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Date: Mon, 25. August 2008 13:18:00

The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....

Date: Thu, 5. June 2008 13:09:24

Independent developers around the world have discovered that forcing themselves to make games under insanely tight deadlines is a great way to get games made. Some of them are awful, but some of them are downright awesome.

Date: Thu, 9. October 2008 15:04:59

Reuters reports that YouTube will be partnering with Amazon and iTunes to provide the ability to purchase games and songs that are in or related to YouTube's hosted videos. For example, watching footage from Spore will bring up a link to purchase the actual game through Amazon. The sales revenue will be shared. In related news, Google has launched a public beta for their in-game advertising software based on Adsense. "Google is initially targeting the sweet spot for its technology: games based in Adobe's Flash platform and which run in a web browser with no download. ... [Christian Oestlien, senior product manager at Google] said that Google's advertisers can use the software to insert ads into games or videos for YouTube, making the ads more versatile. Developers of games can use Flash software development kits to designate the points in a game that make an 'ad request.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Tue, 16. September 2008 15:21:37

PC Magazine - Everyone always talks about how monumental a money generator World of Warcraft has been for Blizzard, but here's a figure you don't hear much about: How much does WoW actually cost Blizzard to maintain?

Date: Fri, 5. September 2008 20:53:04

NewsFactor - If you can't manage to occupy yourself Web surfing, e-mailing or listening to tunes on your iPhone, EA Mobile has just announced a raft of games for the iPod touch and the iPhone. Phone games have become a real phenomenon as more and more mobile devices have enough screen real estate and processing power to become a viable game platform. The EA announcement Friday focused on the release of Spore Origins for the Apple mobile market, but the company also released details of nine other upcoming mobile game titles.

Date: Fri, 6. June 2008 15:04:08

TechDirt is reporting that former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has moved into the one industry that I don't think anyone might have expected, video games. Not only did she speak at a recent gaming conference, she is also working on creating a video game about the courts. "There have been many similar 'civic education' video games out there, like the UN video game to teach kids about world hunger and, my personal favorite, a video game to teach kids how to gerrymander voting districts to get political support. It's not clear how successful any of these sorts of games really are, but it's nice to see a former Supreme Court Justice taking an interest in these sorts of things. Though, some might point out that this could be seen as something of a gimmick, and students might just be better served by adding a decent civics curriculum back into school (it's apparently gone thanks to No Child Left Behind)."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 18. August 2008 20:33:59

Kyle Orton will start as the Chicago Bears opening day quarterback ? beating Rex Grossman in a competition that lasted through training camp and two preseason games.

Date: Fri, 14. November 2008 16:27:19

Why are Sony and Activision Blizzard building tools for gamers to create content ? content, by the way, that sells their games, adds potentially unlimited shelf life to the games and helps build a vibrant community around the games ? and then Big Brothering all the cool stuff right off the servers?

Date: Mon, 24. November 2008 18:18:44

Both use the same CPU, but apparently the second generation iPod Touch is clocking its quite a bit faster, according to a report. While observing empirical evidence that the iPod Touch 2G was running games quite a bit faster than the iPhone 3G, Handheld Games Corp. noted that the CPU in the devices, an ARM 1176, is running at 532 Mhz in the Touch 2G, and 412 Mhz in the iPhone 3G.

Date: Tue, 11. November 2008 15:05:01

Epic Games president Michael Capps did an interview recently with GamesIndustry, and he had some interesting things to say about the future of downloadable content, and how it will affect the retail games market. He also discussed the trend toward social gaming, and Epic's plans in that regard. Quoting: "I'm not sure how big it is here [in Europe], but the secondary market is a huge issue in the United States. Our primary retailer makes the majority of its money off of secondary sales, and so you're starting to see games taking proactive steps toward that by ... if you buy the retail version you get the unlock code. I've talked to some developers who are saying 'If you want to fight the final boss you go online and pay USD 20, but if you bought the retail version you got it for free.' We don't make any money when someone rents it, and we don't make any money when someone buys it used mdash; way more than twice as many people played Gears than bought it."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/006202amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/11/006202"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/006202amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/kTbXmb3CWdS94vGiYix3XtmqyJ8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/kTbXmb3CWdS94vGiYix3XtmqyJ8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cjhIH7qN504" height="1" width="1"/