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IGF Interviews by GameDev.net Staff posted 2/5/06 We continue our annual tradition and chat with the finalists in the 2006 Independent Games Fesival. 21-6 Productions Atomic Elbow Grubby Games Ominous Development Pocketwatch Games |
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P R O D U C T R E V I E W GP2X: An Early Adoption Report by Oli Wilkinson posted 2/3/06 A review of this open handheld platform from a developer's perspective. |
Evolution® is a powerful source control and product versioning system. It goes beyond simple checking in and out of files and provides features that allow developers to version whole components and entire projects. It can also be used as a digital asset management system.
| Monday, February 6, 2006 | |
| VU Games NA President Leaves | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 11:26:05 AM | |
 Phil O'Neil, president of Vivendi Universal Games North America has left the company "to explore opportunities outside of VU Games"; sales team reorgainzes.Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| James Cameron Planning MMO/Film Crossover | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 5:30:15 AM | |
| Storied director tells BusinessWeek that he's working on an ambitious game which will tie into his next big screen project. But is it Battle Angel or Avatar? Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| More Post-'Hot Coffee' Take-Two Lawsuits Arise | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 5:05:26 AM | |
| Take-Two Interactive is being sued again, as its recent SEC filing warned was a possibility, in a lawsuit by one of its stockholders charging the company of insider trading and mismanagement. John Fenninger, who holds Take-Two common stock, filed a motion against the company for "fraudulent scheme and course of business." Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| Sunday, February 5, 2006 | |
| Lighthouse 3D GLSL Tutorial with OpenGL 2.0 | |
| Posted by: Antnio Ramires at 6:43:40 PM | |
 Lighthouse 3D's GLSL tutorial now covers OpenGL 2.0 functions in addition to the ARB extensions. Both versions are now available in the tutorial, with syntax and source code color coded. While the ARB extension version provides backwards compatibility, the OpenGL 2.0 version is available more and more with the new driver releases and new hardware. The source code has also been updated to include both versions. For more information, visit Lighthouse 3D.Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| PixelBox Academy to Deliver COLLADA Training | |
| Posted by: PixelBox Academy at 4:51:31 PM | |
| Courses on use of COLLADA to construct state-of-the-art content creation pipelines; Industry-wide Khronos open standard originally created by Sony Computer Entertainment for PLAYSTATION®3 Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Player Designed Games | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 12:21:38 PM | |
| User-generated content is back in vogue as games go "open source;" J Allard and Will Wright get behind personalization of games at SoCal conference. Read More.. | 12 Comments | |
| Programming Languages for Games | |
| Posted by: Sebastian Sylvan at 8:55:24 AM | |
| Tim Sweeney (from Epic) recently held a talk at POPL'06 (Principles Of Programming Languages) entitled "The Next Mainstream Programming Language, a game developers perpsective". Read More.. | 28 Comments | |
| Saturday, February 4, 2006 | |
| Revolution Detailed at GDC? | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 6:27:19 PM | |
 According to MCV, Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, is going to unveil some key details regarding the Revolution console at the Game Developers Conference in March.Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| Swedish Game Awards - Game Developers Evening #1 | |
| Posted by: JP Johansson at 1:49:58 PM | |
 Swedish Game Awards 2006 is beginning! This Wednesday, 8th of February, will be the official kick-off with a Game Developers Evening. Representatives from two of our partners, Starbreeze and Peligroso, are coming to hold two very interesting presentations about the game industry. More information at the official website (Swedish).Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| Friday, February 3, 2006 | |
| 5 Big Careers in Demand, and .NET Developers are in! | |
| Posted by: Steven Bradley at 3:46:29 PM | |
| CNNMoney.com talked with specialists at national staffing and recruiting firm Spherion to find out which job-hunting workers today are sitting in the catbird seat when it comes to negotiating better pay. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| THQ Announces Formation Of Kaos Studios | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 1:19:10 PM | |
| Major U.S. headquartered publisher THQ Inc. today announced the opening of the New York-based Kaos Studios, founded by veterans of Trauma Studios, creators of the Desert Combat and Battlefield 2 R&D; projects, as a new internal THQ studio. Read More.. | 8 Comments | |
| Indiana Game Bill Fails Due to Lack of Support | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 1:04:06 PM | |
| Though Indiana State Senator Vi Simpson had announced her intentions to introduce a bill dealing with violent video games, the latest in a large number of U.S. State-specific video game bills put forward over the past few months, the unnumbered bill did not make it to be introduced on the senate floor, reports the Indianapolis Star. Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| Empire Interactive Confirms Takeover Interest | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 1:00:16 PM | |
| Representatives from British-headquartered publisher Empire Interactive have made an official statement confirming that the company has received several bids from parties interested in takeover talks. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Game Technology Law Conference Announced | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:47:13 PM | |
| A two-day comprehensive conference on current developments in Gamer Technology Law has been announced for March 16 & 17 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Sony employee fired for publicly criticizing PS3 | |
| Posted by: Tiffany Smith at 12:03:54 PM | |
 A former 3D artist at SOE was fired after he compared the PS3 to the Xbox 360 in a blog he posted in January.Read More.. | 8 Comments | |
| Rackets to Railguns | |
| Posted by: Riviera Kid at 6:10:03 AM | |
| Scotsman David Kinnaird is swapping his tennis racket for a railgun. A keen gamer, Mr Kinnaird has packed in life as a pro-tennis player to try and make it in the world of professional computer gaming. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| EA's quarterly profits fall 31 percent | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 2:04:56 AM | |
| Megapublisher reports Q4 2005 net income is down $116 million; names Sims 2, Need for Speed as top sellers; claims 70 percent sports-game market share. Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| Analyst: Game industry to shrink in 2006 | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 1:57:38 AM | |
| Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter revises projections; expects a transitional slump before pronounced growth in 2007 and 2008. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Thursday, February 2, 2006 | |
| AAID Responds: Activision was 'Ignorant' | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 10:47:37 PM | |
| The Association for American Indian Development has responded to Activision's apology regarding the title Gun, saying the game was created out of ignorance. Read More.. | 15 Comments | |
| Uwe Boll Gets Razzie Nod | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 2:07:44 AM | |
| Infamous director of game-based films gets a Golden Raspberry nomination for Worst Director, thanks to Alone in the Dark. Read More.. | 15 Comments | |
| American Indian Group Boycotts Gun | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 2:03:10 AM | |
| Activision's Gun painted a gritty picture of vengeance and gunplay in the Old West when it was released last November. However, that grittiness is now drawing accusations of racism. Read More.. | 10 Comments | |
| Ubisoft and Capcom Announce Distribution Deal | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 1:59:01 AM | |
| Earlier today, Ubisoft and Capcom announced a partnership to distribute PC versions of hit console games later in the year. Under the agreement, Ubisoft will release three games, the first of which, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege will hit North America later in the month. No concrete release date has been officially announced as of now. Read More.. | 3 Comments | |
| Wednesday, February 1, 2006 | |
| Garage Games Indie Blog | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 7:07:26 PM | |
| Jeff Tunnell, co-founder of Garage Games has created his own blog aptly titled Make It Big In Games. The topics of his blog center around indie game development, including how indie developers can go about getting their games onto XBox Live Arcade. To check out his blog, head over to MakeItBigInGames.com. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| EA Cuts 5% of Global Work Force | |
| Posted by: Tiffany Smith at 6:56:08 PM | |
| According to online reports confirmed by an official statement made to consumer site GameSpot, Electronic Arts has laid off around 5 percent of its staff worldwide, following a cautionary conference call in mid-December regarding the slowing video game market... Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| X-Box 360 Demand Remains | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 6:50:42 PM | |
 Matt Rosoff, a lead analyst with Directions on Microsoft, an independent firm devoted solely to tracking Microsoft's business trends, tells Next Generation why he thinks the X-Box biz is better than recent reports suggest.Read More.. | 10 Comments | |
| EA, Ubisoft trade fire over hire | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 1:30:59 PM | |
| Need for Speed maker calls out Splinter Cell developer's use of non-compete clauses; Ubi says it needs to "evaluate" situation. Read More.. | 14 Comments | |
| Chattering Pixels Announces Launch of Three New Middleware Components | |
| Posted by: Chattering Pixels at 8:02:01 AM | |
| MIDDLESBROUGH, UK. – Chattering Pixels have announced the launch of three exciting new middleware components in their rapidly expanding range alongside announcing that their CP_CORE module now comes bundled for free with all of their solutions. Read More.. | 3 Comments | |
| Tuesday, January 31, 2006 | |
| ID Turning 360 | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 9:48:56 PM | |
| PC Gamer UK talks to id co-founder and coder extraordanaire John Carmack about a new rendering engine, console vs. PC development and how the Xbox 360 is likely to become id's primary platform. Read More.. | 11 Comments | |
| IGDA Indie SIG Website Revamped | |
| Posted by: Michael Lubker at 9:48:26 AM | |
 The IGDA Indie SIG website has been revamped. Comments and submissions are welcome.Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Beta Testers Petition Publisher Ubisoft to Delay Heroes of Might & Magic V | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 5:19:03 AM | |
| Online petitions are nothing new, and neither are those targeted at game companies which usually demand the continuation of a franchise or the reinstatement of a cancelled title. But beta testers of the latest instalment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series have banded together and petitioned publisher Ubisoft not to release the game in its present state on March 30. Read More.. | 15 Comments | |
