Sony has closed one of the UK's oldest video game studios following a review of its operations.
Perhaps more importantly for small game studios, he said, pledges helped developers manage their cashflow.
The launch of a UK-focused Kickstarter has also provoked projects from British game studios.
Developers at Bethesda Game Studios wanted gamers to have more flexibility to play however they wanted.
Now that mobile devices are portable game consoles, new game studios such as Zynga have emerged as major players.
Nvidia has several members of the Project Shield group visiting game studios, helping them optimize their titles for Tegra 4.
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"Halo 3 has become a pop-culture phenomenon, " said Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, in a statement.
Especially as you consider recent articles showing that the actual game studios are focusing MORE not less on the PC format.
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Look at how much money game giants like Electronic Arts have invested in the mobile space, acquiring game studios like PopCap, Chillingo and Firemint.
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Most prominently, how do game studios make money on its devices?
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Trion Worlds recently hired Dave Luehmann, who previously was general manager of Microsoft Game Studios working on the Xbox, as its vice president for 3rd party development.
Louisiana boasts the strongest Digital Media Tax Incentive in the country, wooing both established and startup game studios to relocate to New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport.
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The debut trailer posted on the official Amazon Game Studios blog shows a wide array of challenges, including one that appears to be taken from The Sword in the Stone.
And while game studios spending millions grinding out futuristic or violent epics have to rely on distribution via store shelves and online retailers like Amazon.com, casual game developers have more options.
When Kellee Santiago resigned from her previous gig as president of thatgamecompany, she left behind a job running one of the most highly acclaimed indie game studios in the industry.
But with the government wading in on behalf of small video game studios, the question is whether the joystick and the console will enjoy the protection of the "cultural exception francaise".
Unfortunately, most game studios don't have formal internship programs.
The 3-D phenomenon is important to Sony's television and media businesses, as evidenced by what was shown at the company's CES booth, and as Microsoft Game Studios vice president Phil Spencer suggested in an interview last year.
And while game studios spending millions grinding out futuristic or violent epics have to rely on distribution via store shelves and online retailers like Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), casual game developers have more options.
The concept of growth in a high-volume, highly competitive market such as the online gaming space would seem like a monolithic feat to those indie game studios to push their brand and new products into the rankings of the top dogs (Zynga, etc).
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All of this adds a lot of cost, and you have to wonder whether game studios, particularly smaller ones, are going to be prepared to absorb that overhead for a market that no-one is saying is going to be large in the near future.
Epic Games is one of the most successful independent game development studios in the world today.
In so many words, ALT Systems will take the disparate pieces of hardware and software from HP, NVIDIA, Autodesk and Epic Games to provide an all-in-one buying solution for game dev studios.
In addition to creating the new game, Evolution Studios worked with Sony in designing the new PS4 controller.
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But Sony instead focused on a new game from Evolution Studios, DriveClub, to put front and center for its big PS4 reveal in New York City.
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The new game from Starbreeze Studios and Electronic Arts is a reboot of a 1993 title that was more of a tactical shooter and strategy game than a first-person shooter.
Schilling, founder and chairman of Rhode Island-based game maker 38 Studios, earned the ring in a former life, when his pitching helped the Arizona Diamondbacks win the 2001 World Series.
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This is actually the second video game adaptation for these production studios, which collaborated on another Sony PlayStation game, Heavenly Sword.
In the most recent issue of Game Informer, Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida said the company was working on a free-to-play type game.
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This is a smart position for Epic and one that more game developers, music studios, and others in the entertainment industry should consider taking.
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