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Inside the Fire TV: What's Amazon planning for games?
Inside the Fire TV: What's Amazon planning for games?
Amazon's Michael Frazzini and Ian Vogel explain what the company's expectations are for its new device's impact on the game market -- and what they hope to accomplish with internally developed titles.
April 8, 2014
Apogee Software: When the sultans of shareware went retail
Apogee Software: When the sultans of shareware went retail
In this reprint from the February 1995 issue of Game Developer magazine, editor-at-large Alexander Antoniades describes Apogee Software's attempt to move beyond shareware development.
April 8, 2014
Video: #1ReasonToBe panel inspires standing ovation at GDC 2014
Video: #1ReasonToBe panel inspires standing ovation at GDC 2014
GDC 2014 saw the triumphant return of one of the conference’s most popular sessions: the #1ReasonToBe panel, a raucous celebration and exploration of gender and alternative voices in games.
April 7, 2014
IGF China 2014 seeking pan-Pacific indie game submissions
IGF China 2014 seeking pan-Pacific indie game submissions
The Independent Games Festival China – which will take place in October alongside GDC China in Shanghai – is accepting indie game entries from the pan-Pacific area from now through July 25.
April 7, 2014
Meet Joonas Turner, Vlambeer's sound guy
Meet Joonas Turner, Vlambeer's sound guy
I was introduced to Joonas Turner at GDC last month by Vlambeer's Jan Willem Nijman. "You need to talk to this guy," he told me. "He's doing the sound for our games."
April 7, 2014
Nvidia launches GeForce Experience 2.0
Nvidia launches GeForce Experience 2.0
Nvidia today launched GeForce Experience 2.0 -- the next big step for its graphics card tools and drivers which includes numerous updates and optimizations for Twitch, Shadowplay and GameStream support.
April 7, 2014
This Week in Video Game Criticism: Of Assassins and Game Jams
This Week in Video Game Criticism: Of Assassins and Game Jams
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics including the meltdown of GAME_JAM and what Assassin's Creed gets right about race.
April 7, 2014
Chris Crawford pitches game that may help put a ship on the moon
Chris Crawford pitches game that may help put a ship on the moon
Game industry veteran Chris Crawford pitched a game, Rocket Science, that has been chosen as one of three finalists of the Games for Change Festival's Shoot for the Moon design challenge.
April 7, 2014
Get a job: Vicarious Visions is looking to hire a game designer
Get a job: Vicarious Visions is looking to hire a game designer
Skylanders Swap Force developer Vicarious Visions is on the hunt for a game designer to join the team in their Albany, NY office.
April 7, 2014
E.T. landfill excavation finally given the go-ahead
E.T. landfill excavation finally given the go-ahead
During the video game crash of 1983, it was reported that Atari buried millions of copies of video game E.T. in a landfill. Now a group of film companies have been given the go-ahead to dig the site up.
April 4, 2014
Adam Orth's Adrift finds a publisher
Adam Orth's Adrift finds a publisher
>Adr1ft, the game prototype from Adam Orth inspired by the waves of abuse he received following comments about Xbox One's (since canceled) always-online requirement, has found a publisher.
April 4, 2014
Square Enix Collective now open to all developers
Square Enix Collective now open to all developers
The Square Enix Collective platform, through which Crackdown 2 studio Ruffian Games recently pitched its latest video game concept, is now publicly open for any developer to submit their original game ideas.
April 4, 2014