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The organizers of the Game Developer Conference, Think Services and Connection Events, announce that entries to attend the second edition just open. It will be held from 23 to 24 June in the Defense, Paris.

During the two days you'll have access to 50 lectures presented by national and international developers. Topics discussed will be: programming, game design, visual arts, production, management.

Everything is visible here: http://www.parisgdc.com/

This is another derivative of madness from the Casual Gaming. Apple began to offer alternatives to game development through its Software Development Kit for its Iphone. The presence of a tactile interface offers new opportunities, however, there are still some problems, not least.

For starters, what about the battery. You know, play puts a strain on electronic components, which needs more and more independently. Already that the autonomy of the Iphone is not terrible, so if we add games, it must be recharged every day!

Then comes the problem of playability. The iPhone has no key. We will have to fend for creating an interface only present on the sides of the screen, under penalty not see anything.

And finally fingerprints! On a traditional phone keypad with no noticed, but there surely they will! Anyway it is a small problem compared with the previous two.

In any case, Apple has received a big support: Gameloft expect 15 titles, John Carmack is very interested in this platform, and EA has released a special version of Spore Iphone.

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You've probably seen on the Net polemic for Metal Gear Solid 4. A representative from the studio Konami said that the English version of the game does not contain Japanese voices for a good and simple reason: lack of space on a Blu Ray. Then Kojima who also said.

You do not think it's strange, a game that fills a Blu Ray complete, ie 50GB of data? Or rather an attempt to discredit Microsoft once again about his choice to keep a DVD player. Car save 50GB of data, it is very simple indeed. Here is a quick demo:

Its 7.1 uncompressed images in uncompressed TIFF, ditto in kinematics for native 1080p. The non-optimized textures and non-repetitive, and it's good, you have your widely 50GB or more!

Moreover, games for Playstation 3 are not zoned. This means that anyone can buy American or Japanese games for a price much lower than European version. This measure to save a language on the cake could actually prove to be a measure to ban the import / export game!

We must not forget that compression exists. Of 360 on may be limited by the size, but developers have become masters in the art of compressing what Kojima does can not be!

To finish, I can only say that MGS 4 is a highly anticipated by the community, and that any lie by the development team can wreak havoc on the opinions of players, especially with the recent decline Rates at   Xbox 360! Good luck!

For once, Europeans may be pleased in terms of video games: Xbox 360 is indeed lower the price of 80 euros for all available packages. In the end, we will have:

Xbox 360 Arcade: ¹⁹⁹ E

Xbox 360 Premium: 269 ^E

Xbox 360 Elite: 369 ^E

As you can see, the Arcade pack is still less expensive than the Wii. This is beginning to have some good players for the new strategy for Microsoft to conquer Europe!

I do not know if you've already seen the future Thursday Battlefield Heroes, but it perfectly fulfilled its marketing function, which is to attract a maximum of players in the bosom of the high license to Electronic Arts.

Prime interest: this game is completely free. As the video, no need to download it illegally, or pay any penny. No need to pay a monthly subscription to regain his colleagues on the Internet. Therefore, many people will be tempted to test this game, which looks pretty!

Second interest: little violence visible. Unlike previous opus (Vietnam, 2, 2142, and soon Bad Company), which included pervasive violence, this episode may be permitted for children 12 years. Parents need not worry, what happens in the street is sometimes much more violent than what is transcribed in the game Therefore, the panel of potential players is greatly expanded.

Third interest: the graphics cartoon version. Again, in previous episodes, realism was the highlight of the game: physical realistic graphics escalation ... The sky's the cartoon version. The advantages are many: will play small and large too, so much fun with friends. Also, when you look more closely at the technique used to this game, this is not an advanced cell-shading like Crackdown or Naruto, but an old game engine has been reworked for rendering a cartoon. No advanced physics, no deformation of materials, not real-time weather effects: just playing basic, but nervous. In this way, the game becomes even more accessible! And development costs are at the same time reduced. No need indeed to have a computer art, but a machine dating from 2 years could easily turn the title. Another way to broaden the public!

To conclude, one can simply say that this game, in addition to friendly air, is an excellent marketing strategy from Electronic Arts, which I think will attract new people to license Battlefield. The cost of this "campaign" marketing will not be too high, visibility is very important, and this campaign is much more creative than the banal advertisements. The game is developed by DICE, and normally released during the summer of 2008 for download free and legal.

As shown in the video: business + creativity = businessivity!

According to Bobby Kotick, Activision CEO would invest between 0.5 and 1 billion dollars to create a competitor worthy of the name World of Warcraft. And success is not guaranteed.  

It is true that in addition to creating a very "special" should be a high-performance networking code, but also forge a license, something very difficult and as many WoW addicts in this game

When we look at the graphics quality of the title, you can be sure that it is not Next Gen. So it would be 40-50 million dollars for a major expansion, and everything else used to make a monster marketing campaign so that players do more than the new license!

In any case what is right to think when we see what Sony and qu'Eidos.

Sony has decided to sell its European complex located in Berlin, which hosted more than 8 million visitors per year, an amount exceeding $ 1 billion, according to Reuters.

Regarding SCI, the parent company of Eidos, it will eliminate 800 jobs, or 25% of staff, due to the relocation of production activities, migrating from London to Montreal to benefit from lower costs in that city. In addition, 14 projects have decided to be canceled.