March 13, 2012
At the time of this writing, the Double Fine Kickstarter drive has raised an astonishing $2,830,877 for the development of an untitled and entirely unseen adventure game, with thirty hours to go before the fundraiser's end. It reached the studio's lofty $400,000 goal seven times over, and — if the promotion manages a last-minute push before its termination — could reach a cool three million (update: It just did !). That number is quite an outlier, but Double Fine is not the only studio to seek and find funding from Kickstarter's crowdsources.
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Sony has taken to removing PSP titles from the PlayStation Store in an attempt to close security holes in the PS Vita . The compromised titles, Motorstorm: Arctic Edge (subtltled Raging Ice in Japan) and Everybody's Tennis, can be used to run hacker Wololo's Vita Half-Byte Loader (VHBL), which can execute unsigned homebrew code. The move by Sony means that people who previously purchased the games are unable to download them again — we bought Motorstorm on the above PSP Go back in 2009, but it's completely disappeared from our download history when viewed on our Vita Read more [...]
Less than a year and a half after opening in beta, Minecraft has racked up an impressive $80 million in revenues — along with 25 million registered players. 
Indie game developer Messhof's latest 8-bit thriller, Surprise Bullfight , is now available on Adult Swim Games. You may remember Messhof's work from Pipedreamz or Nidhogg , but the new title's plot is very unique indeed: you're a forest gnome tasked with supplying a giant with bull hearts 
When Apple announced the new iPad at the beginning of the month most people were ecstatic, it seemed as if the new iDevice did everything much better than the previous ones, not only does it posses more processing power, it also boasts a retina display. There is however a specific group of people that are not too happy about the great strides of the new iPad, these are the indie game developers . 
When Phil Schiller took the stage last week to talk about Apple's new A5X SoC, he threw up a slide claiming that it has four times the graphics performance of Nvidia's competing Tegra 3. 
Whether your tastes fall along the lines of Zaxxon , Super Mario World , or Uncharted 2: Among Thieves , you'll find games you love at The Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 
Last year Epic Games showed the next-generation "Samaritan" demo, which used a litany of new technologies to create one of the most impressive graphics presentations to date. At that time, Samaritan ran on three high-end Nvidia graphic cards and a power source the size of a cinder block 
Earlier today, Apple revealed the next generation iPad to the world. As many expected, the updated tablet, which will hit stores next week, will come with a higher resolution screen (2048x1536) and a more powerful, quad-core graphics processor 
The Game Developers Choice Awards are voted on by developers for developers. It's a chance for the members of the games industry to reward their peers, to say this is the best work happening in video games today. 
