in revenue a year -- $457 million in its most recent quarter -- and there are ten times as many people in the developed world as in Japan, he reflected. "That's what's at stake here."After being unceremoniously sold by Viacom earlier this year, independent rhythm game maker Harmonix is expecting to book $100 million in revenue for 2011, driven by the FIFA Coins success of the Dance Central franchise.Harmonix COO Florian Hunziker told Bloomberg in a recent interview that he expected the
would contribute to Harmonix's most profitable year ever.The company has sold over 2.5 million copies of the original Dance Central since its release last November, making it the second-best-selling Kinect game behind Kinect Sports. A multiplayer sequel to the game was released last month.Harmonix, which released iOS music and video VidRhythm in Cheap NBA 2K18 MT August, has recently started publicly hinting at a planned "fundamental creative reinterpretation" for its best-selling Rock Band
.But Hunziker told Bloomberg that the company was also working on "multiple new music games" with no resemblance to the Dance Central and Rock Band franchises.Hunziker also said that high initial licensing fees for playable songs in the company's extensive downloadable catalog have paid off in the long run, as players continue to purchase them years after their initial release.
In a new Gamasutra feature interview, Borderlands concept designer Scott Kester explains how the switch in art style midway through development turned on the mmogo "idea bubble" for the whole team."We just really wanted to be us, so we didn't want to be somebody else," said Kester, when asked if the switch from a realistic style to the series' now-signature rough comic book art style was liberating. "And really, when we looked at the artists on the team
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