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US Adults Don't Know Cybersecurity Career Options
US Adults Don't Know Cybersecurity Career Options
New survey finds adults not familiar with 11 different cybersecurity job titles
July 23, 2018
Roblox on track to pay in-game devs $70M in 2018, more than double 2017's payout
Roblox on track to pay in-game devs $70M in 2018, more than double 2017's payout
Roblox Corporation says that, if everything stays its course, it could pay out as much as $70 million at the end of 2018 alone to developers that create games and content for the social platform Roblox.
July 23, 2018
Book Excerpt: One game dev's quest for fight-free fashion agency
Book Excerpt: One game dev's quest for fight-free fashion agency
In this chapter of 'Game Devs & Others: Tales from the Margins,' dev Vanessa Paugh writes about how she joined the industry because she couldn't find her 'perfect game' -- so she set out to make it.
July 23, 2018
Get a job: Cloud Imperium Games is hiring a Principal Character Artist
Get a job: Cloud Imperium Games is hiring a Principal Character Artist
Cloud Imperium Games is looking for an experienced Principal Character Artist with a passion for their craft to help fill a persistent universe with characters, costumes, armor suits and alien life forms.
July 23, 2018
Keywords moves into game analytics with $1.5M Yokozuna purchase
Keywords moves into game analytics with $1.5M Yokozuna purchase
Yokozuna uses a range of self-learning, predictive analytic models that draw on AI and machine learning tech to predict individual player behavior and create adaptive responses to in-game changes.
July 23, 2018
Nintendo files lawsuit against two popular ROM websites
Nintendo files lawsuit against two popular ROM websites
The Japanese outfit has suggested both sites "are built almost entirely on the brazen and mass-scale infringement of Nintendo’s intellectual property rights."
July 23, 2018
Layoffs at OnRush developer after racer fails to gain traction
Layoffs at OnRush developer after racer fails to gain traction
Anonymous sources say the studio has been "decapitated" following the latest redundancies, and claim that a number of senior and lead staff members have been asked to re-interview for positions.
July 23, 2018
MercurySteam rebuilds and rebrands episodic shooter as free-to-play title
MercurySteam rebuilds and rebrands episodic shooter as free-to-play title
Spanish developer MercurySteam has rebuilt and rebranded its episodic online shooter Raiders of the Broken Planet as a free-to-play title called Spacelords.
July 23, 2018
Building a set piece on a budget: Designing Fe's deer colossus
Building a set piece on a budget: Designing Fe's deer colossus
Game director Andreas Beijer and lead artist Martin Rasmusson walk through the process of developing and iterating the big deer colossus set piece in their charming platformer Fe.
July 23, 2018
Video: How to get your game noticed in 2018
Video: How to get your game noticed in 2018
In this GDC 2018 session, No More Robots' Mike Rose discusses what currently works (and what doesn't) when attempting to sell a game in 2018.
July 23, 2018
The evolution of water rendering in video games
The evolution of water rendering in video games
A new video by Digital Foundry dives into the evolution of video game water rendering beginning with 8-bit and 16-bit waves.
July 23, 2018
How piracy led to GOG encouraging DRM-free releases
How piracy led to GOG encouraging DRM-free releases
Noclip recently published a video interviewing people behind the digital distribution service GOG, starting off by discussing how piracy in early Poland lead to an anti-DRM mentality for the company.
July 23, 2018