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A community for people working on all aspects of Online Game Development, including genres, monetization, technical aspects like hosting, servers and clients, as well as programming. We’ll also get into characteristics of the industry, its growth, events, finances and, of course, creating games for Facebook. Following this community adds its articles and discussions to My Tech Feed.

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Electronic Arts Cuts Workforce

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Apr 25, 2013
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Electronics Arts has reportedly laid off as much as 10 percent of its workforce — about 900 people — in recent weeks as it seeks to restructure its business more tightly around mobile and other new technologies. The struggling gamemaker confirmed the cuts in a statement Thursday: In recent weeks, EA has aligned all elements of its organizational structure behind priorities in new technologies and mobile. This has led to some difficult decisions to reduce the workforce in some locations.… continue…

How to Land an Engineering Job at Turbine

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Apr 18, 2013
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Engineers looking to pivot their careers into the game industry would be wise to take note of Demetrius Comes. He’s an executive director of engineering at Turbine, a division of WB Games. But, perhaps more importantly, he’s an engineer who made the transition himself some 12 years ago after working in other sectors for nearly a decade. According to Comes, who spoke to Dice News at GDC, he finds engineers from the outside tend to be more disciplined when it… continue…

What I Learned at the Developers Conference

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Apr 15, 2013
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HTML5 Dev Con
Being in IT for so many years has made me wear a lot of hats: Web dev on some days, a designer on others and a guy who has friends ask him how to do “simple” things that aren’t all that simple. So it behooved me to grab a ticket and go to the HTML5 Developer’s conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Summary The conference was packed — literally in some cases, as people were bumping shoulders taking notes… continue…

Microsoft Games Hiring for Its Audio Team

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Apr 9, 2013
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Microsoft’s Games Studio needs to fill out its audio team, Senior Audio Director Greg Shaw told Dice News at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Redmond giant is looking for audio implementers and typically has 15 to 16 sound designers working in its Sound Lab. In addition to those team members, Shaw says the company usually has a need for programmers to modulate content, as well as higher level audio directors. Here’s what he told us when we… continue…

Final Chapter: LucasArts Employees Hold Wake

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Apr 7, 2013
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The bar’s name says it all: The Final Final. That’s where LucasArts employees gathered Friday night to hold a wake, following the death of their game studio earlier in the week. At Final Final in San Francisco, a large gathering of LucasArts employees and former LucasArts workers shared drinks and tears, from recalling memories of creating such notable cult games like Monkey Island to mourning the loss of games whose lives were cut short, like Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First… continue…
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