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Get a job: Sucker Punch is hiring a Character Artist
Get a job: Sucker Punch is hiring a Character Artist
InFamous: Second Son studio Sucker Punch is hiring a "seasoned" character artist to work (with a focus realistic human anatomy, likenesses and clothing design) at its Bellevue, WA studio.
March 22, 2016
Video: How the studio behind Bastion creates atmosphere in games
Video: How the studio behind Bastion creates atmosphere in games
At GDC 2012, Supergiant's Greg Kasavin hopped onstage to explain how the (then) seven-person team went about creating an atmospheric game on a modest budget: the lauded 2011 action-RPG Bastion.
March 22, 2016
From AppStore Reject to AppStore Featured
From AppStore Reject to AppStore Featured
Today marks the first year since Kill the Plumber was conceptualized and here are the steps I took to market the game from development to release on 3 different stores.
March 22, 2016
From Total War to Assassin's Creed: Music from my GDC Talk
From Total War to Assassin's Creed: Music from my GDC Talk
This article expands on content from the GDC talk, "From Total War to Assassin's Creed: Music for Mobile Games." The talk explored the role of music in portable games. Included: additional discussion & full length streaming tracks for illustration.
March 22, 2016
Revealing your game can be a nightmare - an emotional postmortem of Book of Demons announcement
Revealing your game can be a nightmare - an emotional postmortem of Book of Demons announcement
11 days ago we unveiled Book of Demons to the world. The reveal was an emotional rollercoaster for our whole team, so I decided to share some of my thoughts on what went good and what went bad with the most important reveal in the history of our studio.
March 22, 2016
SWIFT to Warn Banks on Cybersecurity
SWIFT to Warn Banks on Cybersecurity
SWIFT to Warn Banks on Cybersecurity. Fall-out from Bangladesh Bank hack continues
March 21, 2016
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) vs Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) vs Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Many colleagues, customers, and Cisco partners have asked me, “Why isn’t Cisco AMP for Endpoints included in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for Endpoint
March 21, 2016
In the wake of record-breaking attendance, GDC reveals 2017 dates
In the wake of record-breaking attendance, GDC reveals 2017 dates
The 30th edition of GDC has come to a close, and in its wake organizers confirm it hosted over 27,000 attendees (a new record!) and will return (with VRDC!) in 2017 from February 27th to March 3rd.
March 21, 2016
Xbox survey hints at digital trade-in plans
Xbox survey hints at digital trade-in plans
Microsoft is flirting with the idea of a digital trade-in scheme that would let Xbox owners "sell back" their digital purchases for a slice of store credit.
March 21, 2016
Disney sees 'great opportunity' in the overcrowded mobile market
Disney sees 'great opportunity' in the overcrowded mobile market
"The handwringing and the bearishness is way overwrought. To me, mobile is becoming a real business," Disney Interactive's Chris Heatherly told GamesBeat at GDC last week.
March 21, 2016
Punch Club surpasses 300k copies sold -- and 1.6 million pirated
Punch Club surpasses 300k copies sold -- and 1.6 million pirated
Moreover, TinyBuild chief Alex Nichiporchik makes a point of calling out specific regions of the world where fellow devs who take the time to localize their game may see spikes in pirated copies.
March 21, 2016
Here's a look at the original design pitch document for Diablo
Here's a look at the original design pitch document for Diablo
Over the weekend game designer David Brevik published a scan of the original 1994 design proposal Condor, Inc. (which would later become Blizzard North) used to pitch Diablo to potential publishers.
March 21, 2016