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GCG's Game Design Challenge: Achievement and Insomnia

GameCareerGuide has recently posted its next Game Design Challenge: design a card game that incorporates the theme 'insomnia.' Will students and aspiring game designers figure out how to suggest 'insomnia' representatively through an abstract system? The site has also posted the top three submissions to a recently closed design challenge in which readers invented a new Xbox Achievement for an existing game. The contests are judged by game designer Manveer Heir (Raven Software) and staff ...

Midway Threatened With Stock Market Delisting

Publisher and developer Midway (This Is Vegas) has been warned that it risks being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), as its share price continues to fall. In order to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange every company is required to maintain a minimum average closing price of $1.00 per share over 30 consecutive trading days, but following a series of recent setbacks, Midway has been unable to comply with this ...

UFC Fighters Leave, Return After THQ Game Deal Controversy

Online reports have suggested that contract negotiations between game publisher THQ and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) have contributed to high profile fighter John Fitch and many of his teammates leaving the organization. Reports from Sports Illustrated and other mixed martial arts weblogs suggest that Fitch refused to sign a lifetime contract for his likeness to be used by THQ in its games. The move apparently came after earlier complaints by a majority of UFC ...

Japanese Hardware: DSi Dominates As PS3 Outsells Xbox Again

Sales of the Nintendo DSi continue to dominate in Japan, as the format settles down from its launch three weeks ago. Combined sales for the DS format fell by 16,000 units to 88,886 - still well above the format's weekly totals for most of the previous year. Most formats saw a slight stepdown in sales this week though, despite a strong week in the software charts. For example, still suffering from a recent lull in ...

Saling The World: Call of Duty, Lich King Reign in U.S. Charts

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five real-time Amaozon.com sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from November 20th, 2008, find Call of Duty: World at War and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King again topping sales in North America and the UK, while Japan sees new chart leadership in Gundam ...

PlayStation 3 Games To Require Trophies From January 2009

Sony has confirmed that support for its PlayStation 3 Trophy reward system will be mandatory for PS3 games releasing in 2009, having introduced the online awards in July of this year, according to media reports. Sony's PlayStation 3 Trophy system functions similarly to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Achievements, although there is no aggregate score across all titles for Trophies. They have been implemented in a wide variety of PlayStation 3 games released since their introduction, and ...

Ziff Davis CEO Considering Shuttering Print Version Of EGM

Yesterday, publisher Ziff Davis announced it will cease distribution of the paper version of PC Magazine -- but is its lone remaining print magazine, veteran game periodical Electronic Gaming Monthly, far behind? According to a New York Times report, Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young is not confident in its continued publication, either. Buried in the story about PC Magazine is this snippet, which doesn't feature any direct quotes from Young: "Mr. Young said the company ...

WB, Halcyon, GRIN Announce Terminator Salvation Video Game

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is distributing a game based on the 2009 Terminator Salvation film starring Christian Bale, currently under development by Stockholm, Sweden-based GRIN, which is also working on WBIE's Wanted. About a year ago, Terminator rights-holders The Halcyon Company formed a game division with an eye toward publishing a Terminator Salvation game. According to the company, the game is based on the upcoming film, and places the player into the role of John ...

Trion, Sci-Fi Hire Carbine Co-Founder For Connected MMO

Online world firm Trion World Network announced the appointment of Kevin Beardslee as senior development director for its massively multiplayer online game co-developed with the Sci-Fi Channel. Previously, Beardslee founded Carbine Studios, an NCSoft North America division, where he helped create and oversee the development for an unannounced MMO. Before that, he worked with Blizzard Entertainment as a lead animator on World of Warcraft. Beardslee will work from Trion's San Diego studio on an original ...

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