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Designing A Production Process: Part 1
Designing A Production Process: Part 1
Part 1 of a 3 part series where I break down our production process on Star Wars: First Assault, which was designed using an iterative production methodology developed by Jeff Morris.
June 30, 2016
What Apps, Games and Stores do Chinese People Use ? -Part I
What Apps, Games and Stores do Chinese People Use ? -Part I
In this series I would introduce to you the most popular mobile Games and Apps in China. In Part one I would focus on Apps and Part two on Games, not decided yet App stores should be included in P2 or I would write a P3 for it.
June 30, 2016
Unexpected Narrative: Part 3
Unexpected Narrative: Part 3
Story can be found in unexpected places in games. In this article series, I will discuss my thoughts on finding narrative in surprising places, and applying those structures to your own games.
June 30, 2016
Ukraine Bank Hit by $10m Cyber Heist - Report
Ukraine Bank Hit by $10m Cyber Heist - Report
Ukraine Bank Hit by $10m Cyber Heist. Swift hackers are at it again
June 29, 2016
9.2 Million More US Healthcare Records Go Up for Sale on the Dark Web
9.2 Million More US Healthcare Records Go Up for Sale on the Dark Web
The plaintext 2GB database has names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth and Social Security Numbers (SSNs).
June 29, 2016
Official UEFA Euro 2016 App Leaks User Data
Official UEFA Euro 2016 App Leaks User Data
User names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers are being transferred over an insecure internet connection.
June 29, 2016
Malware's Role: Wildly Overstated as an Info-Stealing Tool
Malware's Role: Wildly Overstated as an Info-Stealing Tool
99% of post-intrusion cyberattack activities use standard networking and IT tools.
June 29, 2016
Attend GDC Europe and master the art of guerrilla marketing your game
Attend GDC Europe and master the art of guerrilla marketing your game
Ico Partners' Thomas Reisenegger is an experienced PR consultant who's done PR for games like League of Legends, and at GDC Europe he'll share some hard-won lessons on getting your game noticed.
June 29, 2016
Insomniac gets personal with undersea game Song of the Deep
Insomniac gets personal with undersea game Song of the Deep
"I wanted the hero of this game, Merryn, to be something different. I wanted her to show that you didn’t need to be either sexy or badass to be a hero."
June 29, 2016
New VR venture capital supergroup gathers $10B to invest in VR dev
New VR venture capital supergroup gathers $10B to invest in VR dev
Hey, VR devs: A bunch of investment firms and VR/AR companies have joined together to form the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance -- and it has $10 billion to spend on funding VR projects.
June 29, 2016
Optimistic about VR and games, Sony raises its earnings forecast
Optimistic about VR and games, Sony raises its earnings forecast
Sony seems to be feeling pretty good about the state of its games business, as the company has raised its profit forecasts on the back of PS Plus revenue, PS4 sales -- and the impending PSVR debut.
June 29, 2016
New Paint of Persia tool helps devs rotoscope film into pixel art
New Paint of Persia tool helps devs rotoscope film into pixel art
Inspired by the sort of rotoscoped animations seen in the original Prince of Persia, one game dev has built a custom tool, Paint of Persia, that you can use to rotoscope your own pixel art animations.
June 29, 2016