IGN Turns to Coding Challenge for New Hires David Spark, March 21, 2012 2 min read IGN was having a very difficult time trying to find developers the traditional resume way. It turns out job experience...
States Throw Money At Game Studios [DiceTV] Cat Miller, March 20, 2012 24 seconds States want to attract video game businesses – that’s good new for programmers… AOL has cut more jobs…and...
How to Make PHP Websites Run Faster David Bolton, March 19, 2012 4 min read PHP is the most popular server side scripting language of the web since it's free, easy to learn and a reasonably...
Web Games Can No Longer Ignore Mobile Players David Bolton, March 16, 2012 3 min read It appears shoppers prefer to use the mobile web rather than mobile Apps to buy online, according to recent research by...
States Work Harder to Attract Game Companies Mark Feffer, March 14, 2012 1 min read Video games, as a business, are becoming so big, with so much money attached, that states are falling all over...
Social Game Design Book Review David Bolton, March 14, 2012 3 min read For game designers and developers, monetization is a red hot topic. The traditional methods of making money from your...
Teaching Game Design With a Simple Toolkit David Bolton, March 8, 2012 3 min read One of the paradoxes of life is that the ability to choose is made harder by having too many choices available. User...
Blizzard’s Layoffs Won’t Stop Developer Hiring Mark Feffer, March 5, 2012 1 min read Blizzard Entertainment's planned layoff of 600 people will largely bypass its development teams. Though the Activision...
When Will You Move to HTML5? David Bolton, March 5, 2012 3 min read HTML 5 came before the world was ready for it, some say. "The standard's not complete," "Browser support is patchy,"...
Github Hacker Spotlights Huge Security Flaw Mark Feffer, March 5, 2012 53 seconds Github's been hacked. VentureBeat's Ben Popper writes: Github, the service that many professional programmers use to...