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Tim Schafer, Rami Ismail to be honored at the 2018 GDC Awards!
Tim Schafer, Rami Ismail to be honored at the 2018 GDC Awards!
The duo will be accepting, respectively, the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award and Ambassador Award at this year's Game Developers Choice Awards during GDC 2018!
Jan. 30, 2018
Get a job: Rockstar India is hiring a Lead Programmer
Get a job: Rockstar India is hiring a Lead Programmer
Rockstar India is seeking a Lead Programmer with a strong mix of hands-on programming experience and team management ability.
Jan. 30, 2018
Entertaining players while waiting for matchmaking
Entertaining players while waiting for matchmaking
If high quality matchmaking is important, waiting times to find suitable opponents are often unavoidable. This post discusses the problems we had in Awesomenauts with our initial approach to this and how we made waiting a bit less boring later on.
Jan. 30, 2018
Minimalist Container Library in C (part 2)
Minimalist Container Library in C (part 2)
In this post I show how to use the minimalist container types from my last post to create more advanced data structures.
Jan. 30, 2018
Sony patents show redesigned motion controller
Sony patents show redesigned motion controller
Multiple patents seem to suggest that Sony hasn’t resigned itself to using eight-year-old tech as PlayStation VR’s only motion control option.
Jan. 29, 2018
Following feedback, Ubisoft cancels Rainbow Six Siege price increase plans
Following feedback, Ubisoft cancels Rainbow Six Siege price increase plans
Ubisoft has backed away from earlier plans to replace Rainbow Six Siege’s $40 standard edition with a $60 release after player complaints.
Jan. 29, 2018
Teddy Diefenbach steps down as Square Enix Montreal creative director
Teddy Diefenbach steps down as Square Enix Montreal creative director
Diefenbach joined up with the Lara Croft Go studio back in 2016 and departs now following the apparent cancelation of his team’s project.
Jan. 29, 2018
How The Room devs succeeded on mobile, 'the only option left to us'
How The Room devs succeeded on mobile, 'the only option left to us'
Fresh off the release of The Room: Old Sins, Fireproof Games' Barry Meade chats with Gamasutra about what the studio has learned in ten years of game dev, and how it stumbled into success on mobile.
Jan. 29, 2018
Video: How artists embraced change in BioShock Infinite
Video: How artists embraced change in BioShock Infinite
In this GDC 2014 session, artist Gavin Goulden discusses the development of Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite and BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea in the context of an asset pipeline.
Jan. 29, 2018
After nearly a decade, MMO Alganon shuts down servers
After nearly a decade, MMO Alganon shuts down servers
Update Quest Online's MMO Alganon has been offline since November of 2017, and is currently inaccessible from the Steam store page.
Jan. 29, 2018
Microsoft snaps up backend service platform PlayFab
Microsoft snaps up backend service platform PlayFab
Microsoft announced today its acquisition of PlayFab, a backend cloud-based service that hosts live games designed to be used by developers across all platforms (PC, mobile, and console).
Jan. 29, 2018
Get a job: Skydance Interactive is hiring an Art Director
Get a job: Skydance Interactive is hiring an Art Director
Skydance Interactive is looking for a talented Art Director to oversee the entire art vision, pipeline and production on a project as a member of its team in Marina Del Rey, California.
Jan. 29, 2018