Play Girlz Gaming Blog - Who’s Hot in Game Development
Just in case you have nothing better to spend your time on this weekend, Next-Generation has put together an excellent Top 100 list that could expand your gaming horizons. Their Hot 100 Developers 2008 “represents the commercial realities of the products released last year or in the next year” while factoring in “critical reception and innovative and creative contributions to the medium”.
Gamasutra - Hey, That’s MY Game! Intellectual Property Protection for Video Games
So you’ve created a video game. Naturally, you’re proud of the result after months of all-nighters spent programming and debugging the source code. Your game includes ideas, puzzles, game concepts, and user interfaces that no game has ever had. You’ve created artwork and graphics that are sure to enthrall even the most skeptical of gamers. Your game is most assuredly destined to be Game of the Year!
Too bad someone stole it and published it before you did. All your “guaranteed” profits gone in a flash. But that’s ok, because software is or at least should be free to copy, right? By becoming a software developer you have automatically bought into the notion that software should be open source, right? Who needs to be fairly compensated for their efforts when ramen noodles are 3 for $0.99?
GamePolitics - Take Two Fires Back at EA
It looks as if this fight could get ugly…
GamePolitics has just received a press release from Take Two Interactive in response to Electronic Arts’ hostile takeover bid.
In the release, the Take Two board confirms EA’s offer and pronounces it “inadequate in multiple respects and not in the best interests of Take-Two’s stockholders.”
Girl in the Machine - Two Things About Fighting Games
One that pisses me off and one that leaves me pleased as punch.
Pissy item first: Dead or Alive is infiltrating Smash Brothers Brawl. It ain’t exactly breaking news anymore, but the developers over at Nintendo decided to lovingly render upskirts for both Peach and Zelda. I won’t be posting any of the videos or images here to prevent myself from having an aneurysm. Please excuse me while I go vomit my breakfast.
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