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Road to the IGF: Klaus Pedersen's Back to Bed
Road to the IGF: Klaus Pedersen's Back to Bed
Student IGF finalist Back to Bed places a narcoleptic, sleep-walking boy in an M.C. Escher-inspired isometric puzzler, where the player must nudge the boy safely to his bed using a creature from his subconsciousness.
March 4, 2013
Happy devs make better games: The quality-of-life survey results
Happy devs make better games: The quality-of-life survey results
Results from the Game Developer Quality of Life Survey are in: Happy developers make better games, working longer regular hours means working longer crunch hours, and unhappy devs will find new jobs.
March 4, 2013
Video: Famous designers attempt to make a game about falling in love
Video: Famous designers attempt to make a game about falling in love
Freed from any commercial restraints, well-known game designers Will Wright (SimCity), Warren Spector (Deus Ex) and Raph Koster (Ultima Online) pitch their love game concepts in front of a live audience.
March 4, 2013
Jason West leaves Respawn Entertainment - report
Jason West leaves Respawn Entertainment - report
Former Infinity Ward head Jason West has left Respawn Entertainment, the studio he founded alongside Vince Zampella in 2010, according to various media reports.
March 4, 2013
Survey results: Which mobile platforms are developers making games for?
Survey results: Which mobile platforms are developers making games for?
Over 2,500 game developers were recently asked which smartphone platforms they are currently developing games for. As you might imagine, iOS and Android were the dominant platforms, but how did the others fair?
March 4, 2013
This week in video game criticism: From door design to Skyrim geology
This week in video game criticism: From door design to Skyrim geology
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Katie Williams on topics including door design, Skyrim geology, nostalgia in the BioShock series, and more.
March 4, 2013
New survey suggests face-to-face is more important than technology for bank customers
New survey suggests face-to-face is more important than technology for bank customers
A YouGov survey of more than 6500 people in France (1010), Germany (1053), Hong Kong (518), Spain (1006), the USA (1000) and the UK (2060) suggests that bank customers favor access to a local branch above technology such as mobile banking and social network banking.
March 4, 2013
YAJ0 – yet another Java zero-day
YAJ0 – yet another Java zero-day
Researchers have discovered yet another Java zero-day vulnerability being successfully exploited in the wild against browsers that have Java v1.6 Update 41 and Java v1.7 Update 15 installed.
March 2, 2013
Stuxnet has been attacking Iran since 2005
Stuxnet has been attacking Iran since 2005
The Stuxnet malware used to take Iran's nuclear program offline in 2009/2010 is actually two years older than previously thought.
March 2, 2013
The Napkin Dialogues: Lossless iSCSI
The Napkin Dialogues: Lossless iSCSI
We bring out the napkins again to discuss lossless iSCSI and its design implications
March 2, 2013
Video: Game critics step up to the soapbox and rant at GDC
Video: Game critics step up to the soapbox and rant at GDC
Notable online and print game critics roast the people who make games, the journalists who write about them, and the people who play them in this free video lecture from GDC 2009 courtesy of the GDC Vault.
March 1, 2013
Get a job: Gaikai and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board
Get a job: Gaikai and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Blizzard Entertainment, Gaikai, Gameloft, and others.
March 1, 2013