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Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2010-02-09

February 9, 2010 |

  • Surprised to see Average Selling Price of an XBLA game up by 10% last year to $9.12 http://bit.ly/aEN1Aq #
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  • Bigpoint investors won't sell until its worth "one billion dollars!", says BusinessWeek http://bit.ly/aKqve9 #
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  • Going to be at Casual Connect in Hamburg next week (on a panel on Thursday). Anyone going and want to meet up? #
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  • tarungupta

    Varun Nair is coming this February to India's first and independent annual summit for the game development ecosystem – India Game Developer Summit (http://www.gamedevelopersummit.com) and will talk about designed sound and their uses, foley and real world sounds and its importance in enhancing and adding depth to game play. He will teach dialogues, learning and adapting from other media and forms of entertainment such as films, theatre & music. He will also cover common queries on making a brief and time and asset management. The talk will also cover technicalities and their creative applications including choosing the 'right' sound, and space, perspective, timbre and pitch, quality, delivery and working formats.

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