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  • 03 April 2013

  • News: Planetside 2 sound gurus share tips for building euphonic battlefields

    Play a frenetic first-person shooter and you're often dead before you ever see where the bullet came from. You have to pay close attention to every detail--the click of a grenade dropping, the scrape of boots on concrete--if you want to succeed. The free-to-play massively multiplayer shooter Planetside 2 is predicated on never-ending firefights, and Sony Online Entertainment's attention to detail didn't go unnoticed--the Hollywood Music in Media awards nominated the Planetside 2 team for best video game score this year.

  • 02 April 2013

  • News: How Microsoft is trying--but failing--to court indie game developers

    At last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, record numbers of industry players converged to showcase their latest titles. In full force were smaller, independent developers, showing off their indie games on a variety of hardware: Mac and Windows laptops, and iOS and Android devices.

  • News: Game developers still not sold on Android

    Though we're constantly buffeted by stories about new Android-powered game consoles and the continued growth of the Google Play Store, the fact still stands: An Android port seems to remain a footnote in development process, an afterthought, a thing that has to be done as opposed to the thing to do. Even today, you'd be hard-pressed to find a game that's exclusive to the Linux-based platform, or a developer willing to profess an undying affection for "Android. People might make Android games, but they don't seem like it.

  • 29 March 2013

  • News: How virtual reality tech will change the future of games

    Thousands of programmers, artists and designers flock to the Game Developer's Conference every year to discuss the state of the games industry. A significant part of that discussion revolves around gaming technology, and the GDC show floor is filled with companies showcasing their latest game-changing hardware.

  • News: Games grow more social, ditch Facebook

    I sat in a corner of the Casual Games Roundtable at the Games Developer Conference, among 30-40 developers, when the ice was broken with the following question: "Who here is targeting mobile with their current game?" Every hand in the room shot up. "Who's targeting Facebook?" Perhaps three or four hands were raised.

  • News: Your smartphone may be your console's best friend

    If you find yourself fiddling with your smartphone or tablet while watching TV, you're not alone: According to an infographic put together by Uberflip earlier this year, 80 percent of Americans use their smartphones while watching TV. What are people doing on their phones when they could be watching Game of Thrones? They're engaging in social media and shopping online. Now game developers are looking to bring a similar experience to future video games and consoles.

  • 28 March 2013

  • News: Free Game Friday: Expect the unexpected

    From unexpected genre mashups to games where everything changes every 10 seconds, this week's free games are about not doing what you expect them to do.

  • News: Sony touts much-improved Playstation 4 controller, Eye camera

    Sony's redesigned Playstation 4 controller isn't just about frilly new features like the touch panel and a Share button. At the Game Developers Conference this week, Sony revealed some under the hood improvements that should be a boon for fans of first-person shooters and competitive multiplayer.

  • News: Surging PC game sales won't wither when new consoles appear, expert says

    Despite sagging PC hardware sales, the market for PC games continues to show strong growth.

  • News: Intel debuts Haswell-related tools at 2013 Game Developers conference

    Intel CPUs have long been popular with PC gamers, but their enthusiasm for the platform has had little to do with the processors' relatively weak integrated-graphics cores. Intel hopes to change that perception with its fourth-generation Core family, code-named Haswell.

  • 27 March 2013

  • News: EA releases 17 minute Battlefield 4 gameplay video

    EA has a released a comprehensive video showcasing the gameplay of its latest war shooter, Battlefield 4.

  • News: AMD provides a sneak peek at its Radeon HD 7990

    AMD took the wraps off a new high-end reference-design videocard at the end of the company's GDC press briefing Tuesday night: The dual-GPU Radeon 7990.

  • News: Game developers employ AI for more adaptive play

    Instead of charging directly at the player in the craggy martian landscape, as they might do normally, the aliens zigzag to take cover behind boulders and outcrops of rock, adjusting their approach as the hero opts for a less conspicuous route to his destination.

  • 26 March 2013

  • News: Facebook woos serious gamers

    If 2012 was the year of arcade, casino and hidden object games on Facebook, such as "Diamond Dash," "Bubble Witch Saga" and "Bubble Safari," the social network hopes 2013 will be the year of more immersive, strategy-oriented games.

  • News: Nvidia launches a 'sweet spot' GPU of its own

    Nvidia today fired the next salvo in the GPU arms race: The GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. Nvidia and arch-rival AMD have decided that 30 frames per second at 1080p resolution is the gaming sweet spot, and so the GPU designers have set about beating each other over the head to build the best chips for delivering that performance at a $150 price point.

  • News: Final Fantasy X HD to come with Final Fantasy X-2

    Although the remastered version of Final Fantasy X has been confirmed for some time, Square Enix has made the surprise announcement that the sequel, Final Fantasy X-2, will also be included.

  • News: AI programmers struggle to makes games 'imitate life'

    Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.

  • 25 March 2013

  • News: RetroN 5 adds another cartridge slot, plays even more retro classics on HDTVs

    A few weeks back, we were all excited about the RetroN 4 , a prebuilt franken-console that promised to play all your retro console games on an HDTV. Hyperkin was supposed to unveil their new console at the Midwest Gaming Classic last weekend, but the company decided to jump directly to the next iteration of its system with the RetroN 5.

  • 22 March 2013

  • News: Firaxis to release free iOS strategy game, Haunted Hollow

    Firaxis Games is best known for its PC-based bestsellers like XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the Civilization series, but now iOS gamers will have a chance to play along with the company's new strategy game, Haunted Hollow.

  • News: Remains of the Day: Can get some satisfaction

    Apple's still tops in smartphone smiles, Google's chairman lodges a foot in his mouth yet again, and a satirical game gets the boot from the App Store. The remainders for Thursday, March 21, 2013 are on a losin' streak.

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