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Pachinko keeps Sega Sammy in profit
Pachinko kept Sega Sammy in profit during the final nine months of 2011, despite declines in the company's videogame and arcade businesses. Total net sales for the nine months ending December 31 came to ¥311.6 billion (£2.58 billion). Net income, or profit, was ¥34.4 billion (£285.5 million), a decline of 6.6 per cent year on year.
Pachinko kept Sega Sammy in profit during the final nine months of 2011, despite declines in the company's videogame and arcade businesses. read more
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Tail Drift wins Unity Flash contest
Tail Drift has been selected as the winner of Unity's Flash In A Flash Creation Contest, which tasked entrants with porting Unity-authored games to Adobe Flash. Developer Cameron Owen has won $20,000 for his arcade racer, which was selected ahead of more than 500 fellow entrants.
Tail Drift has been selected as the winner of Unity's Flash In A Flash Creation Contest, which tasked entrants with porting Unity-authored games to Adobe Flash. Developer Cameron Owen has won $20,000 for his flight-based arcade racer, which was selected ahead of more than 500 fellow entrants. read more
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The Friday Game: Fail-Deadly
Chris Donlan plays an inspiringly fresh tactical game in which nuclear war meets Tetris.
I read about Josh Sutphin's strange tactical war game in the back pages of this month's PC Gamer, where it was described as deadly Tetris. That was enough to get me on board. Now I've played it, I can think of several other equally appropriate descriptions, as well: Machiavellian tennis, say, or Advance Wars for nasty people. read more
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Opinion: The dangers of gamer entitlement
Outcry over Where's My Water's 69p level bundle and Half-Life 3 highlight the problems of players loving games a little too much, says Alex Wiltshire.
“Rip-off. Why should I have to pay for Cranky levels? You have lost a customer,” reads Coolcoco’s one-star App Store review for Where’s My Water on January 30. “I love Swampy. But having to pay for an update is a bit greedy,” agreed Spence582 the same day, also awarding it just one star. read more
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Rage launches for Mac
Id Software's Rage is now available for Mac from the Mac App Store and publisher Aspyr's GameAgent store. The belated release - which comes almost four months after its debut on consoles and PC - is dubbed Rage: Campaign Edition, and includes bonus content only previously available in the Anarchy Edition.
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Id Software's Rage is now available for Mac, from the Mac App Store and publisher Aspyr's GameAgent store. The belated release - which comes almost four months after its debut on consoles and PC - is dubbed Rage: Campaign Edition, and includes bonus content only previously available in the Anarchy Edition. read more
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