How to get a job in… Production
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Video Game Dev | 1 Comment »We spoke with by Realtime Worlds' production manager Russell Murray about how to improve your potential for a prospective role in production.
Sony Shows Off Various Companies Supporting Home
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | 5 Comments »The Japanese arm of Sony has revealed a number of the high-profile games companies that have currently signed up for licenses to develop content for the firm’s growing virtual world service PlayStation Home. Big-hitting backers such as EA, Capcom and Ubisoft ...
XNA Developers Community Network
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in XNA, Video Game Dev | No Comments »In the near future, Microsoft will be opening the floodgates so that anyone with a compatible compiler, Game Studio and the desire to make a game will be able to release products for the XBox 360 under the Community Games ...
Breaking into the Video Game Industry
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in XNA, Developer Profiles, Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | No Comments »For many people, getting a job in the game industry is their dream job. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is being a game designer, making great games that people all over the world will ...
Testing a Sports Video Game
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | 2 Comments »As a longtime sports video game geek, it was a unique opportunity. Electronic Arts Canada community manager Marcus Stephenson, a longtime online friend from our years playing Madden football and conversing on the game's related message boards, sent me a ...
Peter Jackson Halo Project Revealed in Job Listing?
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Featured, Video Game News, Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | 3 Comments »We've been hearing tidbits here and there about Peter Jackson working with Microsoft to create a new Halo experience, but using the talent and direction from this great movie director. Well, looking through the Gamasutra Job Boards, we came across ...
The State of Video Game Development
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | 1 Comment »With studio closures seemingly popping up left and right (Iron Lore, Stormfront, Sega Racing Studio, Castaway, Pseudo Interactive, Perpetual Entertainment, to name a few) in this age of massive next-gen budgets and continued industry consolidation, GameDaily BIZ decided to get ...
Square Enix To Hold Summer Event for Japan
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Video Game News, Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | No Comments »Square Enix will be giving its biggest Japanese fans a sneak peak at its latest titles this summer. The company announced today plans for the DKΣ3713 event, a summer event that will give players a chance to check out Final ...
Havok now offering their tools free to PC developers
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Development Tools, Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | 8 Comments »Well, it looks as though Havok has released their tools to PC developers for free. Just fill out the form, download the tools, and you're good to go. Here is what the Havok site had to say:
The last generation of consoles?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Video Game Dev, Video Game Industry | 2 Comments »Wild Tangent founder, chairman and CEO Alex St John told the Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference that game consoles will soon cease to exist as we currently know them. "I think you're looking at the last generation of game ...