Why the Collapse of 38 Studios May Be Good for Rhode Island

Source: Forbes

As we all know, the state of Rhode Island loaned 38 Studios $75 million on the condition that the video game developers create 450 new jobs over the next three years. As we also know, 38 Studios could eit ...
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Why the Collapse of 38 Studios May Be Good for Rhode Island

Source: Forbes

As we all know, the state of Rhode Island loaned 38 Studios $75 million on the condition that the video game developers create 450 new jobs over the next three years. As we also know, 38 Studios could either make a payment or keep it ...
Full article at: Forbes  More like this  15 hours ago, 12:47pm CDT

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 of video game developers, dev ...
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'Indie Game: The Movie' will be Steam's first full-length film release

Source: The Verge

Digital distribution service Steam has been a godsend for independent video game developers and, as such, it is only appropriate that Indie Game: The Movie will be available alongside the very same titles covered in the documentary. ...
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Kickstarter.com helps video game developers reboot old titles

Source: The Washington Post

Earlier this year, a group of filmmakers came to Tim Schafer with a pitch to make a documentary about his video game development company, Double Fine . His people would make a game and they’d film the whole process. But nobody knew how to ...
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Social Media Helps Laid-Off Video Game Makers Survive a Reckoning

Source: Good Magazine

The video game industry takes care of their own. 38Studios, a video game development house in Rhode Island run by retired baseball star Curt Schilling, laid off all of its employees yesterday, culminating a mont ...
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Developers Should Not Be Content Factories, Says Epic Games President

Source: Softpedia

The leader of Epic Games, one of the best known video game developers of the moment, believes that the factory system is not suited to video game creation but that there’s a fundamental need for structure t ...
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‘Assassin’s Creed 3′ Video Talks ‘The Road To E3′

Source: Game Rant

There’s no greater stage for video game developers than E3, especially when you’re making a game with Assassin’s Creed in the title. The development teams behind the series at Ubisoft have maintained an annua ...
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Who the Hell is Steven Spielberg?

Source: 1up.com

T he name Steven Spielberg probably doesn't ring a bell to you, does it? Nope, didn't think so. What if I gave you a hint and told you that he was someone heavily associated with the film industry? Still nothi ...
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