Microsoft tailors Windows Azure for social game developers

inShare  Microsoft said today it is tailoring its Windows Azure cloud development platform for social game developers, making it much easier for them to develop, launch, and support online games. The company will release a new Windows Azure tool kit for social game developers by the end of the week. The announcement shows...

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First Trailer for 'Zen Wars' – New Strategy Game with Online Multiplayer

posted July 19th, 2011 9:00 PM EDT by Jared Nelson in iPad Games, iPhone games, iPod touch games, News, Strategy, Upcoming Games  Earlier this year, angrt birth made a nice sized splash on the App Store with Legendary Wars [99¢/Lite/HD], their unique take on castle defense games that featured fantastic art, humor, and gameplay. Now...

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ALT1 Games USA Starting Troy Online Closed Beta

ALT1 Games USA is starting the closed beta test of Troy Online, a free massive multiplayer online roleplaying game(MMORPG) based heavily on the Trojan War mythos. In Troy Online, players pick one of three classes depending on their desired play...

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Live Gamer acquires Brandport and GamerDNA as it moves into games ads

inShare Live  Gamer, a game e-commerce infrastructure firm, has acquired Brandport and GamerDNA as part of a move into the game advertising business. With these acquisitions, Live Gamer will have more ways to help game publishers make money from their online games. Not only will the company enable publishers to take...

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Hunger Games Motion Poster Online

Though the team behind The Hunger Games has apparently opted not to make a big splash at Comic-Con (there’s always the chance for a surprise or two), the promotion for the film is not slowing down. The latest element to escape into the wild wide web? A fancy motion poster, which you can see over at Yahoo. Yes, Lionsgate seem to like their...

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Game of Thrones Season 2 Cast Grows by a Pair

July 19, 2011 Two major roles for Games of Thrones season 2 have been filled just ahead of when the new episodes are scheduled to begin production across the pond. Per Entertainment Weekly, British actor Stephen Dillane is on board to portray Stannis Baratheon, the eldest younger brother of the late King Robert who has his...

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10 things PopCap boss hates about casual games

A week after orchestrating the sale of PopCap Games for up to $1.3 billion, the company's chief executive, Dave Roberts, unloaded on the casual games industry. Roberts was an opening speaker at the Casual Connect industry conference that's running today through Thursday at Benaroya Hall. Roberts took the opportunity to let loose a string of rants,...

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Deepak Chopra is making a video game about your chakra

Deepak Chopra wants to accelerate biological evolution through video games.By Winda BenedettiMany different kinds of stars have had video games made about them. Sports stars like Tiger Woods, exercise gurus like Jillian Michaels, and even the Black Eyed Peas have all had video games created around who they are and what they do. And now Deepak Chopra —...

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Season Four of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Begins Online in Clone Wars Adventures

While season four of the popular Cartoon Network series Star Wars: The Clone Wars officially kicks off this fall, players of Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play online game Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures will be able to play through an epic storyline leading directly to the first episode's opening act. In an unprecedented collaboration between...

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Online games, social networks drive virtual goods

SummaryAsia and Europe leading way in growing virtual goods market due to more users subscribing to social networking sites and accessing online games via mobile devices, industry insiders note. The virtual goods market continues on an upward growth curve as more revenue is generated from new subscribers on social networking sites and online games that can be accessed on the go from mobile devices, industry insiders said. Leslie Lin, marketing communications...

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Relic Ready and Willing to Help Out With Dark Millennium Online

By Tim Colwill - Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:21am - With a bevy of Warhammer 40,000 games currently in development, it may come as no surprise that the teams behind them occasionally get together to help each other out - and that's exactly what Relic and Vigil have been doing when it comes to Dark Millennium Online, ...

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Game Review: Brink

Cover for Brink. Photo / Supplied Brink Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Stars: 3/5 With what seems like every other game being a first-person shooter, Brink tries its best to step out of the crowd with a fresh visual style and an emphasis on teamwork, yet still packs a body count that would...

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Ubisoft buys free online game startup Owlient

SAN FRANCISCO — Videogame publishing titan Ubisoft announced Tuesday that it is buying a French developer specializing in games played free on the Internet. The purchase of Owlient comes as part of a strategy by Ubisoft to follow players onto the Internet, social networks, smartphones, tablet computers and other venues while still serving up blockbuster titles for consoles. "We are thrilled to welcome the talented team at Owlient to Ubisoft," said Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot. "Over...

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Commonwealth Games 2014 gratuities published online

Following chief executive John Scott having to resign from the organising committee for the 2014 Commonwealth Games for accepting ‘a gift’ from a potential supplier, a register of gratuities offered to the organisers has been published online. The list shows all declared gifts offered to the organising committee for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games – although the gift that Scott took is not listed, because it was not declared.  Event organisers say the principle of having the register...

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Mafia 2 - Xbox 360

Written by Jedclark Mafia 2 is a game based on the mafia, obviously. You play as Vito Scaletta, a boy brought to America in search of a better life, but only finding poverty. It borrows a lot of elements from Scarface (Joe calls someone a "****ing cockroach"), The Godfather, The Goodfellas (the bit where they are in jail and they spend time...

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NCAA Football 12 Tackling 101

EA SportsDefenders no longer warp in for the tackle in "NCAA 12." Now you need to be in proper position.Learning the proper technique to tackle is practiced day in and day out at every level of football over the summer. That's because the best coaches know that good tackling can turn an average defense into a great one. In "NCAA Football 12,"...

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Games very X-Men

What better way to enjoy the upcoming Spider-man and X-Men video games by Activision than to be able to dress your characters up in cheesy, not-so-great-looking costumes, right?Those interested in pre-ordering either Spider-man: Edge of Time or X-Men Destiny from retailer Gamestop will be able to play dress up with their in-game characters. The gallery...

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Review: No Shortage of Addictive New iPad Games

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