Major Chinese-headquartered online game publisher Shanda Games announced a 10% revenue increase, but a 16% decrease in profits to $44.8 million in the second half of 2010. Overall, net revenues for the firm, which is one of China's largest in terms of MMO and casual web game operation, increased 4% quarter-over-quarter and increased 10% year-over-year to RMB1,362.5 million (US$200.6 million). However, due to increased costs, Shanda saw profit decrease to RMB304.3 million (US$44.8 million), compared ...

Organizers of the Fifth Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge announced that the game submission deadline for this year's event has been extended to September 30th, giving developers two additional weeks to polish up their entries. The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge offers students and independent developers a chance to show off their submitted training applications to an expected crowd of over 18,000 attendees at the upcoming Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in ...

Today's release of iOS 4.1 brought with it the first availability of Apple's long-promised Game Center App, which provides platform-wide social gaming and networking functionality to many iPhone and iPod Touches. Though Game Center users can currently build a profile and connect with other friends using the service, as of this writing the App doesn't list any games that support Game Center's other functions, which include Leaderboards, Achievements, matchmaking and multiplayer gaming. Users in the ...

Founded in October of last year, Snail Games USA, the U.S. division of major Chinese online game publisher Snail Games, is the latest developer to implement the free-to-play online gaming model in the West. The company's first Western release, Heroes of Gaia, was released in November and has since accumulated over one million active monthly users. Coming later this year, Ministry of War will be Snail Games USA's second free-to-play release. It's a browser-based real-time ...

Every week, sister iPhone and iPad site FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store, and this chart is now available on Gamasutra. This week's U.S. revenue charts see Ultimate Spider-Man and Slice It! leading sales on the iPhone, as Angry Birds HD and Madden NFL 11 top the iPad charts. These charts allow end users to see who is making the most ...