"The word 'games' is limiting us...it has great appeal, it's very sexy, but I think we're doing something bigger." Asi Burak, Games for Change
iPhone 5: These Game Developers Set to Benefit
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Develops, markets, publishes, and distributes game software and content for video game consoles, personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and electronic readers, hand held gameplayers, and ...
Kapitall Blog (blog)
New Dishonored Developer Diary Discusses “End Game”
WebProNews
Where last week's dev diary video focused on immersing players in the steampunk dystopia that thedevelopers have created created, this week's video discusses what final tweaks the developersare making to the game now that it is finished. It's clear ...
Video Game Quick Hits 9/18/12
Big Shiny Robot!
Capcom, Rockstar, Obsidian, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Square, name any other developerwith some sort of credibility. All of these guys are talking about the next-gen gamesthey're building, but you aren't talking about where we'll be playing them. Even ...
Big Shiny Robot!
Game conference moving to Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
The Game Developers Conference is transforming a long-running event it has held in Austin, Texas, and moving it to Los Angeles. GDC, which holds several events around the world for video game creators, said Monday that next month's GDC Online will be ...
London City Hall to host video game art exhibition
The Guardian (blog)
London's City Hall is set to host a major exhibition of video game art. Running between 22 and 26 October, the free event will feature rare pieces donated by a huge range of publishers and developers: concept art, storyboards and digital images will ...
The Guardian (blog)
Kickstarting video game reboots
MCV
“Kickstarter offers a great funding source for many a quality developer who may otherwise struggle to raise the funds,” said Adrian Barritt, CEO of Pro Pinballdeveloper Silverball Studios. “Many exciting projects will see the light of day that never ...
MCV
Game Republic's Yoshiki Okamoto says he's 'retired' from making console games
The Verge
"With bigger titles, there are so many aspects of development, so many people working on thegame. It's more fitting for me that I work on a game where I can see what's happening, like it was during the beginning of the video game era." Okamoto got out ...
Video: Managing a game studio doesn't have to be like herding cats
Gamasutra
Managing a game studio is never easy, regardless of your team's talent or experience. As Sproing CEO Harald Riegler puts it, leading a group of passionate and diverse developers can sometimes feel like herding cats -- but it doesn't have to be that way.
New Wing Commander Game? Freelancer 2014?
Geek Smash
For those that never had a truly exhilarating experience, one that made the player feel like they were a part of something greater… something that shifted the course of an entire race of people or creatures… where the decisions in the game determined ...
Geek Smash
Behind the Music: How Video Game Soundtracks Are Made
IGN
Behind the Music: How Video Game Soundtracks Are Made. We talk to the team ... While gameplay, graphics and story mechanics are often in the spotlight, a game's soundtrack can enrich the experience like nothing else and make a game into a lasting ...
Bohemia issue statement over devs detained in Greece
GamingBolt (blog)
These included a short video as they drove through the main road passing around the international airport, where in one short part of the video off in the distance some hangars and other buildings of the complex can be seen.” In fact the Greek island ...
GamingBolt (blog)
5 Ridiculously Artsy Video Games
CBS Local
Created by thatgamecompany, a video game developer with only three games to their name but a huge following, Flower lets you be wind. You are a persistent, almost sentient, gust of wind that picks up a single flower petal that eventually turns in to ...
CBS Local
'Borderlands 2' survives on Pandora with a sense of humor
Los Angeles Times
Zer0 takes on Stalker enemies at close range in a scene from the video game"Borderlands 2. ... “Borderlands” was a surprise hit when it came out in 2009, anddeveloper Gearbox (plus publisher 2K Games) have invested heavily in expanding the world.
Los Angeles Times
Fruit Ninja Developer Dojo: trade secrets from a global casual gaming success
e27
In a rare opportunity, Singapore designers and developers were treated over the weekend to a visit from the team of Halfbrick, one of Australia's largest game development studios. During theDeveloper Dojo, with networking and workshop sessions co ...
Boston Festival of Indie Games, Cambridge, Sept. 22
Boston.com (blog)
Here is the perfect opportunity for teenage (and adult) gamers to enjoy a full day of free, cutting-edgevideo games. On Sept. 22, Boston Indies, a community of dedicated independent game developers in Massachusetts, and MIT Game Lab presents Boston ...
Developers discuss possible Snake appearance in Metal Gear Rising ...
Examiner.com
When asked about who will win in a fight between Snake and Raiden, Kojima Productions' Yuji Korekado and Platinum Games' Atsushi Inabu made a few interesting comments during a videointerview with Game Trailers. You can check out the latest ...
Rovio releases video of 'Bad Piggies' gameplay
Ubergizmo
We already know that the game is set to launch for Android, iOS, PC and Mac on September 27th. Rovio has now released a video which gives a first sneak peek at the actual gameplay of 'Bad Piggies.' The game-developer is known for producing physics ...
Composers at New York Comic Con 2012
Gamersyndrome
Jason Graves is a British Academy Award-winning composer who has brought his passion for music to video game franchises such as Dead Space, Prey, Resistance, Star Trek, City of Heroes and Command & Conquer. His music has ... In 2005, Cris teamed up ...
Interactive Facebook Video Plugs Upcoming Release Of Resident Evil 6
AllFacebook
The 3.8 million-plus Facebook users who like the Resident Evil page can now access Shared Nightmare, an interactive video created by Capcom, developer of the iconicgaming franchise, and digital marketing and communications agency Crush, ...Shared ...
AllFacebook
UK students break 'games jam' world record [Asian News International]
Equities.com
A games jam is a gathering of video game developers. Participants are put into teams and challenged to build games within a time frame. This games jam was held at Bedfordshire University in Luton at the weekend, and these games had to be built for ...
Bohemia offers defense for Arma 3 devs arrested in Greece
Ars Technica
Last week, it looked like the world of video game development, of all things, might be the cause an international incident when two employees at Czech developer Bohemia Interactive were arrested by Greek officials on suspicion of spying on military ...
Football Manager 2013
CCL Online
The developers behind the latest edition to the series release a bundle of video blogs about the game. Published on Tuesday 18th September 2012; Posted by Peter Thomson · 0 comments. Now I'm not one for knowledge on the whole football management ...
CCL Online
Hitman Absolution Tools Of The Trade Trailer (video)
Geeky gadgets
The new Hitman Absolution game will be arriving on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 console later this year on November 20th. But to whet your appetite a little more before its release, games developers IO Interactive has released a new trailer showing ...
Geeky gadgets
Zynga buys game company A Bit Lucky
Live 5 News
AP National News VideoMore>> ... NEW YORK (AP) - Zynga Inc. has bought A Bit Lucky, adeveloper of online games focused on "mid-core" titles that are a bit more serious than the light-hearted "-Ville" titles Zynga is best known for. San Francisco-based ...
iTunes Users Are Upset About This Blatant Mario Clone
Kotaku
Another day, another beloved video game gets cloned by an iOS developer out to make a quick buck. The current victim is Nintendo, a company that is seeing their lovely 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land pilfered by the creators of 3D Cartoon Land Safari.
High School Senior Frustrated by Lack of Holistic Information
GameDev.net
Why is it that with pretty much every college I check out, the “design” major is either brand new, or at least years and years younger than “Game art” and “Game development”? It almost seems ... I hope this self gives you all an idea of what I'm ...
Facebook Rival GREE Acquires Mobile Developer App Ant Studios In Latest ...
International Business Times
Already focused on selling virtual goods and other freemium services and mobilegames, GREE is angling for continued growth by securing first-party development to expand its user base beyond Japan. Must Read. Bangkok Protest ... And given Monday's news ...
International Business Times
Autodesk Gameware Navigation: New Artificial Intelligence Middleware
Dexigner
A successor of Kynapse AI middleware, which empowers the creation of believablevideo game character behaviors, Navigation has been re-engineered to offer full source code access, a more accessible API and remote visual debugging tools. To date ...
Dexigner
Champions visit EA SPORTS
Fifa.com
FIFA 12 set a new sales record in the gaming industry, becoming the most successful sports video game of all time and FIWC12 reached over one million participants shattering its previous record in the Guinness World Records Gamers Edition. In keeping ...
Fifa.com
505 and Starbreeze teaming up for Payday 2 and P13 in 2013
Joystiq
Developer Starbreeze has revealed 505 Games will be its publishing partner for the upcoming sequel to the multiplayer-focused shooter, Payday: The Heist, along with original intellectual property P13, indevelopment for the PSN, XBLA, and PC ...
Minecraft 1.8.2 for XBLA Adds New Food, Fruits, and Other Stuff
Gameranx
4J Studios, the developers of Minecraft for the Xbox Live Arcade have released a newvideo showcasing the features they're implementing into the next update for the XBLA console port, which is slated for release sometime this month. In addition to ...
Gameranx
Exclusive: escapeVektor Developer Working on Nintendo Wii U Game
Aussie-Gamer.com
Australian based development studio Nnooo – the team behind highly acclaimed escapeVektor on Wii – confirmed to Aussie-Gamer this week that the studio is currently working on a Nintendo Wii Ugame. Earlier this year the ... “The whole design on the ...
Forget Rock Band, here's Cello Fortress
Gamasutra
Cello Fortress is a work-in-progress by Proun developer and Ronimo designer Joost van Dongen, and as far as I'm aware, it's the first video game to incorporate a classical music instrument (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!) into the gameplay. The ...
Steve Jobs's seven key decisions
Macworld
Benj Edwards is a freelance writer who specializes in computer and video game history. He is also... I don't include some of his most important decisions—for example, the ones to pursue thedevelopment of innovative new products such as the iMac, OS ...
WMS offers two new slot games
Lake County News Sun
The Spider-Man game features bonus rounds that include video and audio clips from the original film trilogy, WMS said. “Our game developers have done an excellent job integrating the proven capabilities of motion chair technology to deliver the thrills ...
Mobile games can be console quality and tell cool stories, too
Appolicious
Horn feels like a game designed for the traditional video game market. It's expansive and ...Gameloft, another mobile developer, often creates games of roughly the same size and scope as Horn, but they often tend to look a bit sparse. Their graphics ...
A Game About One of World War Two's Saddest Moments
Kotaku
It's a sad story in a war full of them, and a futile one at that, which doesn't make it sound exactly ideal for adaptation into a video game, but Polish developers DMD Enterprise think otherwise. They recently released Uprising44, a blend of shooter ...
Sword Of Fargoal 2 Aims To Bring C64 Adventure To Modern Era
Inside Mac Games
Computer Gaming World magazine even listed Sword of Fargoal as one of the “Top 150 Best Video Games of All Time.” A few years ago I teamed up with ace developerPaul Pridham (a developer with 30 years of experience who created Saucelifter and the ...
Inside Mac Games
Dishonored developer video discusses 'End Game' | VG247
By Stephany Nunneley
Dishonored developer video discusses 'End Game'. Dishonored's latest developer video talks about 'End Game' in the Arkane actioner. You can listen as the team discusses the “early conceptual stage” and how it brought it into a “world ready ...
VG247
Dishonored's Final Developer Documentary Video is the "End Game"
Arkane Studios has released the fourth and final part of its developer documentary video series for Dishonored and it's aptly titled, "End Game." We once again see the developers talk about their first-person action game, but this time, it's not to ...
Gameranx
Dishonored: 'End Game' developer diary - Computer and Video ...Dishonored: Bethesda has launched a new Dishonored developer diary titled ' End Game ...
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Game development, News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Kotaku
He Went To War So He Could Make Video Games. Getting the Bugs Out of QA Might Mean BetterVideo Games. Dear Game Developers, We're Not All Idealized ...
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A former video game developer launches @mural_ly, a new ...
A former video game developer launches @mural_ly, a new platform for creative brainstorminghttp://t.co/Xapn1HsI via @FastCoCreate by FastCoDesign ...
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Dishonored: 'End Game' developer diary - Computer and Video ...The fourth and final video in a developer documentary series sees the team at Arkane Studios ...
m.computerandvideogames.com/.../dishonored-end-game-dev...
Video: What to do when your game suffers an inevitable PR crisis ...
Video: What to do when your game suffers an inevitable PR crisis. 10 sep 12 - 21 26. No matter who you are or how talented your team is, every game developer ...
www.gamesindustry.com/industry-news/detail/249011
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