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Video: Creating an active cinematic experience in Uncharted 2
Video: Creating an active cinematic experience in Uncharted 2
This 2010 talk from Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, the pair explores how Naughty Dog used The Active Cinematic Experience to parallel gameplay and storytelling in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
May 9, 2016
Get a job: Aardman Animations is looking for a Creative Director
Get a job: Aardman Animations is looking for a Creative Director
"We’re looking for an exceptional person with mind-warping ideas. You’ll likely be into telling stories, playing games, and making kids giggle."
May 9, 2016
Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack using Ansible
Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack using Ansible
At the recently concluded OpenStack summit in Austin, I was impressed by the amount of interest shown by attendees on containers. Almost all of the
May 6, 2016
Hackers Replace Ransomware with Dummy File
Hackers Replace Ransomware with Dummy File
Hackers Replace Ransomware with Dummy File. One small step in the fight against Locky
May 6, 2016
Banking Trojan Targets US and Mexico Using App Libraries
Banking Trojan Targets US and Mexico Using App Libraries
It tracks for certain URLs (including for Mexico’s second largest bank, Banamex), intercepts websites and inserts proxies.
May 6, 2016
AlphaLocker Makes Ransomware Easy and Profitable for All
AlphaLocker Makes Ransomware Easy and Profitable for All
A $65 price point allows the less-skilled to use ransomware with little to no coding and zero ramp-up time.
May 6, 2016
India Blames ISI for Spying on Military Through Gaming and Music Apps
India Blames ISI for Spying on Military Through Gaming and Music Apps
Pakistan’s intelligence agency is popular all over the world for its novel tactics and amazing abilities to stay updated about security concerns. After all,
May 6, 2016
Devs Answer: What are your favorite emergent social interactions in games?
Devs Answer: What are your favorite emergent social interactions in games?
Dark Souls 3 is reminding us how players can reinvent multiplayer mechanics to suit their own unconventional ends. We polled game developers for their favorite multiplayer social interactions
May 6, 2016
Naughty Dog continues the trend of launching big games with mobile tie-ins
Naughty Dog continues the trend of launching big games with mobile tie-ins
The trend of big studios launching high-profile games with mobile tie-ins continues, as both Naughty Dog and Gearbox have released free-to-play mobile games that can unlock rewards in their tentpole console games.
May 6, 2016
Nintendo licenses out new Cruis'n arcade game: Cruis'n Adventure
Nintendo licenses out new Cruis'n arcade game: Cruis'n Adventure
There seems to be a new Cruis'n arcade game in the wild, as Arcade Heroes reports that arcade game maker Raw Thrills has licensed the property from Nintendo to create Cruis'n Adventure.
May 6, 2016
Watch devs Clint Hocking and Mathieu Bérubé play and analyze Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Watch devs Clint Hocking and Mathieu Bérubé play and analyze Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Inspired by the Panama Papers leak, Clint Hocking and Ubisoft Toronto compatriot Mathieu Bérubé play through (and discuss their work on) the "Panama Bank" level of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
May 6, 2016
Lapsed game dev returns to make a Bernie Sanders game for The Late Show
Lapsed game dev returns to make a Bernie Sanders game for The Late Show
Game industry veteran and Twitter bot enthusiast Darius Kazemi has developed a new browser-based game, Bubble Burst Bernie, for CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
May 6, 2016