Online Game Development

This Is What Studios Look for in Game Developers

Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson, 

April 2, 2014

3 min read

Is there a golden ticket for software developers searching for jobs in games -- aside from mad math skills and passion?...

Sponsored: World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition Launch Trailer

Dice Staff, 

February 24, 2014

21 seconds

Tankers! It's time to roll out on your Xbox 360 consoles with World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition, free for Xbox Live...

How Shaders Can Render Awesome 3-D Graphics

David Bolton, 

February 21, 2014

4 min read

Creating 3-D graphics involves more than just creating objects -- you also have to tell the GPU how to best render...

Using Microsoft’s OneNote as a Creative Tool

David Bolton, 

January 17, 2014

5 min read

For many years I designed games, projects, to-do lists, and more using Wiki on a Stick, a single page wiki which worked...

PlayScript: Zynga Playing Clever

David Bolton, 

December 19, 2013

6 min read

The need to convert Web content to mobile has exploded with users' adoption of mobile technologies and mobile apps. And...

‘Fighting Fantasy’ as an App-Game Genre

David Bolton, 

December 12, 2013

5 min read

Those of a certain age who played games in the 1980s or 1990s may recall the Fighting Fantasy (FF) books. Published...

Creating a Multi-Player Game? Watch the Money

David Bolton, 

November 8, 2013

7 min read

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, indie developer David Colquohun started running his MMORTS game Ironfell in 2012. In...

Will Layoffs Turn Playforge Into a Zombie?

Dawn Kawamoto, 

October 31, 2013

3 min read

Mobile game developer The Playforge has cut some of its staff and plans to step away from developing new games,...

XNA is Dead; Long Live MonoGame

David Bolton, 

October 14, 2013

6 min read

Back in January, Microsoft announced it was going to phase out XNA, the development framework that powered Xbox...

Hiring Shows Quebec’s Growth as Gaming Hub

Myra Thomas, 

October 11, 2013

1 min read

Quebec is fast becoming a hub of gaming, courtesy of continued provincial funding in the sector. According to CTV...