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Viral marketing goes insane

How do you promote your game so you can make headlines and be the talk of the crowd? The era of billboards and massive ad campaigns is over, so all that’s left is viral marketing and embedding a launch as deeply as possible into real life. That’s exactly what Splinter Cell’s promoters thought, but they [...]

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E3 – top 10 (possibly epic) news

It’s that time of the year, when gamers and geeks everywhere are superstars (although they’ve gone mainstream for a while now) and they are treated to the best in gaming and entertainment. It’s E3 time!
Everything seems to be epic at E3 Expo: Epic Mickey, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, epic returns, epic launches. What happened to just [...]

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Gaming will take over our lives. And we’re happy about it.

A lot of people see games as a distinct reality, but is it really? I believe it’s not the case. I think playing games is more a part of our daily routine than we actually acknowledge. Games are challenging and they are motivating, so bringing more gaming into our lives can only help us be [...]

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How gaming can save the world (TED Talk)

You may think the statement in the title is way of line, but watch this video and you’ll see how it’s actually not like that at all. Gaming can save the world. Just imagine a simple fact: what if your job would be somewhat like playing a game? It would be so much easier and [...]

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Hi5 and MySpace turn their attention to social gaming

If you’re still a skeptic about the social gaming expansion, this will surely  convince you that it’s true. Hi5 and MySpace are focusing their efforts on developing their platforms and adapting them for social gaming. Gaming was declared an important aspect in their strategy, which is natural if we take a look at Facebook’s evolution. [...]

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The State of the Social Gaming Industry

Last week there was the Gaming Developers Conference in San Francisco, where the state of the social gaming industry was discussed, among other subjects that caught our eye. The guys over at InsideSocialGames.com compiled a presentation out of the most interesting insights concerning social gaming discussed during the conference. Here it is.

Justin Smith State Social [...]

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Another gaming face-off: Natal vs. Playstation Move

Yet another gaming face-off causes excitement in the gaming world! Mashable is hosting a poll on the two important next generation controllers on the market: the Natal Project and Playstation Move. So who you think is going to win in this challenge?
My vote goes to Natal. They’ve really changed the gaming world’s perspective with their [...]

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Online Gaming Face-off on Mashable

Mashable.com, the best social media resource we all know and feed upon, is hosting a very interesting face-off. They put the two titans of online gaming, XboxLive and the Playstation Network, head to head in a fan battle, as I’d call it. So, who would you pick? You can chose your favourite here.

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Glitch – a new MMO from Stewart Butterfield (Flickr co-founder)

The guys over at TechRadar.com have written an article about a new MMOG (massive multiplayer online game) developed by Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr.
Glitch has been put together by Butterfield in association with the developers over at Tiny Speck and is intriguingly described as a collaborative and rather psychedelic-looking 2D platformer.
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New Need for Speed games announced

According to reliable sources, such as Rpmgo.com, EA Games has 3 new Need for Speed games in the making.
NFS World is scheduled to be released between April and June, this year, exclusively on the PC, while a new NFS game will appear around October-December, 2010 for the PC, consoles like the Xbox [...]

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