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Flight Simulator Tries Free-to-Play

January 5, 2012

JAN. 5, 2012 • The veteran Flight Simulator franchise has been on hiatus since Microsoft Corp. shut down its Aces Game Studio in 2009. The series is returning this spring, however, as a free-to-play game for PC users. Now simply called Flight, the aerial simulator will feature up-to-da.....

Interview: Corsair Still Sets Own Course

November 26, 2011January 13, 2023

NOV. 26, 2011 • One of the side effects of video game cycles that stretch on for a decade or more is that the game technology torch is passed to personal computers. While console development is locked into a stationary hardware specification, developers who want to push into advanced content territory can only do so on PCs. There’s a stable core of gamers out there who are well aware of this technology shift, and who modify,.....

Interview: Embracing HTML5 With Pangalore

November 25, 2011

NOV. 25, 2011 • The launching of another social game company is not such a novel event in the waning weeks of 2011. What is novel is when that new developer, in this case Pangalore, launched totally committed to the HTML5 platform mere weeks after Adobe announced suspen.....

Kinect Accelerator Program Launched

November 19, 2011

NOV. 19, 2011 • Having initially discouraged most non-gaming applications that took advantage of the Kinect motion controller, Microsoft has decided to go into the other direction by launching its Kinect Accelerator program to encourage innovative Kinect produc.....

No More Xbox Live Auto Renew

November 11, 2011

NOV. 11, 2011 • After years of lobbying by consumers, Microsoft Entertainment used a dashboard update to enable a new option to disable automatic renewal to Xbox Live. The previous policy of forcing automatic account renewal was seen as an account retention measure. .....

No More Flash Player for Mobile

November 9, 2011

NOV. 9, 2011 • Adobe Systems said it will no longer develop new versions of its Flash Player in the future for mobile browsers in favor of HTML5. The switch to HTML5 was made to devote more resources to further advanced gaming and premium video on mobile platforms. .....

Nintendo 3DS Sales Reach 6.68M

October 27, 2011December 15, 2022

OCT. 27, 2011 • Nintendo 3DS sales reached 6.68 million units since the system’s February launch in Japan. To boost sales, the suggested retail price was dropped to $180 from $250 last August. Nintendo said that it had sold 8.13 million units of 3DS software worldwide to date. By March 2012 the company projects it will have sold 16 million 3DS systems, and 50 million software units, the latter a reduction from the originally estimated 70 million units......

Sony Buys Out Sony Ericsson

October 27, 2011December 15, 2022

OCT. 27, 2011 • Sony Corp. is buying out its Swedish partner for €1.05 billion ($1.45 billion) to assume full control of the Sony Ericsson mobile phone joint venture. The acquisition transfers a range of patents to Sony, and better enables the consumer electronics maker to better int.....

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