ModNation Racers Was My Favorite Low-Expectation Game Of The Show [Preview]

I care little for kart-racing games and seldom generate any user-generated content. So, to be honest, I did not rush at the chance I was given last week to play ModNation Racers at Game Developer’s Conference 2010. My mistake. More

The End of RTS? A Command & Conquer 4 Interview

EALA lead designer Sam Bass discusses the ideas that his team has injected into Command & Conquer 4, the last game in the series, to help make the RTS genre more approachable to newcomers and more satisfying to all.

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News: Halo: Reach multiplayer detailed

Matchmaking changes, leagues, all sorts. Bungie has detailed multiplayer changes planned for Halo: Reach ahead of the upcoming beta test, which kicks off on 3rd May. Speaking to Shacknews, the developer outlined plans for improved social options, matchmaking and giving hardcore players stuff to do once they max out. The best and most frequent players will want to focus on Arena, where they jostle for position in five skill divisions over month-long seasons. Read more…

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The Story of Score Studios: Westerners Move East

The story behind two Westerners who moved to work at Japanese game studios and then set up their own indie, Score Studios — and why they’ve chosen to set up shop in the country widely assumed to be struggling hardest when it comes to development.

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F1 2010 Video

F1 2010 (X360) Get the first look at Codemasters’ F1 game courtesy of this developer diary,

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Interview: The Shape of God of War III

Sony Santa Monica senior producer Steve Caterson talks the development processes and content concerns that informed the development of SCEA’s biggest sequel of the generation — and what the franchise’s future may hold.

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Free To Play Games, Meet The Virtual IOU

An examination of the introduction of Kwedit, a service to allow gamers to promise to pay for virtual items and then deliver on it later may be the start of an important way to boost free-to-play revenues… or a mere blip.

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NPD: Behind the Numbers, February 2010

In Gamasutra’s latest analysis of U.S. console game retail trends, Matt Matthews examines why industry growth may finally kick in during March, while also examining music game sales and intriguing hardware trends for February 2010.

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Flower Creators: No New Games This Year, Intrigued By PlayStation Move [Gdc]

That Game Company’s Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, saw their team’s game Flower nominated for several Game Developer’s Choice Awards, winning for Best Downloadable. We talked about their future, Pokemon, and, since they made motion-games for the PS3, PlayStation Move. More

Victorious Torchlight Creators Like The Idea Of Torchlight 2 [Gdc]

Two of the creators of PC darling Torchlight won the Best Debut Game trophy at the 2010 Game Developer’s Choice Awards. Backstage after winning, they explained how to succeed on PC, considered Torchlight 2, and … I got Pokemon tips. More

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