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Get as many people to play your game as possible to allow for the social and viral hooks to work. So, it's easy to see how a freemium model that takes away the number one hurdle to a consumer, cost, is attractive to developers and publishers."The full feature -- now live on NBA Live Mobile Coins Gamasutra -- contains more comments from Breslin, insights from PopCap and Gameloft, and statistics on the uptake of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 devices.

 

Goichi Suda -- a.k.a. Suda51 -- of Grasshopper Manufacture has been discussing his move into social gaming, noting that he has many concepts for social and mobile games and hopes to release all of Nostalrius Gold them at some point.News emerged yesterday that the industry veteran has signed up with mobile social game network and developer DeNA, and will be producing social gaming titles for the mobile social network Mobage.DeNA revealed that Suda51's first release will be a

 

game based off his popular No More Heroes franchise. In a press conference today, as translated by Andriasang, the creator said that he wants to make the most violent social game ever."We're aiming to make it the social game with the most blood," he said. He also noted that he hopes to bring the final product overseas once it is released.Suda51 went on to reveal that he has "around 100 social game concepts" ready, and hopes to release each of these one at a time via

 

It was also revealed earlier in the month that Suda is working with Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima on a radio drama based on Kojima's cult hit adventure title Snatcher.Microsoft has donated a collection of mmogo hundreds of items from throughout its history in the video game market to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG), the organization announced today.The donation includes prototypes.