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[This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Ben Abraham, as he's assailed by Skyrim's dragons, on topics including the meaning and import of virtual death in Demon's and Dark Souls.] A Nordic tundra.

Activision Blizzard majority shareholder Vivendi has sold 35 million of its shares in order to raise $427 million in capital, according to reports published Tuesday.

[Gamasutra rounds up the latest news in the world of App Store gaming, featuring standout releases like Asteroids: Gunner, Gangstar Rio, Rocket Riot, and EPOCH.] - Atari's Asteroids Resurfaces As Twin-Stick Shooter "Asteroids: Gunner is a free-to-play twin-stick shooter for iOS device

["The fact that the Xbox was even able to survive in such a competitive environment was a victory in itself," says Gamasutra EIC Kris Graft in this retrospective on Xbox's 10th birthday.] "Xbox is our next-generation video game console that is going to produce games that people have never seen

According to Philip Holt, co-founder of the social gaming startup Row Sham Bow, modern social games still have a lot of room to grow.

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Uber Entertainment software engineer Forrest Smith looks at how critical hits are handled in his team's upcoming game Super Monday Night Combat and in other titles.] Critical hits are common in many games.

A new estimate of the worldwide mobile market shows Android phones represented more than half of all new mobile phones sold in the third quarter of 2011.

[As part of his monthly analysis of video game sales figures, Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews breaks down public data from EA, Ubisoft, Activision and other publishers to determine digital sales growth, and how their sales are split between game platforms and geographical territories.] As par

The second annual STEM Video Game Challenge has begun accepting game ideas and prototypes from students and educators in a contest designed to encourage science and math education.

Organizers of the fourth annual GDC China, which concluded Monday, November 14 in Shanghai, have announced that more than 3,000 international attendees were present over the three-day event, marking an all-time high for this branch of the Game Developers Conference.