Online Game Development

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...