GamesIndustry.biz Newsletter - 17th August 2010

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Today's top stories

Realtime Worlds enters administration

15:55 - APB developer collapses following the online game's commercial problems

Valve: "Everything that we do competes with Half-Life 2"

08:00 - Lombardi also says per-platform marketing is "old school" and claims no Linux Steam in the works

THQ: "Exciting time" for Wii market

11:00 - Publisher aims to provide "entirely new and unique" gameplay with launch of uDraw add-on

Today's feature

Valve On Steam: Part Two

Jason Holtman and Doug Lombardi talk marketing, Portal 2 and Steam for Linux

The rest of today's news

November 10 release date for Kinect in Europe

08:54 - Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight also announced at gamescom

Bigpoint increases DevLounge revenue split

09:57 - Content creators will now receive 70% of revenues for using online company's upload interface

Blizzard wins $88m private server ruling

10:26 - Pirate made $3 million in micro-transactions with community of half a million

Former Rockstar Vienna devs reveal new plans

15:28 - Socialspiel studio names first title as social boardgame, Push

Bankrupt Playlogic subsidiary to publish game in Asia

14:26 - Fairytale Fights released episodically by Playlogic International NV

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