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Your Game Industry In Your Words: Week Of December 30
Your Game Industry In Your Words: Week Of December 30
Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Spicy Horse's American McGee, Bungie's Hao Chen, Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi, and many others in this new weekly roundup.
Dec. 30, 2011
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of December 30
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of December 30
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Havok, Sledgehammer Games, Frogster, and others.
Dec. 30, 2011
C/C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 2: Data Types
C/C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 2: Data Types
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Gamer Camp's Alex Darby continues to explain his idea of a C/C++ Low Level Curriculum by discussing assumptions, data types, and more.
Dec. 29, 2011
Russian Publisher Mail.Ru Games Shuffles Management
Russian Publisher Mail.Ru Games Shuffles Management
Hamburg-based Mail.Ru Games, which is publishing Crytek's Warface in Russia, shifted its management team to appoint a new deputy CEO and managing director.
Dec. 29, 2011
Asia Game Show 2011 Sees Record Attendance
Asia Game Show 2011 Sees Record Attendance
The Asia Game Show, held in Hong Kong from December 23-26, attracted a record number of visitors this year, with over 472,000 entering the exhibition over the four day event.
Dec. 29, 2011
UK Ministry of Defense Adapting Recent Video Game Shooters Into Simulations
UK Ministry of Defense Adapting Recent Video Game Shooters Into Simulations
The British Ministry of Defense is looking to bring technology from recent first-person shooter war games into its simulations, in an attempt to focus the concentration of participating soldiers.
Dec. 29, 2011
Usability Evaluation For Video Games: Gulfs Of Execution, Evaluation
Usability Evaluation For Video Games: Gulfs Of Execution, Evaluation
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, European University Cyprus assistant professor Georgios Christou begints to look at how to evaluate the usability of a video game.
Dec. 29, 2011
Gamasutra Expert Blogs: From Game Type To Anno 2070
Gamasutra Expert Blogs: From Game Type To Anno 2070
In highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs, industry notables write about diverse topics, including how the Xbox 360's new dashboard helped an XBLIG release, an Anno 2070 analysis, and more.
Dec. 29, 2011
Facing The Challenges Of Player Movement With Kinect
Facing The Challenges Of Player Movement With Kinect
In Gamasutra's new feature interview, the producer of the upcoming Microsoft-published Haunt for Xbox Live Arcade discusses getting navigation just right
Dec. 29, 2011
Schell Brings Craft Culture To Games With Puzzle Clubhouse
Schell Brings Craft Culture To Games With Puzzle Clubhouse
Viral media and craft culture online present fascinating new opportunities for user-generated gaming -- Jesse Schell talks to us about Puzzle Clubhouse, a collaborative game design project.
Dec. 29, 2011
Gamasutra's Best Of 2011: Top 5 Surprises
Gamasutra's Best Of 2011: Top 5 Surprises
Continuing our 2011 retrospective, editor-at-large Leigh Alexander rounds up the year's five biggest surprising events -- from closures following successes to unexpected hardware performance.
Dec. 29, 2011
Opinion: Skyrim And Gaming's Old School Myth And Legend
Opinion: Skyrim And Gaming's Old School Myth And Legend
Remember what game culture was like in the weird old days, before information was plentiful and the internet connected all? Gamasutra's Leigh Alexander looks at what Skyrim reminds us we've missed.
Dec. 29, 2011