Posted March 11th, 2010 by serfertsueday
Alex Alvarez is one of those people who obsessively played games and constantly doodled in a sketchbook as a kid. He studied art, but with no one career-oriented channel for that creativity, he didn’t find himself making a living as an artist until he stumbled into a job working on comic books. A few years later, he was explaining software to movie studios and eventually opened The Gnomon Workshop , which provides training to artists who are interested in the entertainment industry
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Interview: Alex Alvarez of The Gnomon Workshop
Posted March 11th, 2010 by Chaignaffitte
In early 2009, Centerscore co-founder Oliver Miao was assigned an extremely daunting task. His studio had recently been acquired by EA Mobile, and his higher-ups had requested an iPhone version of the studio’s successful teen-dating sim series, Surviving High School . The difficulty didn’t come in developing the title, but rather, in monetizing it.
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GDC: Surviving High School creator talks clever, profitable microtransactions
Posted March 11th, 2010 by abiffureaup
We have no doubt you’ve been counting the days (likely via tick marks on the wall), waiting for more information on Zootfly/SouthPeak Games’ Prison Break , so you’ll be glad to hear that the game finally got a solid release date (March 30) and a price ($49.99 on 360/PS3, $39.99 on PC) today from its publisher.
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Prison Break escaping March 30; new screens released
Posted March 11th, 2010 by BWChristopher
Massively multiplayer online game players in the States allegedly spent $3.8 billion last year, according to the Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report by Gamesindustry.com and TNS. The report claims that the MMO market in the US has reached 46 million users, with 21 million paying for online games. The rest play without spending a dime (think “freemium”)
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Study: America spent $3.8 billion on MMOs in 2009
Posted March 11th, 2010 by Awassytit
click to enlarge It’s impossible to avoid comparisons between EA’s upcoming Medal of Honor reboot and Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare series …
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Impressions: Medal of Honor
Posted March 11th, 2010 by ImputtAppeast
[ Hardcore Gaming 101 ] You may not remember this, but in the days before Magna Cum Laude , Leisure Suit Larry games were adventure games. And funny
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Al Lowe reveals the ‘real’ Leisure Suit Larry 8 plot
Posted March 11th, 2010 by HipsBigoNig
Click image to fetch some more screens If you think our last batch of screens depicted some ugly creatures from Namco Bandai’s upcoming Clash of the Titans , then we guess this latest round of shots are par for the course. Featuring several screens of the multi-headed nasty you see above, our gallery below is a veritable playground of potential nightmare inducers. This beast is like a smaller, more nimble version of Cerberus from Devil May Cry 3
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Clash of the Titans screens highlight multi-headed beasts
