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[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Double Fine's Tim Schafer, FASA founder Jordan Weisman, Zynga's Brian Reynolds, and many others.] In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week, a wide variety of developers, publishers, and indies shared their thoughts on game cloning, arcade titles from Atari designers, and Kinect's future. This Week's Noteworthy Game Industry Quotes "There are now more opportunities than ever for game ...

In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Visceral Games, 2K Marin, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and others. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across Gamasutra's network of submarket sites, which includes content ...

[Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online games market from This Is Game, the leading English-language site about the country's game industry.] In our latest round-up of news from South Korea's online games space, we look at a new game ratings group set up by the government, plans to review online gaming regulations, and WeMade Entertainment purchasing online action game Lost Saga. 470,000 minors presumably addicted to games The South ...

Apple struck a blow against video game clones today by removing several offending apps from one rather prolific independent developer. Among the removed games are apps such as Plant vs. Zombie, Angry Ninja Birds, and Temple Jump, each of which (as you might guess from their titles) had more than a little in common with with major titles such as Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, and Temple Run, respectively. The recently-removed Temple Jump in particular ...

With the 2012 Game Developers Conference inching ever closer, show organizers are highlighting new talks within the Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit, featuring Halfbrick on Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, PopCap on Bejeweled Blitz, and Pocket Gems on post-release development. These talks join an already jam-packed lineup for the Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit, which will feature sessions covering the latest and most influential practices in mobile development, spanning platforms from iOS, Android, Windows Phone, ...

[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor-in-chief Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on "Best Of Indie Games," we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The delights in this edition include a racing game for the Xbox Live Indie Games service, a ...

Newsbrief: Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi has raised its annual financial guidance following better-than-expected sales of its Disgaea franchise. For the 12 month period ended March 31, 2012, Nippon Ichi expects to see 203 million yen ($2.7 million) in profit, up from 59 million yen ($770,000), while overall revenue is expected to hit 2.29 billion yen ($30.1 million), down slightly from 2.25 billion yen ($29.5 million) previously. According to Japan-focused game site Andriasang, the company's boost ...

Electronic Arts has laid off what it's calling a "small number" of employees at its Vancouver branch as part of a restructuring effort to focus more on its digital content. With the move, EA said it hopes to better align its Vancouver branch with the company's current focus on digital, online, and free to play games, reports Industry Gamers. While technically located just outside of Vancouver in Burnaby, British Colombia, this branch is home to ...

Xbox Live's policy and enforcement director Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse, who has worked at Microsoft for nearly 18 years, announced that he's resigning from the company in two weeks to explore other opportunities. Toulouse often served as the public face for Xbox Live matters, and managed complaints and user bannings/suspensions on the Xbox 360 online service. He described his position as "[making] the Xbox Live experience a consistent, safe, and enjoyable one." Prior to joining the ...

[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Kingdom Rush, Hamlet HD and Paper Monsters currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Where's My Water? ($0.99) 2. Kingdom Rush ($0.99) 3. Paper Monsters ($0.99) 4. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 5. Words With Friends HD ($0.99) 6. Angry Birds Rio HD ($2.99) ...

Newsbrief: UK-based racing game studio Eutechnyx has teamed up with racing simulation specialist Brain in a Jar to work on a "key project" in 2012. Eutechnyx is currently developing free-to-play Auto Club Revolution, for which it received $2.8 million from the UK government's regional growth fund late last year, while Brain in a Jar has in the past provided development work for Codemasters and Reflections. Brain in a Jar will provide Eutechnyx with its proprietary ...

Troubled UK retailer Game Group has received support from its stakeholders and lenders, allowing the company to continue to operate into the near future. Earlier this week, it came to light that the group was in talks with lenders about its credit issues, and was "reviewing a strategic plan" for its overseas operations that could see the company selling off more than half of its locations. Game Group has already announced that it intends to ...

Newsbrief: The iOS version of popular Nintendo DS title Scribblenauts has sold over one million copies in the App Store since launching last year, announced publisher Warner Bros. Interactive. The game was released in October 2011, and quickly climbed to number one in the top paid iPhone game charts. The game combines a variety of levels found in both the original Scribblenauts game and its sequel Super Scribblenauts. Developer Iron Galaxy said that it will ...

Following the filing of a copyright infringement suit by social game developer Spry Fox against publisher 6waves Lolapps, 6waves has now denied that it has broken a non-disclosure agreement with the Triple Town developer. Spry Fox sued 6waves last week over its latest release Yeti Town, which Spry Fox claims is a "blatant copy of Triple Town." 6Waves Lolapps released Yeti Town in December as a free app for iOS devices. When originally asked whether ...

Media giant Viacom has posted financial results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, blaming a significant drop in profits year-over-year on charges related to the Rock Band video game series. Viacom originally acquired Rock Band developer Harmonix back in 2006, but eventually sold the company back to its founders in 2010. The founders then sued Viacom, claiming that the company was attempting to scheme its way out of paying performance-based bonuses. The ...

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, BitSquid co-founder Niklas Frykholm talks about designing systems so that error handling is as sensible as possible, and looks at the kind of errors you will need to deal with.] In this article (and the follow-up), I'm going to discuss how I think you should design systems so that the error handling is as sensible as possible and the burden on the callers is minimized. Note that I'm discussing ...

PlayStation Move-controlled Johann Sebastian Joust is the sort of thing that truly needs to be played to be understood. The improvisational, highly-physical experience has captivated indie gaming fans worldwide -- chances are you've heard the flood of enthusiasm from those who have tried it. It's earned an honorable mention in the Excellence in Design category for this year's Independent Games Festival, and -- as an unconventional, experimental game -- has earned a nod in the ...

Imagine if the creators of classic arcade games like Asteroids, Tank and Battlezone got together and decided to start making games for iPad. You'd have to wonder how their "old school" mindsets would translate to perhaps the most dynamic gaming platform our there. Soon, we won't have to wonder, because a new video game company, led by former Xbox man Seamus Blackley, is combining the talents of 11 Atari (the original Atari) development superstars who ...

Newsbrief: Within its quarterly earnings report this Thursday, publisher Take-Two revealed that Rockstar's popular Red Dead franchise has sold 13 million units worldwide. Just last September, Take-Two reported that franchise sales stood around 12.5 million units, indicating that the games are still seeing healthy momentum well after the successful Red Dead Redemption's May 2010 release. These latest numbers include all versions of Red Dead Redemption, its standalone add-on disk Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, as ...

Newsbrief: Alongside THQ's weak earnings report for its fiscal third quarter, the publisher revealed that it has decided to take a new, more cautious approach with its upcoming Warhammer 40,000-based MMO, Dark Millenium Online. In a Gamasutra-attended investor conference call, THQ CEO Brian Farrell explained that the publisher is looking to partner with another company to help mitigate costs and bring the large-scale project to market. "Because of the large financial commitment and associated risks, ...