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Social games firm Zynga has inked a deal to promote Born This Way, the new album from Lady Gaga. The partnership involves a virtual ‘GagaVille’ farm in its FarmVille game, a contest in its mobile social game Words With Friends, and other elements. The GagaVille farm will let fans unlock …
Read More »Social games market will "crash very hard"
The social gaming market that has propelled firms such as Zynga to success is going to crash very hard”. That’s according to Silicon Knights’ founder Denis Dyack, who believes that Facebook gaming and similar phenomena are in for a shock when the bubble bursts. It is damaging traditional gaming for …
Read More »Buzz dev signs with IPTV service
UK developer Relentless Software is the latest studio to partner with TV games specialists PlayJam. The team behind the popular Buzz! quiz series will be able to develop social games for PlayJam’s aggregated games portal, which launches on Samsung and LG Smart TVs later this month. The portal will focus …
Read More »Capcom introduces Smurfs DLC cap
Players of Capcom’s hit iOS title Smurf’s Village will, once having installed the latest update, find that the game has introduced a cap on the game’s micro-transactions. From this point on the game will limit users to five in-game purchases every 15 minutes. PocketGamer reports that the move has been …
Read More »Valve: We’ll ensure Steam doesn’t flood
But the firm says it won't tighten submission standards, and calls for more indies
Read More »Steam dev revenue split ‘flexible but fair’
Valve explains its supple royalty system, and examines the platform's astounding growth
Read More »Valve on Steam
The astoundingly popular digital platform has revolutionised the PC industry, but how? And what next?
Read More »Duke Nukem dev set for BAFTA
Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford – the man in charge of the upcoming, long-delayed Duke Nukem Forever – will be taking questions at a special event next week. The Q/A session will be hosted by GameSpot’s Johnny Chiodini on Wednesday, May 11th at the BAFTA HQ. The session will focus …
Read More »SWTOR removed from EA release schedule
As of last night, Star Wars: The Old Republic no longer appears in EA’s release schedule. Earlier this year MCV revealed that EA was targeting a September 2011 release for the game. The story was greeted with disdain and abuse from a large contingent of BioWare’s fanbase in the MCV …
Read More »What app programming language is right for you?
[Sponsored Feature] Intel looks at the tools on offer
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