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Steam Box prototype coming within the next four months
Steam Box prototype coming within the next four months
"We'll be giving out some prototypes to customers, I guess, in the next three to four months." - Valve co-founder Gabe Newell says that his company's "Steam Box" will be in some consumer hands sometime this summer.
March 6, 2013
Dragon's Dogma, La-Mulana, Tokyo Jungle, Virtue's Last Reward talks added to GDC 2013
Dragon's Dogma, La-Mulana, Tokyo Jungle, Virtue's Last Reward talks added to GDC 2013
GDC 2013 organizers are highlighting simultaneously translated design lectures on recent hits from Japan, including Dragon's Dogma, La-Mulana, Tokyo Jungle, Rune Factory 4, and Virtue's Last Reward.
March 6, 2013
Video: Relive GDC 2012's popular Experimental Gameplay Sessions
Video: Relive GDC 2012's popular Experimental Gameplay Sessions
The Experimental Gameplay Session celebrates its tenth year by having developers such as Anna Anthropy, Steve Swink, and Daniel Benmergui show off their curious approaches to interactivity, given in this free video lecture.
March 6, 2013
Get a Job: Sony Santa Monica seeks a senior gameplay programmer
Get a Job: Sony Santa Monica seeks a senior gameplay programmer
"Sony Santa Monica is seeking a senior gameplay/generalist programmer to join the team behind the critically acclaimed God of War games. In this gameplay generalist role you work on the technologies that the designers, artists, and other contents creators use to bring life to our games."
March 6, 2013
Road to the IGF: Super Hexagon
Road to the IGF: Super Hexagon
Terry Cavanagh tells us the origin story behind smartphone hit Super Hexagon, which could take home the prize for Excellence in Design when the 2013 Independent Games Festival takes place later this month.
March 6, 2013
5 things to know about 'core' game players in the United States
5 things to know about 'core' game players in the United States
Analysts at the NPD Group recently surveyed over 6,000 people in the United States to find out what the "core gamer" demographic was up to in 2012. Are they still male-dominated? Are they spending less? The answers within!
March 6, 2013
New botnet found in Latin America
New botnet found in Latin America
A new botnet, AlbaBotnet, has been discovered in Latin America. It appears to be still in development and has not yet been used in anger. Currently it is designed to target two specific banks in Chile.
March 6, 2013
MSE Blog Series Part 3: Monetize Your WLAN using Cisco Location Analytics
MSE Blog Series Part 3: Monetize Your WLAN using Cisco Location Analytics
In light of the recent announcement of MSE Release 7.4 and Advanced Location Analytics Availability, we thought it would be timely to pick up where we
March 6, 2013
Optimize Social Profiles for Better Search Engine Results
Optimize Social Profiles for Better Search Engine Results
Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the practice of building and maintaining social network profiles and activity in ways that are most likely to have a
March 6, 2013
Get a Job: Kojima Productions needs a senior gameplay programmer in L.A.
Get a Job: Kojima Productions needs a senior gameplay programmer in L.A.
"Main Work Duties: Defining and developing the technology, systems and tools programming for the core foundation of 3D action game."
March 5, 2013
GDC 2013 highlights developer days from Google, Unity, Intel, more
GDC 2013 highlights developer days from Google, Unity, Intel, more
GDC 2013 organizers are highlighting more day-long sponsored developer days for the March conference, including those on the Google Cloud platform, Unity Technologies, Intel's next-generation GPUs, and more.
March 5, 2013
Road to the IGF: Mahdi Bahrami's Farsh
Road to the IGF: Mahdi Bahrami's Farsh
At age 17, Mahdi Bahrami entered the 2011 IGF competition and received an honorable mention in the Excellence in Design category for Bo. Now Bahrami's a finalist for the 2013 IGF student competition.
March 5, 2013