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Nite To Unite Raises $750,000 For Kids Charities

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:58:08 GMT

The ESA Foundation's annual Nite to Unite raised $750,000 for children's charities at its recent gala.

Play With The Whole World: Tandem Games & The Intel Software Partner

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:57:41 GMT

In this Intel-sponsored feature article, the Austin-based independent developer Tandem Games explains the optimization and development support that they received from being part of the Intel Software Partner Program.

Disputed Study Claims 'Conclusive Evidence' Of Game/Violence

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:38:33 GMT

A new study led by Iowa State University has concluded that violent video games do have a negative effect on children, with test cases examined in both the U.S. and Japan.

A fun Game Industry community website

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:01:38 GMT

GameBeing is a new LinkedIn-like website made exclusively for Game Industry professionals and it has started its private beta phase. As expected, it has the well-known features like contact lists, groups and profiles; the big news is that it also has a project section, blog and a personal portfolio, where you can easily add projects that you've worked on and attach content to it (downloads, images, links, etc.).

Postmortem: Torpex Games' Schizoid

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:20:20 GMT

In this exclusive Gamasutra postmortem, Torpex Games co-founder Jamie Fristrom (Spider-Man 2) presents a fascinating post-release analysis of the XNA-utilizing Xbox Live Arcade co-op title, which debuted in July 2008.

Spore customers lash out at DRM, sabotage Amazon score | Destructoid o

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:07:29 GMT

Customers feeling burned by the anti-piracy measures in the long-awaited PC game Spore have decided to take out their frustrations on Amazon, utilizing the review feature to tear the game to shreds for its "draconian" DRM and "dumbed down" gameplay. Spore's DRM has been accused of eating up too much RAM, causing slowdown. Consumers are also outraged that they can only install the game three times before having to deal with EA's customer support. One reviewer called Spore a rental, pointing out that EA had total control over the title's use:

An Examination of Outsourcing Part 2: The Contractor Angle

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:14:11 GMT

Last month, Gamasutra spoke to three major proponents of outsourcing to discover the case for outsourcing. This time around, three different flavors of outsourcers -- Production Road, Virtuos, and Darkside Game Studios -- discuss what differentiates each of the relatively young companies from each other.

Ad4Game - New add network

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:44:23 GMT

Ad network for the game industry.

In-Depth: Xbox Live Community Games - Multerer Tells All

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:46:04 GMT

In this in-depth interview, Multerer discusses the royalty specifics, professional game developers using XNA, and why he'd like to see big-budget retail games releasing companion mini-games via XNA Community Games.

XBLA pricing (Castle Crashers and Braid)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:35:49 GMT

Following the storm that was caused by an inaccurate announcement of the price point for Castle Crashers and Braid, newretro discusses XBLA pricing from the developer's point of view.

2008 Game Developer Career Guide Issue Available For Free

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:04:37 GMT

For the first time ever, Game Developer's annual Game Career Guide, a special edition magazine devoted to helping aspiring video game creators and guided by the editors of the Game Career Guide website, is being given away for free.

PhysX Demo Competition from The Game Creators and NVIDIA

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:01:09 GMT

The Game Creators and NVIDIA are giving you budding game developers a chance to show off your skills while playing around with PhysX, the hottest game technology to hit the streets in years. Winners will not only walk away with the fastest graphic card technology on the planet, but will see their showpieces distributed to millions of NVIDIA users. The creators of the best submissions will also be considered for potential contractual work with NVIDIA later in the year.

Agile Game Development: Hit or miss dead?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:17:35 GMT

Before this decade, the games market was largely "hit or miss" driven. One hit would pay for a dozen failures. The reason was that games cost less than a million dollars to make and hits made tens of millions in profits. The unpredictability of success in the market worked with this model.