In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra’s jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Rockstar, LucasArts, Blizzard Entertainment, and others. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site’s daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across Gamasutra’s network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on independent …
LATEST ARTICLES
In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra’s jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Rockstar, LucasArts, Blizzard Entertainment, and others. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site’s daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across Gamasutra’s network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on independent …
South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is reportedly reviewing a policy that would ban minors’ accounts if they played online games for more than two hours consecutively, or a total of three hours in a day. While there is already a shutdown law in place preventing children aged under 18 years old from playing online games during a late-night six-hour block, MEST’s rationale for the policy is that game addiction comes from how …
South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is reportedly reviewing a policy that would ban minors’ accounts if they played online games for more than two hours consecutively, or a total of three hours in a day. While there is already a shutdown law in place preventing children aged under 18 years old from playing online games during a late-night six-hour block, MEST’s rationale for the policy is that game addiction comes from how …
[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with NFL Flick Kicker HD, Angry Birds Seasons HD and Paper Monsters currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week’s top paid titles are: 1. Where’s My Water? ($0.99) 2. Words With Friends HD ($0.99) 3. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 4. NFL Flick Kicker HD ($0.99) 5. Paper Monsters ($0.99) …
[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Mojang's Daniel Kaplan, Runic Games' Max Schaefer, Arc System Works' Daisuke Ishiwatari, and many others.] In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week, a wide variety of developers, publishers, and indies shared their thoughts on indie game bundles, puzzle clones, portable adaptations, how Japanese studios can compete with major U.S. developers, and more. This Week’s Noteworthy Game Industry Quotes …
Following allegations of theft from MMO publisher NCSoft, Bluehole Studio and its U.S. publisher En Masse Entertainment revealed today that they plan to fight these claims, and protect the U.S. launch of the fantasy MMO, Tera. Earlier this month, NCSoft filed a complaint claiming that Bluehole built Tera using stolen assets from the popular MMO Lineage 3, and is seeking temporary and permanent injunctions to block the release of the title in the U.S. Responding …
[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor-in-chief Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on “Best Of Indie Games,” we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this edition include a tower defense game inspired by science fiction films from the …
Since its launch in November, Amazon’s Kindle Fire has made some major gains in the Android Market, and now hosts more end user app sessions than Samsung’s popular Galaxy Tab devices. According to recently published research by Flurry Analytics, the Kindle Fire hosts 35.7 percent of all global Android app sessions (which are defined by the launch and exit of a given app), while the Galaxy Tab hosts 35.6 percent of these sessions, down from …
Veteran game designer Jordan Weisman is now interim director of the University of Washington Bothell’s Center for Serious Play, which has just launched its first student game on Facebook. The game, UWB Wetlands Restoration, is a social game with a real correlative to the subject at hand, developed in collaboration with the university’s ecology department. The Center itself is a new initiative, just under a year old. Weisman, who established FASA, created series like Shadowrun …
RSS Feeds
