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Get a job: Deep Silver Volition seeks a Senior Audio Designer 2
Are you an experienced audio whiz? Saints Row developer Deep Silver Volition is seeking a senior audio designer to join them in their Champaign, Illinois offices.
March 12, 2015
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Cities: Skylines breaks Paradox records with 250k sold in 24 hours
That makes Colossal Order's city-builder the fastest-selling game Paradox Interactive has published to date.
March 12, 2015
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New initiative gifts 1 million BBC Micro successors to UK kids
As part of the Make It Digital initiative the BBC is giving away a million BBC Micro Bit coding devices -- much like it did with the BBC Micro in the '80s, inspiring a generation of British game devs.
March 12, 2015
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Too Many Cooks: Valiant Hearts director departs Ubisoft
After 14 years at Ubisoft spanning work on everything from Beyond Good & Evil to Assassin's Creed, Valiant Hearts content director Yoan Fanise is calling it quits and getting out of AAA development.
March 12, 2015
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BAFTA Awards honor Destiny, Monument Valley, and David Braben
Tonight's BAFTA awards in the UK continued to highlight the vibrancy of the independent development scene -- as a number of smaller titles walked off with statuettes.
March 12, 2015
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Castlevania's Koji Igarashi offers advice to today's Metroidvania devs
Koji "IGA" Igarashi, whose Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a touchstone game for the Metroidvania genre, discusses what it takes to make a good one in this new interview.
March 12, 2015
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Obituary: Influential fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett
Renowned British novelist Sir Terry Pratchett passed away today in his home at the age of 66. He was best known for his Discworld comedic fantasy novels, which inspired multiple adventure games.
March 12, 2015
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Postmortem: DoubleBear's Dead State - Controlling scope in an RPG
A look back at Dead State, from Kickstarter success through Early Access before final release, with Brian Mitsoda, Creative Director of Doublebear.
March 11, 2015
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GDC Europe 2015 officials announce dates and call for papers
GDC organizers have put out the call for submissions to present lectures and panels sessions at the 2015 Game Developers Conference Europe, which will run August 3-4 in Cologne, Germany.
March 11, 2015
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Get a job: Harmonix is hiring an Animation Engineer
The folks behind Fantasia: Music Evolved and Rock Band are looking for an engineer to manage artist-facing tools and engine-level animation code at Harmonix's Cambridge, MA studio.
March 11, 2015
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Video: On SimCity and designing art in service of simulation
Ocean Quigley speaks in detail about the motivations that drove SimCity's aesthetics and the methods that were developed to achieve them in this hour-long talk recorded at GDC 2013.
March 11, 2015
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Into the Pixel calls for submissions to its latest exhibition
Video game artists are invited to submit pieces to the exhibition, now in its 12th year, which showcases production and concept art at industry events.
March 11, 2015