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Game Developer Switches From Linux, Improves Time-to-Market And Lowers Costs
White Papers Glu Mobile, a global leader in the fiercely competitive market of video games, needed a more appealing and functional Web site as well as a far easier way to update, localize, and personalize the site's content.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Microsoft Confirms Rare Buy, Xbox Live Date
News Microsoft executives on Tuesday confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in the game industry: the company's purchase of British game developer Rare. Microsoft said in a statement that it had paid $375m in cash for the developer, best known for...
[September 25, 2002, 8:52]
'Hooligans' Game Condemned
News The Home Office and the Football Association have condemned plans by a Dutch games developer to release the game 'Hooligans-Storm over Europe'. Dutch games developer The Thirteenth Production previewed the game last week at London's ECTS trade show...
[September 15, 2000, 9:08]
Microsoft Visual Studio Express Edition
Downloads If you're a gamer who wants to learn more about game development or a developer who wants to sharpen your development skills, check out these free developer learning resources that teach you, step-by-step, how to develop your own arcade games on...
[May 19, 2006, 18:26]
Mobile Gaming Booms In India
News The market encompasses a half dozen major game developer companies and four service providers offering games to their subscribers. Anurag Khurana, CEO of Paradox Studios, a game developer based in Mumbai, said as the use of mobile phones expands...
[November 25, 2004, 8:50]
X-Box Alert! Microsoft Got Game?
News Moreover, game developer UbiSoft let slip that a coming game, based on the TV series "VIP" and starring Pamela Anderson Lee, will also run on the X-Box platform when it hits shelves in the fall. The purchase of the domain name comes two weeks...
[February 28, 2000, 9:50]
Q&A: Why Xbox Creator Left Microsoft
News I'm just a gamer -- the reason I was doing all the press and talking to all the developers, and the reason we made the Xbox is because I'm a gamer and a game developer. It's been really frustrating for me to be talking about other people's games...
[April 24, 2002, 7:31]
Intel Toolkit Brings 3D To PDAs
News Software developer Fathammer's X-Forge 3D Game Engine, which is currently in development and is due out this autumn, has been optimised for Xscale, and uses the GPP toolkit. Kolli was introducing the toolkit to European developers at the Game...
[August 30, 2002, 14:05]
Tiga Adds Teeth To UK Games Industry
News However, one venture capitalist warned developers that, in an industry where a delay of a couple of weeks can mean missing the vital pre-Christmas sales period, taking a stake in a small game developer was a big risk.
[March 14, 2001, 7:32]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks review
Reviews Adventure in the South Seas: German game developer Crytek plans to optimise Farcry for the Athlon 64. Farcry, from German game developer Crytek (which sells through Ubisoft) should also be available as a 64-bit version.
[September 25, 2003, 16:35]
Xbox Co-creator Announces His Game Plan
News Besides Blackley and Bachus, the Capital group consists of Eugene Mauro, one of the game industry's first developer agents, and Mark Hood, a former executive with game publisher Sierra Interactive. Blackley and three other game industry veterans...
[May 10, 2002, 13:16]
Java On Mobiles: Write Once, Run... Once?
News A developer who wants to write a game for every device would have to do 24 versions just for the different screen sizes, he noted. Developers estimate that porting a game to a second phone can cost 20 percent extra in development.
[September 3, 2002, 10:41]
Are Palm Developers Making Money?
News One game developer said that modest price increases have actually spurred sales. Although Tomlinson said his company has seen sales grow dramatically in the past year, he added that overall, game makers are having a tougher time.
[February 10, 2002, 6:31]
Linux Fuels Game Console Plus
News One designed, from the ground up, to provide a game development environment and infrastructure capable of enabling any level of developer -- from an individual to a large corporation -- to bring products to market easily, and without huge barriers...
[July 7, 2000, 16:49]
Game Development 'hampered By IP'
News Intellectual property is the biggest single threat to game development today, ahead of censorship issues and even hardware limitations. According to Jon Hare, widely regarded as one of the godfathers of gaming for work on such titles as Sensible...
[August 29, 2002, 9:03]
Anti-patent Campaigner Hangs Up His Gloves
News But] the time has come for me to step down from my responsibility as a full-time campaign manager, and to resume a game development project in which I had previously invested almost two years of work.
[March 30, 2005, 14:30]
Game Developers Ponder Their Next Move
News Fri 30 Aug: The creator of Black & White is experimenting with new work on group minds - but unlike the borg, the characters in the new game are already descending into bar brawls Game developers look east for inspiration
[August 30, 2002, 16:05]
Qualcomm Reveals Applications For Wireless
News Qualcomm may have entered the game a little late, according to analysts. Companies like Picofun, a European-based cell phone game maker, has a golf game that uses shading to produce a 3D effect. 3D animation and maps that can zoom in and out at a...
[March 1, 2001, 8:58]
Sony: Dreamcast 'half' Of PlayStation2
News We think the window of opportunity (to develop a game for the Dreamcast) is a year. Curiously, Monday's release by Sony is wedged between last Thursday's launch of Dreamcast and next week's Tokyo Game Show, the expected venue for PlayStation2...
[September 14, 1999, 8:59]
A Year Ago: The Gigahertz Game - Is It All Just Hype?
News Neither Intel nor AMD are new to the game of marketing one-upsmanship. But the game can backfire from time to time, say observers -- for example, by focusing attention on its 1GHz PIII, Intel runs the risk of undermining interest in the chips it is...
[February 20, 2001, 6:01]
