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David Cage: Game industry has 'Peter Pan Syndrome'
David Cage: Game industry has 'Peter Pan Syndrome'
David Cage, CEO of Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream, says the industry needs to grow up, and stop marketing to (and behaving like) teenagers -- and he's got a nine-step plan to help us get there.
Feb. 6, 2013
Gabe Newell's vision for Steam: More choice, more democracy, less Greenlight
Gabe Newell's vision for Steam: More choice, more democracy, less Greenlight
Newell outlines his vision of where Steam is going: doing away with the approval process, converting Steam into a network API, transferring ownership of its "boring" storefront to its users and, surprisingly, killing Greenlight.
Feb. 6, 2013
Jesse Schell holds the keys to video game utopia
Jesse Schell holds the keys to video game utopia
Jesse Schell says game developers have the ability to lead people to utopia. But are they leading players to paradise, or trying to bind them with virtual chains?
Feb. 6, 2013
Road to the IGF: Henry Smith's Spaceteam
Road to the IGF: Henry Smith's Spaceteam
As part of Gamasutra's Road to the IGF series, Spaceteam creator Henry Smith discusses the various influences he drew inspiration from, and what he plans to do next with the space genre.
Feb. 6, 2013
Tridium vulnerability throws building controls wide open to hackers
Tridium vulnerability throws building controls wide open to hackers
Imagine if hackers were able to remotely control electronic door locks, alarms, lights, elevators, heating and thermostat systems, and other physical industrial facilities? Well it turns out that, thanks to a critical vulnerability in Honeywell industrial control systems, they can.
Feb. 6, 2013
Pinning Down Pinterest Best Practices
Pinning Down Pinterest Best Practices
Oh the joys of pinning new ideas, trends, videos, and so much more on Pinterest! I’ll admit it…I have a little obsession, racking up thousands of pins
Feb. 6, 2013
Amazon launching its own virtual currency this May
Amazon launching its own virtual currency this May
As Amazon looks to more fully enable game developers through its various online distribution services, the company today revealed its own virtual currency, which can be used by customers to purchase games.
Feb. 5, 2013
GDC Business Matchmaking service returns for All-Access GDC 2013 attendees
GDC Business Matchmaking service returns for All-Access GDC 2013 attendees
With just a week left for early registration to GDC 2013, organizers have opened its Business Matchmaking website, so All Access pass holders, GDC Play exhibitors and Expo exhibitors can set up onsite meetings with each other.
Feb. 5, 2013
Unity support on to the way for BlackBerry 10
Unity support on to the way for BlackBerry 10
The upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system will be heavily mobile game focused, as BlackBerry looks to compete with Apple. Today's addition of Unity support is another step in the right direction for the platform.
Feb. 5, 2013
Free-to-play house SOE closing down Bullet Run after six month stint
Free-to-play house SOE closing down Bullet Run after six month stint
Sony Online Entertainment went all-in with free-to-play games in 2012 -- a move that has proven successful in some cases, but not all, as first-person shooter Bullet Run can attest.
Feb. 5, 2013
How to make the move from game developer to game designer
How to make the move from game developer to game designer
Designer Soren Johnson outlines 5 ways to make budding game designers transition from game developer to game designer in this column that originally appeared in the November, 2012 issue of Game Developer magazine.
Feb. 5, 2013
Twitch's next step for live video game broadcasting: Subscriptions
Twitch's next step for live video game broadcasting: Subscriptions
Video streaming service Twitch is going all-in on its live video game broadcasting, launching a new subscription-based scheme that allows users to watch uninterrupted, ad-free broadcasts.
Feb. 5, 2013