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How a simple Madden-like name change overcame Marvel Heroes' Metacritic woes
How a simple Madden-like name change overcame Marvel Heroes' Metacritic woes
We talk to Gazillion CEO David Brevik about how Marvel Heroes was successfully reborn after a lackluster launch. The secret: an annualized model akin to Microsoft software and EA sports games.
Sept. 3, 2015
Get a job: Nuclear Division seeks a Game Engineer
Get a job: Nuclear Division seeks a Game Engineer
The new mobile game company founded by industry veterans (and funded in part by Respawn cofounder Vince Zampella) is looking for a coder to serve as a game engineer at its studio in Los Angeles.
Sept. 2, 2015
QC Games is a new studio from BioWare expats who cut a deal with Nexon
QC Games is a new studio from BioWare expats who cut a deal with Nexon
A number of BioWare expats have joined together to launch QC Games, an Austin-based online game studio that has signed a deal with Nexon America to publish its inaugural project.
Sept. 2, 2015
Now you can take apart Epic's UE4 VR tech demo to see how it works
Now you can take apart Epic's UE4 VR tech demo to see how it works
Heads up, UE4 devs: Epic has made the "Showdown" UE4 tech demo it brought to Oculus Connect last year freely available to download and deconstruct.
Sept. 2, 2015
Report: The world's most popular, most profitable iOS games are 3 years old
Report: The world's most popular, most profitable iOS games are 3 years old
A new App Annie report posits that 2 games released in 2012 are the most popular, most profitable iOS games of all time, and the top 10 most popular iOS games of all time are all at least 2 years old.
Sept. 2, 2015
Classic Postmortem: Deadly Premonition
Classic Postmortem: Deadly Premonition
The open world survival horror comedy game Deadly Premonition turns five this month. We celebrate by reprinting an exhaustive Game Developer magazine postmortem of this cult classic.
Sept. 1, 2015
Bringing a 2D puzzler to VR in Fantastic Contraption for Vive
Bringing a 2D puzzler to VR in Fantastic Contraption for Vive
The developers of Fantastic Contraption explain what they learned about best practices for VR development when they ported their simple 2D puzzle game into a 3D experience for Vive.
Sept. 1, 2015
Video: How to minimize simulation sickness in your VR games
Video: How to minimize simulation sickness in your VR games
Don't make your players sick! At GDC Europe, researcher Ben-Lewis Evans shares design guidelines VR and non-VR developers can follow to reduce the risk of simulation sickness from their games.
Sept. 1, 2015
Get a job: Red 5 Studios is hiring a Lead UI Programmer
Get a job: Red 5 Studios is hiring a Lead UI Programmer
Firefall developer Red 5 Studios is looking for an experienced UI coder to join the team at the studios' Irvine, CA offices and work with the programming team to improve the game's front-end.
Sept. 1, 2015
Beating Dark Souls? Hard. Designing 'Twitch Plays Dark Souls?' SUPER hard.
Beating Dark Souls? Hard. Designing 'Twitch Plays Dark Souls?' SUPER hard.
Masochists rejoice! Someone turned the punishingly difficult Dark Souls into the even more challenging crowdplay experience Twitch Plays Dark Souls. He tells us how he made it playable.
Sept. 1, 2015
Making VR games reminds Infinity Ward expats of PS1 game dev glory days
Making VR games reminds Infinity Ward expats of PS1 game dev glory days
Reload Studios CEO James Chung chats with Gamasutra about what the L.A.-based studio staffed by former Call of Duty devs has learned about making virtual reality FPS games that don't make people sick.
Sept. 1, 2015
Valve now selling all four Mad Max movies on Steam
Valve now selling all four Mad Max movies on Steam
In an unusual bit of cross-promotion, Steam is now selling high-definition digital copies of all four Mad Max movies alongside Avalanche Studio's new Max Max video game.
Sept. 1, 2015