenge: You’re going to need some help with this one. This is a parent-kid challenge, with a heavy emphasis on the younger portion of the collaboration. Grab [...]
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'Hybrid' Is The Shooter You Won't Know How To Play
Mar 8 2011, 1:52 PM EST (view original item)Part of my job involves playing a lot of different kinds of video games. Because of this, it usually doesn't take me longer than a minute or so to pick up the controls of a game. This is especially the case with action games like shooters, were universally-agreed-upon control schemes are the norm. As it [...]
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Departing Salute - The Best of DS #25: The World Ends With You
Feb 25 2011, 12:33 PM EST (view original item)In 25 days today, Nintendo launches its 3DS handheld system in Japan, to be followed a month later by the European and American versions. While the arrival of 3DS doesn't mean its predecessor is completely dead, we're definitely moving into the DS's latter days. That makes now the perfect occasion to catch on up all the DS games you've missed. In the days leading up to 3DS's...
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DICE 2011: How 5th Cell Generates Million-Selling Original IP
Feb 11 2011, 11:19 AM EST (view original item)Offbeat developer 5th Cell has seen 3.5 million in lifetime sales for the Drawn to Life series and another 2.5 million for the Scribblenauts series, each of which took roughly a year to develop and only a few dozen team members to create. Yet in a recent D.I.C.E. Summit talk, company co-founders Jeremiah Slaczka and Joseph Tringali said it wasn't merely luck that drove these success stories,...
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News: Scribblenauts lifetime sales revealed
Feb 11 2011, 3:26 AM EST (view original item)Words escape us. Cute word-based puzzle game series Scribblenauts has sold 2.5 million copies to date. That's the combined might of DS games Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts. During the DICE 2011 summit at Las Vegas developer 5th Cell revealed its other franchise, Drawn to Life, has shifted 3.5 million units (thanks Joystiq). Read more...
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5th Cell reveals sales for Scribblenauts, Drawn to Life
Feb 10 2011, 8:46 PM EST (view original item)5th Cell's focus on original IP has worked out quite well for the independent developer, selling millions of copies of its innovative titles. During a DICE 2011 presentation on the studio's development strategy, general manager and COO Joseph Tringali shared that it has sold 3.5 million units in the Drawn to Life series and 2.5 million of Scribblenauts games. We'd known previously that...
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News: Hybrid plans "persistent online World War"
Jan 26 2011, 1:42 PM EST (view original item)Scribblenauts dev details "innovative" FPS. Hybrid, the forthcoming online FPS from the studio behind DS hit Scribblenauts, will feature a "persistent online World War" which will continue to rage even while you're not playing. The announcements comes in a new info dump from developer 5th Cell about the Xbox Live Arcade shooter, first revealed late last year. The game...
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Editor's desk competition: This week's winners revealed
Jan 25 2011, 12:11 PM EST (view original item)Five new Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power razors won Posted by Luke Johnson
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GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #214
Jan 20 2011, 12:10 PM EST (view original item)The Game Informer monthly staff page is a forum where we all come together and talk about what's cool right now. We'll get the ball rolling and would love to hear everyone's current interests, dislikes, and favorite games. Andy McNamara Profile E-mail Editor Interests: Cycling, Leopard Trek, The Archers Of Loaf Reunion Show In North Carolina (I Have Much Love For The Archers, Please...
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Heavy Rain Tops Game Trading Site's Most Requested List For 2010
Jan 11 2011, 7:32 PM EST (view original item)Game-trading site Goozex says Heavy Rain was the game most requested by its users in 2010, suggesting interest in the title well beyond those willing to buy the game outright. The story-based PlayStation 3 exclusive sold 200,000 units in its first week on sale and reached a million sales worldwide nearly two months after its late February 2010 release, becoming the 22nd best-selling game for the...
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Saling The World: Wii Fit Plus, Your Shape Climb Domestic Charts
Jan 7 2011, 9:36 AM EST (view original item)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 January 6th, 2011, find Wii Fit Plus and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved making a strong sales impression in the United States, as Monster...
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Red Dead, Call of Duty top GameFly's 2010 charts
Jan 5 2011, 4:02 PM EST (view original item)Blockbuster hits also online rental service's most requested games of the year; Splinter Cell: Conviction, God of War III, Super Mario Galaxy 2 top platform-exclusive titles.
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ESRB ironically rates Bulletstorm 'Mature,' tries to summarize game
Jan 3 2011, 5:13 PM EST (view original item)If you're not sure whether Bulletstorm exists to mock a 15-year-old's view of masculinity, or to celebrate it , the ESRB 's rating summary isn't going to deliver any answers. The ESRB puts on a straight face as it describes Bulletstorm 's inclusion of "Intoxicated Skillshots," references to "sexual acts, venereal diseases, and having sex with one's...
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Best Video Games of 2010
Dec 28 2010, 4:40 AM EST (view original item)We usually do a monthly game article to talk about the games we’re excited for. We’re going to skip December since there aren’t too many big releases this month. Instead...
