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EA Reduces Quarterly Loss, Claims #1 Publisher Position
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image EA will be publish fewer externally-developed games, focusing on internal titles with higher margins, the company said today, and it plans to keep its headcount steady through its upcoming fiscal year.
 
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Game Developer Announces Salary Survey Call, Now Including Indies
image The editors of Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra invite readers to participate in the annual Game Developer Salary Survey, now expanded to include indies -- with a free GDC Main Conference Pass up for grabs.
 
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EA Dates Dragon Age 2, Dead Space 2, Crysis 2, Console Sims 3
image Following its fiscal third quarter results, EA said it will release Crysis 2 and a Sims 3 console title in Q4 of this year, with Dead Space 2 and Dragon Age following in early 2011.
 
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Almaz Capital Buys 23% Of Russian Casual Dev Alawar
image Almaz Capital Partners, a Russian venture capital firm, has acquired a 23 percent stake in Russian casual game developer Alawar Entertainment after buying a quantity of shares from Finam Investment Holding.
 
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The Art History... Of Games? Games As Art May Be A Lost Cause
image At the Art History of Games conference, Tale of Tales, the indie studio behind The Path, argues that "games are not art," and "largely a waste of time." Meanwhile, one professor examines where art and play have collided.
 
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Gran Turismo Series Exceeds 55 Million Units
image Polyphony Digital said it has sold 55.45 million units of its "real driving simulator" Gran Turismo worldwide across the entire franchise; recent PSP GT sells 1.8 million.
 
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image Electronic Arts' and BioWare's spacefaring role-playing game Mass Effect 2 led UK charts for the second week in a row, despite a 64 percent week-on-week drop, Chart-Track reported Monday.
 
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Release This: BioShock 2, Dante's Inferno Arrive Stateside
image Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings BioShock 2 and Dante's Inferno to North America, while Japan gets MadWorld and Zangeki no Reginleiv.
 
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Swashbuckling for Landlubbers: Why you may already be encouraging piracy!
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Yo-ho, a pirates' life for all your customers! Why you may already be encouraging piracy with your... [2]
 
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Student Postmortem: Drifters
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