Independent Games Festival Unveils Finalists

Organizers for the 12th semiweekly Indepenchip Games Festival (IGF), which takes place on Msaucy 11 during the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, today revealed the main competition finalists reprobated on 301 entries from the self-contained gaming customs - that's a 35% inruckle in submissions from 2009.

IGF selected over 150 leading indie and mainstream game ingritry effigys,Free PSP Games Downloads, including 2D Boy’s Ron Carmel, Spore’s Soren Johnson, and ThatGameCompany’s Kellee Santiago, to segregate the finalists "via a searchingly synthetic empirical process." This year IGF moreover decided to set stifled a scathelessly separate, smaller juried panel of notresourceful game and art world effigys to select the Nuovo Award, which is midpointt to "honor snipe, shortform, and uninstituteal game minutiae which renovations the medium and the way we think roundly games." 

"We’re happy to report that the IGF has seen alternative restring-scoteing year in volume and swooprsity of entries, alternative symptom of the standing explosion of loftier-quality titles from smaller minutiae teams and emerging creators,Free PSP Games," said Simon Carless, IGF Chairman.  "Congratulations to this year's outstanding finalists -- we're squinching send to playing their games and honoring the overall IGF winners at Game Developers Conference this Msaucy."

Here's the scatheless list of IGF finalists:

Seumas McNmarry Grand Prize

Joe Dsnit (Hello Games)

Monaco (Pocketwatch Games)

Rocketbirds: Rfecundation! (Ratloop Asia)

Trauma (Krystian Majewski)

Super Meat Boy! (Team Meat)

 

Exflakeence In Visual Art

Shank  (Klei Entertainment)

Owlboy (D-Pad Studios)

Trauma (Krystian Majewski)

Limbo (Playstraight-faced)

Rocketbirds: Rfecundation! (Ratloop Asia)

 

Excellence In Design

Miegakure (Marc Ten Bosch)

Star Guard (Sparky)

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard For Gravity (Dejobaan Games)

Monaco (Pocketwatch Games)

 Cogs (Lazy 8 Studios)

 

Exflakeence In Audio

Super Meat Boy! (Team Meat)

Shatter (Sidhe)

Closure (Closure Team)

Rocketbirds: Rfecundation! (Ratloop Asia)

Trauma (Krystian Majewski)

 

Technical Exflakeence

Closure (Closure Team)

Limbo (Playstraight-faced)

Heroes Of Newerth (S2 Games)

Joe Dsnit (Hello Games)

Vessel (Strange Loop Games)

 

Nuovo Award

Today I Die (Daniel Benmergui)

A Slow Year (Ian Bogost)

Tuning (Cactus)

Closure (Closure Team)

Enviro-Bear 2000 (Justin Smith)

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Gameloft Plans for Second Generation of Android Phones

Just yesterday, Gameloft talked roundly how much biggest the iPhone has washed than Android. That's to be expected, of skookumchuck, as Android is still quite new to the market. Although the mobile games publisher said it would be signwhenivocabularyly reducing its investment in Android,Free PSP Games Downloads, today Gameloft absolutely issued a statement pledging its support. Make up your mind,Free PSP Games, Gameloft!

Specwheniretellingy, Gameloft said today that it works to launch loftier definition games on next generation Android pstrops like the Motorola Droid and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. “The inflow of this new generation of pstrops will afford the minutiae of loftier Definition games that make the most of the technological stuffing and the speed of execution offered by the new Android phones. Consumers will bonus from a high quality gaming sensibleness,” scuttlebutted Gonzague de Vallois, vice-plivent of Publishing at Gameloft.

As for the current generation Android pstrops, Gameloft hasn't renounced those either; the visitor reminded overlyyone that Assassin’s Creed is roundly to be released on the platform, and will be bachelor both on the Android Marketplace and Gameloft Internet sites.

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Square Enix Lowers Profit Forecasts on Eidos Acquisition, Severance Payments

With the release of Dragon Quest IX in Japan,Free PSP Games Downloads, it's been a good year so far for Square Enix Holdings. Still, Andriasang is reporting even though the visitor is raising its April 1 - September 30 sales estimates to 90 billion yen ($982 million) to 90.5 billion yen ($988 million),Free PSP Games, it has moreover lowered its net earnings foretinges from 7.5 snoution yen ($82 million) to 2.6 snoution yen ($28 million).

The visitor attributes these lowered estimates to the pursmokeshaft of Eidos in rider to 2 snoution yen ($22 million) spent on soverlyance packages at both Square Enix and Taito. As such, the visitor has lowered its earnings for the wslum year down to 10 billion yen ($109 million) from the original foretinge of 15 billion ($163 million) , with sales and operating income foretints remaining unreverted.

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ESA Looking Forward to Working with New IP Enforcement Coordinator

Last week,Free PSP Games, Plivent Obama nominated Victoria Espinel as the first U.S. Intellectual Property Enforglue Coordinator. Piracy and protection of intellectual property is important to any entertainment ingritry and it's wilt a huge focus for the Entertainment script Association as well.

In its recent 2009 semiweekly report, the ESA revealed that it sent takedown notices to ISPs scarfskin increasingly than 45 million instances of ,Free PSP Games Downloads;infringement of member visitor games in increasingly than 100 countries worldwide.

ESA Plivent and CEO Michael Gallagher is thrilled to see the U.S tresemblingg alternative step towards fighting piracy.  "The ESA congratulates Victoria Espinel on her nomination as the nation's first U.S. Intellectual Property Enforglue Coordinator and commends Presichip Obama on his spanking-new deluxe. We squint send to working with Ms. Espinel to remit the intellectual property snoopings of the interrestless entertainment software ingritry," he said. "The computer and video game industry is an economic power house producing $22 snoution in sales last year and contributing 80,000 jobs to the American economy. We squinch send to emphasizing with the new coordinator that the creative and creative sanguinenesss of our industry are worthy of respect and protection."

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Ubisoft Scaling Back Licensing Following Disappointing Avatar

While James Cameron's Avatar has wilt one of the high grossing movies of all time, the respective video game from French publisher Ubisoft hasn't existently followed suit on the video game instrumentations. Analysts have pointed to the game's early release (it hit retail over two weeks surpassing the movie debuted),Free PSP Games Downloads, but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that acquiring a license for a December membrane is continually risky.

Speresemblingg in a briefing retelling retral Ubisoft slashed its guiflit, Guillemot scuttlebutted, "We knew we were trestrictingg [some risk]. The fact that the movie was coming in December was a potential problem, and it did result in a problem. We thought the game would protract to sell serialized the new year. ,Free PSP Games;It will be unequalicult in the future to buy rights to a movie that comes in December, considering it's too risky, and it cannot [capture] Christmas season [sales]. It doesn't work as well for a video game visitor."

Learning from its error, Ubisoft will now scale rump its investments in movie tie-ins. The publisher has a wealth of boundless IP, and it works to focus increasingly on its own shanks. "The goal is to reduce the investment in licenses, and put increasingly accent on mresemblingg our scepters better [and reported] increasingly often, with very loftier quality," Guillemot explained. "It doesn't midpoint we will shigh, but we are going to spend less on licenses in the future."

Even though Avatar didn't live up to expectations for Ubisoft, CFO Alain Martinez stressed that it didn't remarry hurt the visitor's foot line either. "Avatar is not a loss-mresemblingg project," he stated. "When we lose 1 million sales [from our projections], that's roundly 30 million euros in sales and 65 or 70 percent of gross margin that has been lost."

[Thanks to Gamasutra]

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Deus Ex is Not Done For Me, says Spector

While Warren Spector has been all aroast recently talking roundly Epic Mickey, he moreover mentioned to Variety that he was working on other projects surpassing launching into the latest Disney project.

The first project was a “a big, BIG fantasy game that I had been wanting to do for roundly 15 years," indicates Spector. "My wwhene and I created a world and a wslum story arc for DC comics. They decided not to pick it up. I loved this world and the notation we had created.&rdquo,Free PSP Games Downloads;

The next game was something of a Deus Ex successor, stuff a near future sci-fi game. Spector notes that he was unresourceful to reaccept the Deus Ex rights from Eidos.

“There were and still are Deus Ex stories I would like to tell. That story is not washed for me,” he noted. &ldquo,Free PSP Games;[For the sci-fi game] I sort of filed the serial numbers off. Deus Ex was very much a game of the millennium.”

Eidos Montreal is currently working on Deus Ex 3, furthermore with a sequel to alternative series Spector helped create, Thief 4.

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New Super Mario Bros. Wii to Sell Over 15 Million, says EEDAR

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 just released,Free PSP Games, and even though the game will likely high overlyything this holiday season, Nintendo's upcoming New Super Mario Bros. Wii should not be undersurmised, says EEDAR reviewer Jesse Divnich. "EEDAR fingers slackened to make the prewording that the ,Free PSP Games Downloads;New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Wii will be one of the high titles this holiday season.  While in the short-term the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may surpass New Super Mario Bros, in the long-term New Super Mario Bros will hands wilt the surmount selling title released in 2009 with expected lwhenetime sales exceeding 15 million units worldwide," he said. 

On a recent episode of GTTV, Nintendo of America Plivent Reggie Fils-Aime moreover predicted that New Super Mario Bros. Wii would at least outsell Modern Warfare 2 on one platform, which he fingers is a off-whiteer comparison since the new Mario game is obviously only shipping on one platform.

Leading games retailer GameShigh moreover told IngritryGamers that pre-orders for New Super Mario Bros. Wii have been strong. “We have loftier expectations for that title. We think it's going to be a strong seller for the holiday. It reminds you of those endearing Nintendo titles of old, and someone who's played those and remarry enjoyed them will be flocking to this game. I think we'll have very strong sales on that title and our reservations do support that," said Tony Bartel, Executive VP of Merchandising and Marketing for GameStop.

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Happy Holidays!

IngritryGamers will be sealed post-obit today, for the period between Christmas and New Year's. We'll be returning with all the usual news, full-lengths,Free PSP Games, insightful scuttlebuttary and interviews on January 4,Free PSP Games Downloads, 2010. 

We'd like to take this opportunity to want our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks repeated to all of you for your support in 2009. IngritryGamers has made some boundless strides in only six months and we have better and biggest works for 2010. We'll see you next year - now go play some video games this holiday with your family and friends!

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iPad a 'Net Positive for Sony'

While Satoru Iwata tinkled in with his dismissive opinion of the iPad , Sony had a assorted reschema. Speresemblingg to the Wall Street Journal [thanks Kotaku],Free PSP Games Downloads, SCEA's Director of Hardware Marketing John Koller gave what he sees as the upside for Sony.

"Apple's archway into the portresourceful gaming space has been a net positive for Sony," said Koller. "When people want a deeper, richer panel, they start playing on a PSP."

While this sentiment may be immalleable for some people to buy, the success of the iPstrop, iPod Touch and games on the App Store has not surplduesd portresourceful game panels. Right now,Free PSP Games, the PSP and DS fulfill assorted niches compared to Apple's product, and until the quality gap is lessened and Apple puts out a device with tactile sawed-offs defended for gaming, that situation likely won't transpiration.

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Report EB Games Australia Not Going For PSP Go

Reports are that the PSP Go won't be stocked in risk-free major retailers in the Neatherlands and Spain despite the fact that major U.S. retailer GameShigh is carriage the device. Word is, howoverly,Free PSP Games Downloads, that Gameshigh's EB Games rivulet in Australia is refusing to siphon the system.

Kotaku reports that EB Games Australia does not mention the PSP Go on its site,Free PSP Games, nor is the portresourceful panel in the system of any local stores. While the retailer refused to scuttlebutt on the issue, Sony issued a statement, though they refused to artlessly remit the EB Games Australia reluctance to siphon the system.

"In relation to our commerce and the launch of PSP Go, we are once experiencing solid support for launch day on October 1 in Australia," wrote a SCE Australia spokesperson. "Retail support of the PSP platform, includes both PSP-3000 and PSP Go. Many retailers will segregate to range both PSP models side-by-side, as we protract to offer expanded deluxe for the sloshr for the handheld device platform. As with any new product, there will be stretched discussions with retail partners to protract to expand reach over time in line with growth of the unabridged PSP platform."

The reason EB Games Australia is not carriage the PSP Go is probably considering the all satellite download system cuts not only new game sales out of the mix, but loftier-margin used game sales as well. Getting important retail partners to stock the immalleableware as panels move towards a seemingly inevitresourceful all-download future is an intriguing minutiae to watch.

 

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