Pakistani game developer joins Atari and Kabam

A Pakistani social game developer is poised to join global gaming giants Atari and Kabam after accreditation from 6waves – the largest Facebook game publisher in the world.

According to a news release issued here, Islamabad’s White Rabbit Studios is the only Facebook gaming studio from Pakistan – and in fact the entire South Asian region – to be featured in the list of key social game developers. As a result of this partnership, the company will gain access to more than 30 million users in 6waves’ gigantic Facebook user network, said the release.

White Rabbit Studios is a three-year-old game development company, primarily and solely focused on content creation. It is funded by a prominent Pakistani-American entrepreneur and first came to the fore in early 2010 with the release of Pakistan’s first social game on Facebook – Feline Frenzy – the release added.

Read more: The Express Tribune

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Steve Jobs Tricked Young Wozniak Into An Atari Game Scam

[ via Chip Hazard ] 14 Dec
Ever since the biography of Steve jobs by Walter Isaacson released, many aspects of Jobs life have been revealed and in the latest development, it’s discovered that Steve Jobs always wanted to be at the top and always wanted to take all the glory.

Today in documentay about Steve Jobs entitled “ Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy ” , Steve Wozniak seemed pretty hurt by Jobs action and said that if Jobs would have only said that he needed the money, I would have happily agree with him and then he could take the share all he wanted.

Woz also talked to Radio 4 this morning about the documentary regarding Jobs, and said: 

I just wanted to be in engineering only – I never wanted to run a company, never wanted to run things, step on other people – Steve very clearly did, and wanted to be a top executive and a really important thinker in the world…. Apple does a lot of conservative [things] – we control things – and has very little tolerance…Even if an engineer told a friend something and it got out… you’re fired!

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Atari veteran named AIAS Pioneer

Full Story: EDGE 18 Nov

"Ed Logg, part of Atari's coin-op division in the 1970s and 1980s who was lead developer on Gauntlet, will be given the Pioneer Award by the Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences (AIAS)," reports EDGE.

Logg, also co-designer of Centipede and Asteroids, will be presented with the award by Mark Cerny, a consultant who worked alongside Logg at Atari, at a Las Vegas ceremony in February 2012.

Read full story and read what Logg has to say about his nomination.

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