Weekend Reading: Naval War and the Art of the Compromise

Source: Softpedia

Do all video games need to have good graphics in order to get a solid audience in our current era of video game history? Or are there still genres where offering a solid user interface is more important than delivering eye c ...
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Nvidia demos upcoming Hawken mech game using cloud graphics (video)

Source: VentureBeat

Jen-Hsun Huang (pictured below), chief executive of Nvidia, and Gaikai (cloud gaming platform) chief executive David Perry showed how someone playing the game on a high-end PC could square off against someone with a relatively weak machine. They sh ...
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YoYo Games’ GameMaker: Studio allows developers to make cross-platform 2D games using HTML5

Source: IntoMobile

YoYo Games launched GameMaker: Studio, a new software that promises to make 2D game development easy, relying on HTML5 technology. This in turn, will allow developers to make game once and see it running on multiple platforms, including i ...
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A Video Game Designed to Help Doctors to Recognize Drug Abuse [Drugs]

Source: Gizmodo

At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the doctors are training themselves with technology to better recognize the signs of addiction. A video game has been designed based on the research of Dr. Michael M. Fleming of Northwestern ...
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Game On

Source: Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA â The capitalâs video game design industry has finally grown up â and itâs throwing a big party on Tuesday to prove it. In what organizers hope will be the first of many annual Ottawa Game Conferences, hundreds o ...
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Get a job: Ubisoft and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board

Source: Indie Games: The Weblog

In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at Ubisoft, Majesco Entertainment, Powerhead Games, and others. Each ...
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The Popularity of Atari's E.T. Shows No Signs of Slowing Down

Source: 1up.com

A lamogordo, New Mexico -- The dusty town of Alamogordo seems more like a relic of the highway culture of the 1950s and '60s than it does a future player in the world of video gaming. Currently known by fe ...
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For Gearbox Entertaining the Player Is a Religion

Source: Softpedia

The developers at Gearbox Software are pretty busy at the moment, working on Aliens: Colonial Marines, a new Brother in Arms game and Borderlands 2, but their leader still found time to speak about how the team approaches game develo ...
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GameSalad and Tencent Bringing Code-Free Game Development to China

Source: PandoDaily.com

The company began offering its “drag-and-drop game creator” in 2009. Through its visual programming interface, it’s possible to build a game using only pictures and flow charts that describe the action. Recently, GameSalad announced the r ...
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