of Facebook caused a strategic, permanent shift towards the casual market, and that's where we wanted to be.""After six years, we could see the writing was
on the wall for $30 million budget games, and wanted to
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company focusing our sharp technical skill on games which could appeal to the
masses, on devices everyone has in their pocket."It was revealed last year that
THQ had closed a number of its Australian studios, including Blue Tongue, and
laid off around 200 employees.
Newsbrief: NaturalMotion Games has reportedly hired Dan Borthwick, formerly common technology lead at Electronic Arts' social game subsidiary Playfish, to
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social game veterans who have recently departed from EA, including Playfish's
former London headquarters GM and VP John Earner, Playfish CTO Sami Lababidi, EA
Interactive head Barry Cottle, and EA Interactive VP Sebastien de
.One of the founding developers for Playfish, Borthwick will oversee the London studio's efforts producing free-to-play iPhone and Android titles,
according to a report from UK trade site Develop. Its previous releases include
My Horse, Jenga, and the Backbreaker series.Like a lot of people in the gaming
world, I got an interesting email from Gabe Newell last week.The Steam hacking
incident of last November, he said, was worse than they initially thought it
was. And while there still was
direct evidence that credit card information had been accessed, a backup file containing that information (albeit encrypted) was obtained by the person or
persons who had broken into the system. It was disquieting information delivered
in an oddly comforting manner ? and while the service has 40 million user
accounts under its control, there wasn't a lot of outrage in the forums and
throughout the online world. It was a curious juxtaposition to what Sony had
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